UN-GGIM

This week at the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre (#UNGGKIC), an expert consultation and meeting is focusing on discovering practical modalities to accelerate the implementation of the UN-IGIF at the country level. The five-day event 📅 is reviewing existing approaches, documents, guides, and resource materials, recognizing that geospatial information is essential for evidence-based policy development and informed decision-making. Coinciding with GIS Day, this consultation ensures that the UN-IGIF remains adaptable to dynamic national circumstances, emerging technologies, and innovative uses of geospatial information. Participants are emphasizing that the UN-IGIF must evolve with new national priorities, technologies, applications, and global development agendas for a more resilient and equitable world 🌏. This working meeting, or ‘meeting of the minds,’ brings together expert representatives from Cameroon, Indonesia, Panama, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Tonga, along with resource persons experienced in supporting the preparation of national action plans and substantive officers from the Secretariat. Fernand ISSERI | Antonius Wijanarto | Angel M. Davila T. | Mohammad Almabrook | Maroale Mimi Martha Chauke | @Seina Benedette Hanisi Vai | Lesley Arnold (FGCA) | Greg Scott | John Kedar | Andre Nonguierma | Dr Derek Clarke #unitednations #geospatial #igif #sustainabledevelopment #gisday

This week, the UN-GGIM Secretariat is convening a consultation workshop in 📍 Suva, Fiji with the Pacific Community-SPC, @Pacific Geospatial Surveying Council, and SDG Data Alliance. With national representatives from 11 Pacific SIDS, Australia, and national and regional partners, the Workshop ‘Identifying Problems, Finding Solutions’ is seeking to chart 🗺 a course for small islands 🏝 to enhance their national geospatial information arrangements, leveraging the UN-IGIF (#UNIGIF), to accelerate the implementation of the #SDGs and the newly adopted Antigua & Barbuda Agenda for SIDS (#ABAS). When identifying their many similar development and related capacity challenges participants recognized that the ABAS in listing concrete priorities and actions across 10 thematic areas, provides a high degree of mandate and action for the PGSC and Pacific #SIDS. This particularly relates to the thematic area ‘Improving #data collection, #analysis, and use’ in the following areas: 📈 Investing in States’ ability to ensure quality, accessible, timely and reliable, disaggregated data, according to national contexts 🌐 Strengthening and modernizing national #digital data infrastructure and systems 👩🔬 Enhancing science-based and #innovation for the collection, storage, analysis, disaggregation, dissemination and use of demographic data in SIDS, including the use of #geospatial technologies 🤝 Enhancing partnerships to facilitate peer-to-peer learning, including through the SIDS Centre of Excellence and existing statistical initiatives, including through regional organizations 🛰 Providing high-quality #spatial data, and working to downscale global datasets to provide accurate information for SIDS #unitednations #geospatial #sustainabledevelopment Meizyanne Hicks | Marika kalouniviti | Vaipo Mataora | Tony Kabasi | Peniasi Nakautoga | Richard Siataga | Nicholas Pion | telesia sila | Yumi Casualina Nafe | Faatasi Malologa | Tony Kanas | Viliami Folau | Sam Harper | Vani Koroisamanunu | @CheeHai Teo | Greg Scott | Andiswa Mlisa | Stuart Minchin | Charles Brigham | Adam Pfister

The 🔟 Session of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa 🌍 was held in 📍 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 📅 28 Oct - 01 Nov. #UNGGIMafrica The event was held under the theme "Harnessing the Potential of Geospatial Intelligence for a Disaster-Resilient Africa" on the use of geospatial information for disaster, resilience and for sustainable development #sdgs, progress over the continent on the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (#IGIF), and challenges of integration of geospatial and statistical information (#GSGF). The session was Chair by @South Africa National Department of Land Reform and Rural Development with Clinton Heimann and Maroale Mimi Martha Chauke, and Vice Chair Fernand ISSERI, with Secretariat for UN-GGIM Africa from Andre Nonguierma, Godheart Ayenika and Aster Denekew A joint segment on Geospatial and Statistics was also Chaired by Clinton Heimann of UN-GGIM Africa and @Kenneth Garcia of StatCom Africa. #unitednations #geospatial #africa #data #innovation #resilience #disaster #sustainabledevelopment #statistics

Today was the kick-off of the Expert Consultation and Meeting on Enhancing Geospatial Information Management Arrangements and Accelerating the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Saint John’s in Antigua and Barbuda, from 21-25 October 2024. The consultation and sub-regional workshop on the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework #igif with the theme ‘Identifying Problems, Finding Solutions’ seeks to understand the major challenges and specific geospatial information management needs of for Small Islands Developing States #sids in the Caribbean – and determine the necessary near and long-term solutions. The five-day event seeks to bring together leaders and senior executives from national geospatial information management entities in Member States in the Caribbean to engage and interact in search of strategic pathways for enhancing their nationally integrated geospatial information management arrangements, resources, capacities and leadership and implementing the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for SIDS towards a renewed and shared resilient prosperity in the Caribbean SIDS. The opening included remarks and presentations from Minister @Anthony Smith, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Fisheries & the Blue Economy of Antigua & Barbuda, Stephen Keppel, President, PVBLIC Foundation, ROLANDO OCAMPO, Director, Statistics Division, UN-ECLAC, Sofía Nilo Crisóstomo President of UN-GGIM: Américas, @Anya Ihsan Thomas, SIDS Unit United Nations, Greg Scott, Executive Director of the SDG Data Hub Alliance, and @CheeHai Teo, Secretariat of UN-GGIM. The event is jointly hosted by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, through its Surveys and Mapping Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Lands, Fisheries and Blue Economy, the SDG Data Alliance, and Secretariat of UN-GGIM. #unitednations #geospatial #data #climate #sdgs #UNGGIM #sustainabledevelopment #prosperity 

