Design an infographic for Canada's new maritime awareness information system

Transport Canada

We'd like to tell Canadians about the project in an easy-to-understand graphic. We'd also like Canadians to get excited about the potential of using this maritime awareness system in their lives and the many ways it might be useful. Various types of data and information will be included in the system and we'd like to give the viewer a sense of that information (e.g., weather, vessel traffic, ice, wildlife locations, sensitive areas, etc.).

We're looking to tell a story that could include: how the system might be useful; the actual way in which it functions; the data that it could include; how the user actually uses the system (online, etc.); and, information on the process for developing the system, highlighting the importance of our partnership with the pilot communities.

We're flexible and very open to creative ideas, but the graphic could contain elements such as: a map of Canada with our partner community locations identified; something that summarizes the process to develop the system; an indication of "how" it's used (possibly visually captured by someone using it in a number of ways such as PC, phone, tablet); an indication of the type of data that could be included (ice data, wind data, weather data, wildlife locations, vessel traffic, etc.); a visualization of the system interface itself (it's a GIS product); and, a visualization of how the data flows into the system (e.g. vessel information from on-board devices are captured by satellites and on-land towers and transmitted to the system).

The locations of the pilot partner communities are as follows: (1) Truro, Nova Scotia; (2) Nain, Nunatsiavut; (3) Essipit, Quebec; (4) Kahnawake, Quebec; (5) Cambridge Bay, Nunavut; (6) Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories; (7) Haida Nation, British Columbia; (8) Gitga'at Nation, British Columbia; (9&10) [note this is a partnership] T'Sou-ke First Nation & Pacheedat First Nation, British Columbia.

To note - the pictures included in this brief are examples/samples only - not everything needs to be included in the infographic.

The initiative itself is complex but we want to capture it in a way that is straight-forward and simple to understand at a glance. This means balancing the need to avoid "too much" happening in the graphic while still capturing the initiative overview.
Once the English content is finalized, Transport Canada will translate the text to French and request the designer finalize a matching French version.