SEVENTH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON GLOBAL GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, 31 JULY - 4 AUGUST 2017, NEW YORK

SIDE EVENT DOCUMENTS

• Academic Network, 31 July 2017

Session 1

• Secure Land Rights and Smart Cities - Making it Work for Sustainable Development, Prof. Abbas Rabajifard
  
• Major drivers, opportunities and challenges: A global UN-GGIM perspective, Mr. Greg Scott
  
• The Role of Surveyors and Spatial Professionals in Sustainable Development Secure Land Rights and Smart Cities, Prof. Chryssy Potsiou
  
• Expert Group on Land Administration and Management contribution to the SDG’s, Mr. Kees de Zeeuw
  
• SDG: Major Drivers, Opportunities and Challenge UN-GGIM: Americas Perspective, Mr. Rolando Ocampo Alcántar
  

Session 2

• Land Tenure and Smart Future Cities, Prof. Huayi Wu
• Kadaster, Mr. Kees de Zeeuw
• Smart Citizens, Ms. Maria Antonia Brovelli
• Smart Cities for All; Strategic Pathways, Ms. Maryam Rabiee
• Safe, Resilient Future Cities, Ms. Denise McKenzie
• Governance for a smart world, Prof. Joep Crompvoets

Session 3

• Measuring, Monitoring and Comparing SDG Indicators, Prof. Abbas Rajabifard
• The Geospatial Capacity Building Ecosystem, Mr. Joef Strobl

Session 4

• Legal and Policy Considerations in the Context of Smart Cities, Mr. Harlan Onsrud

• Legal and Policy Frameworks, 31 July 2017

• Legal and Policy Frameworks for Geospatial Information Management, Mr. Kevin Pomfret
• Machine-readable Data Release, Policy, Dr. Lesley Arnold
• Managing Liability in Open Geospatial Data, Ms. Diana Marina Cooper

• 2020 Round of Censuses and GSGF, 31 July 2017

• The 2020 Round of Population and Housing Census and the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework, Mr. Martin Brady
• United Nations Statistics Division Programme in Support of the 2020 Round of Population and Housing Censuses, Mr. Srdjan Mrkić
• Use of Geospatial Information in Support of Census Operations, Ms. Meryem Demirci
• Mexico's National Geostatistical Framework, and Geospatial Tools for the 2020 Population and Housing Census, Mr. Rolando Ocampo Alcántar
• The Argentine Republic Case, Mr. Sergio Cimbaro
• Geocoding the 2021 EU wide census, Mr. Gunter SCHÄFER

• Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters , 31 July 2017

• Activities of UN-GGIM-AP Working Group 2 in relation to the implementation of Strategic Framework, Mr. Toru Nagayama
• Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters (GIS4D), Mr. Tae Hyung KIM
• Geospatial IM andDisaster Risk Management: What’s New? Innovative Research and Practices, Mr. Tyler S. Radford
• Progress on the Development of the Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters, Dr. Peter N. Tiangco

• UN-GGIM & World Bank Forum on Geospatial Information for Development, 31 July 2017

• The Data Challenge: Bridging the Geospatial Digital Divide, Mr. Greg Scott
• A Joint Vision for Developing an Overarching Geospatial Framework, Mr. Greg Scott
• Geospatial Information for Development: World Bank SDI Toolset – Assisting Country Action Plans, Ms. Kathrine Kelm and Mr. Andrew Coote

• Marine Geospatial Information, 31 July 2017

• Marine Geospatial Information, Mr. John Nyberg
• The International Hydrographic Organization, Mr. Robert Ward
• Blue Economy, conservation and marine planning in Seychelles, Mr. Ronald Jean Jumeau

• UN-GGIM:Africa, 1 August 2017

• UN-GGIM:Africa, Mr. Andre Nonguierma

• 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 August 2017

• The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development “Where is the Data?”, Mr. Greg Scott
• Addressing the data needs for the follow-up and review of the SDGs, Ms. Yongyi Min
• Geospatial technologies for monitoring the Urban related SDGs-UN-Habitat experiences, Mr. Robert P Ndugwa
• System of Environmental Economic Accounting, Ms. Alessandra Alfieri
• Monitoring the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda: the importance of geospatial information, Ms. Francesco Gaetani
• Space for Sustainable Development ESA’s contribution to the Where, What, and How of Data, Dr. Christoph Aubrecht
• Data and information for SDGs, Mr. Andre Nonguierma
• Measuring and Monitoring SDGs: The Mexican Experience, Mr. Julio A. Santaella
• Where is the Data, Mr. Malakai Finau
• Articulating the Data Needs for SDGs ‘Collaboration in Ireland’, Mr. Colin Bray
• Where is the Data, Dr. Peter N. Tiangco
• Measuring the SDGs : Challenges in the environmental domain, Dr Stuart Minchin
• “Where is the Data?”: The Africa Perspective, Mr. Sultan Mohammed Alya
• Reporting Status, Mr. Tim Trainor
• Geospatial and Earth Observation Data for the SDGs, Mr. Aditya Agrawal
• Earth Observations, for the Benefit of Humankind, Mr. Steven Ramage
• Every person deserves the chance to live a healthy, productive life, Mr. Vince Seaman
• Data Solutions and Platforms for the SDGs: The POPGRID Data Collective, Dr. Robert S. Chen
• Where Everywhere ? Making spatial part of the web, Mr. Ed Parsons
• Where is the Data?, Ms. Carmelle J. Terborgh
• Data Solutions and Platforms for SDG’s, Mr. Kumar Navulur Sr.
• Data Solutions and a Platform for use to Meet UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, Mr. Steven Hagan

• Global Geodetic Reference Frame , 1 August 2017

• Adopting Global Geodetic Reference Frame in the Pacifics, Mr. Faatasi Malologa

• National Institutional Arrangements, 1 August 2017

• Plenary Session, Mr. Antonio Arozarena
• Trends in National Institutional Arrangements, Mr. Antonio Arozarena
• Task Group 2 (TG2) Founding Structures, Dissemination systems and Data Policies Models, Mr. Carlos A. Guerrero Elemen
• Sharing Good Practices on Systems for Information Exchange and Sharing, Mr. Lim Liyang
• Current situation of the work, Prof. Joep Crompvoets

• Land Administration and Management, 1 August 2017

• Land Administration and Management, Mr. Kees de Zeeuw and Mr. Mahashe Chaka
• UN-GGIM expert group on Land administration and Management Delft, Mr. Silvano Tjong-Ahin
• Land tenure security in Canada Preliminary findings, Mr. B Ballantyne, E Tompkins & Mr. S Rogers
• Tenure atlas of the world, Mr. Joep Crompvoets

• UN-GGIM Americas, 2 August 2017

• Academic Network Americas - ANA, Ms. Rosario Casanova