ECOSOC established the Committee of Experts as the apex intergovernmental mechanism for making joint decisions and setting directions with regard to the production, availability and use of geospatial information within national, regional and global policy frameworks. Led by United Nations Member States, UN-GGIM aims to address global challenges regarding the use of geospatial information, including in the development agendas, and to serve as a body for global policymaking in the field of geospatial information management
Programmes
- Strengthening geospatial information management
- Contributions to the global geospatial information agenda
- Nationally integrated geospatial information management
- Geospatial information for Sustainable Development
- Geodesy
- Integration of statistical and geospatial information
- Land administration and management
- Geospatial information and services for disasters
- Marine geospatial information
- Policy and legal frameworks
- Implementation of geospatial standards
Resources
Meetings and events
Upcoming
- Third Plenary Meeting of the High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework 22 - 23 January 2024 Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Expert Consultation and Meetings on Enhancing geospatial information management arrangements and accelerating the implementation of the SDGs 22 - 26 January 2024 Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Eleventh Meeting of the UN-GGIM Arab states Committee 4 - 8 February 2024 Doha, Qatar
- Second expert meeting of the Working Group on Policy and Legal Frameworks for Geospatial Information Management incorporating the workshop on Authoritative fit-for-purpose geospatial data for crisis 20 -22 February 2024 Leuven, Belgium
- Sixth expert meeting of the Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information and International Seminar on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management with the theme "effective and integrated marine geospatial information management" 4 - 8 March 2024 Bali, Indonesia,
- Fourteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management 7 - 9 August 2024 UNHQ, New York
Recent
- SDG Action Weekend Side Event: Geospatial Information: Accelerating Implementation of the SDGs Sunday 17 September 2023, 13:30-15:00 Conf. Room 6, UNHQ, New York
- Thirteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management 2 - 4 August 2023 UNHQ, New York
- Global Webinar on The Future Geospatial Ecosystem: What is the Role of UN-GGIM? 12 June 2023
- First Meeting of the UN-GGCE International Advisory Committee 29 - 31 March 2023 UN Campus, Bonn, Germany
- Third Plenary Meeting of the Subcommittee on Geodesy 29 - 31 March 2023 UN Campus, Bonn, Germany
- Fourth expert meeting of the Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information 30 January - 3 February 2023 Genoa, Italy
- Seventh meeting of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information and Regional Workshop on Integrating Statistical and Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development 1 - 2 December 2022 UNECLAC, Santiago, Chile
- Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress 10 - 14 October 2022 Hyderabad, India