User:Cnburnett

Charles N Burnett (born in Auckland, New Zealand) is a Victoria, British Columbia Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science and IT entrepreneur.

Community-Based Information Systems
Community-Based Information Systems or simply Community Information Systems (CIS) are IT systems that support goals of indigenous poeple. has been used for over 3 years, primarily on the west coast of North America, to describe flexible software frameworks that support a set of domain users. The domain's practice can be very broad, but the over-arching themes are community building and indigenous governance. (CIS) are a type of local information systems, LIS, designed to to bring location-tagged knowledge to a variety of community decision-making and knowledge transfer modes.

The primary functions for CIS is to provide a secure and accessible knowledge base to a wide range of community users including managers, policy makers, front-line staff, geographic information system (GIS) specialists, and citizens. A secondary function is to provide analysis tools that parse the knowledge base into decision-point-ready formats.

The University of Victoria's First Nations Stewardship Tools project released a set of Drupal Features collectively called a CIS in 2011. This Drupal-based CIS sits atop the open-source LAMP stack.