2025 Meeting of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC)
7-8 May 2025 (virtual), 3 August 2025, UNHQ, New York
Fifteenth session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
UNHQ, New York 6 - 8 August 2025
United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence (UN-GGCE)
United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC)
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
- 2025 Meeting of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC), 7-8 May 2025 (virtual), 3 August 2025, UNHQ, New York
- UN-GGCE Geodesy Capacity Development Workshop for Africa on Transitioning to a Modern Geospatial Reference System, 19 - 23 May 2025, Bonn, Germany
- Fifteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, 6 - 8 August 2025, UNHQ, New York
Recent
- Geospatial Leadership Training and Global Forum for the Next Generation of the Sustainability Agenda, 1 - 2 April 2025, Melbourne, Australia
- 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 (UN-IGIF) for Southern Africa, 24 – 28 March 2025, Maputo, Mozambique
- Joint UN-GGIM Subcommittee on Geodesy 5th Plenary; 3rd UN-GGCE International Advisory Committee; 3rd UN-GGCE Steering Committee Meeting, 10 - 14 March 2025, Bonn, Germany
- Global webinar “Exploring the wider digital ecosystem”, 18 - 19 March 2025 (online)
- Geodesy Capacity Development Workshop for Europe on Transitioning to a Modern Geospatial Reference System, 17 - 21 February 2025, Bonn, Germany
- Fifth plenary meeting of the High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework and the meeting of the Bureau and its Expanded Bureau of the Committee of Experts, 2 - 4 February 2025, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- UN-GGCE International Workshop on the Integration of Terrestrial, Maritime, Built and Cadastral Domains "Joining Land and Sea", 2 - 5 December 2024, Bogor, Indonesia
- 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
- 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, Mexico City, Meéxico
- 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
Annual sessions
- Fifteenth session
- Fourteenth session
- Thirteenth session
- Twelfth session
- Eleventh session
- Past sessions