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
- Thirteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management 2 - 4 August 2023 UNHQ, New York
- First Meeting of the UN-GGCE International Advisory Committee and Third Plenary Meeting of the Subcommittee on Geodesy 29 - 31 March 2023 UN Campus, Bonn, Germany
- First Meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre 20 - 22 April 2023 Deqing, China
Recent
- 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
- Twelfth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management 3 - 5 August 2022 UNHQ, New York
- Fourth meeting of the Expert Group on Land Administration and Management and International Seminar on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management 16 - 20 May 2022 Singapore
- Third Expert Meeting of the Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information and International Seminar on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management 9 - 13 May 2022 Singapore
- First Plenary Meeting of the High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework 26 - 28 April 2022 UNHQ, New York
- Webinar series on Integrated Marine Geospatial Information Management 26 - 29 October 2021
- Virtual Expert Meetings on Policy and Legal Frameworks for Geospatial Information Management 15, 27 and 29 April 2021
- Global Geodesy Forum "The Power of Where - The Value of Geodesy to Society", Earth Day, Thursday, 22 April 2021, 10:30 hrs. - 12:00 hrs. (UTC)/06:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. (USA-EDT/UTC-4)