Expert Consultation and Meeting on Enhancing Geospatial Information Management Arrangements and Accelerating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals together with the Sub-regional Workshop on United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework for the Pacific island counties and territories
Suva, Fiji 11 - 15 November 2024
United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence
UN Campus, Bonn, Germany
United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (Centre)
Deqing, China
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
- Expert Consultation and Meeting on Enhancing Geospatial Information Management Arrangements and Accelerating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals together with the Sub-regional Workshop on United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework for the Pacific island counties and territories, 11 - 15 November 2024, Suva, Fiji
- UN-GGCE International Workshop on the Integration of Terrestrial, Maritime, Built and Cadastral Domains "Joining Land and Sea", 2 - 5 December 2024, Bogor, Indonesia
Recent
- United Nations Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Week 2024, 21 - 24 October 2024, Deqing, China
- Expert Consultation and Meeting on Enhancing Geospatial Information Management Arrangements and Accelerating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals together with the Sub-regional Workshop on United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework for the Caribbean, 21 - 25 October 2024, Saint Johns, Antigua and Barbuda
- Seventh High-level Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management, 8 - 10 October 2024, México City, México
- Eighth meeting of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information jointly with the seventh meeting of the Working Group on Geospatial Information of the IAEG-SDGs, 17 - 19 September 2024, Nairobi, Kenya
- Fourteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, 7 - 9 August 2024, UNHQ, New York
- Fourth plenary of the High-level group on the UN Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, 5 - 6 August 2024, UNHQ, New York
- 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States side event: Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development of SIDS, Room 1, American University of Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda, 28 May 2024, 12:00 to 13:30 (AST)
- 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States virtual side event: Leveraging geospatial information for climate resilience, 29 May 2024, 08:00 a.m. to 08:30 a.m. (UTC-4hrs)
- Expert Consultation on Strengthening the Global Geodesy Supply Chain, 22-23 April 2024, UN campus, Bonn, Germany
- 2024 meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre, 17 - 18 April 2024, Deqing, China
- Fifth meeting of the Expert Group on Land Administration and Management incorporating the Second International Seminar on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management with the theme "Effective Land Administration", 8 - 11 April 2024, Aguascalientes, Mexico