United Nations Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Week 2025 (UN GeoNow 2025)
Deqing, China 20 -24 October 2025
Twelfth session of the United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas and Workshop on United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF)
Santiago, Chile 3 - 7 November 2025
Sixteenth session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management
UNHQ, New York 5 - 7 August 2026
Third United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 16 – 19 November 2026
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
- United Nations Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Week 2025 (UN GeoNow 2025), 20-24 October 2025, Deqing, China
- Twelfth session of the United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas and Workshop on United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF), 3 - 7 November 2025, Santiago, Chile
- Sixteenth session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, 5 - 7 August 2026, UNHQ, New York
- Third United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress, 16 – 19 November 2026, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Recent
- Third expert meeting of the working group on policy and legal frameworks for geospatial information management, including addressing issues related to authoritative and reliable geospatial data and emergent technologies, 7 - 9 October 2025, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Expert Consultation and Meeting on Enhancing Geospatial Information Management Arrangements and Accelerating Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, together with the Sub-regional Workshop on the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (UN-IGIF) for Central Asia, South Asia, and neighboring countries, 15-19 September 2025, Astana, Kazakhstan
- 2025 Meeting of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (UN-GGKIC), 3 August 2025, UNHQ, New York
- Sixth plenary meeting of the High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, 4 - 5 August 2025, UNHQ, New York
- Fifteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, 6 - 8 August 2025, UNHQ, New York
- 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)
- UN-GGCE Geodesy Capacity Development Workshop for Africa on Transitioning to a Modern Geospatial Reference System, 19 - 23 May 2025, Bonn, Germany
- Geospatial Leadership Training and Global Forum for the Next Generation of the Sustainability Agenda, 1 - 2 April 2025, Melbourne, Australia