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
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