The Eleventh Session of the UN-GGIM Regional Committee for the Americas was held on 📅 7 October 2024, ahead of the High-level Forum on UN Global Geospatial Information Management, at the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) in Mexico City 📍 2️⃣ 8️⃣ countries from the Americas discussed and decided on strategies to advance work items such as strengthening #geodesy, #landadministration and management challenges, the #integration of statistical and geospatial data and the implementation of the UN Integrated Geospatial Information Framework #IGIF. #Geospatial #data, #science, #innovation and #technology helps countries to strengthen national data infrastructure to manage their resources, make informed policy-decisions for national priorities, and address global challenges. The session was opened by Sofía Nilo Crisóstomo Chair of the UN-GGIM: Américas from IDE Chile , Paloma Merodio organizer hosting the meeting from National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI), Deirdre Dalpiaz Bishop new Co-Chair of UN-GGIM from U.S. Census Bureau, and Stefan Schweinfest of the United Nations responsible for the UN-GGIM Secretariat. #unitednations #geospatial #UNGGIM #UNGGIMAmericas #sustainabledevelopment

7️⃣🌎📢 The Seventh High-level Forum on Global Geospatial Information Management is starting today in Mexico City, Mexico, under the theme “Accelerating Implementation; Achieving Resilience” from 8 to 10 October 2024! Thanks to National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) for organizing and hosting the event! Experts from around the world will discuss how geospatial information can contribute to accelerating the implementation of national priorities, the Sustainable Development Goals, and addressing global challenges, leaving no one behind! Thanks to the speakers, moderators and video statement contributing to this event: Alicia Bárcena, Bob Rae, Peter Grohmann, @Li Junhua, Bert Kroese, Ian Schuler, @Mario Maniewicz, Paloma Merodio, Deirdre Dalpiaz Bishop, Ingrid Vanden Berghe, Belinda Arunarwati Margono, Maroale Mimi Martha Chauke, Valrie Grant, MSc, GISP, MBA, GCB.D, Tim Trainor, Sofía Nilo Crisóstomo, @Walter Myers, Tania Villa, Olivia Powell, @Li Pengde, @Bo Wang, David Henderson, @Michelle Saint Clair, @Prince Emmanuel de Merode, James Norris, Maria Silvia Céspedes Sepúlveda, Clinton Heimann, Blanca Estela Sánchez Reyes, Steven Krekels, MACARENA PEREZ GARCIA, Viliami Folau, @Maria Abigail Timbawala, David Elegbede, Miriam Gonzalez 🌎🛰🚀, Patricia Solis, Fernand BALE, Frank Tierolff, Joep Crompvoets, Celina Lee, Linda Peters, Pierre Chrzanowski, Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse, Dr.Eng, Mohammed Al Sayel, Mzwanele Nyhontso, Melanie Hutchinson, Thibaud Henin, Kevin Pomfret, Joseph Seppi, Mollie Van Gordon #unitednations #geospatial #data #climate #sdgs #UNGGIM #informaciongeoespacial #informationgéospatiale

📢 Geodesy in Africa at the Science Summit https://lnkd.in/ebPiu5_5 📆 Friday 27 September 2024 | 8:30 am – 3:00 pm ET (UTC-4) 📍 on-site at CURE, 345 Park Avenue South, New York, USA 💻 online 🌍 Africa Rising: Shaping our Common Future Through Geodesy. Implementing the UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/69/266 "A Global Geodetic Reference Frame for Sustainable Development" featuring the United Nations Global Geodetic Centre of Excellence Event details below and here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/gb92x7Nm General Assembly Resolution: 📄 https://lnkd.in/gEbN_mFq #unitednations #geospatial #geodesy #data #science #sustainabledevelopment #StrongerTogether

The Eighth meeting of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information (EGISGI), jointly with the seventh meeting of the Working Group on Geospatial Information (WGGI) of the IAEG-SDGs, is held this week, 17-19 September 2024, hosted by UN-Habitat at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya. Jointly chaired by Claudio Stenner, IBGE Brazil, co-Chair of EG-ISGI, and @Mary Smyth, CSO (Central Statistics Office Ireland) co-Chair of WGGI, the meeting discussed and advanced global to national issues on geo-statistical integration and the role of geography within the Sustainable Development Goals. The meeting considered many issues relevant to both groups, including national experiences in the implementation of the Global Statistical 📊Geospatial 🌍 Framework and the SDGs Geospatial Roadmap; agreeing on the need to advance guidance on the #disaggregation of #statistics by #geography and support the #localization of the #SDG; and discussed the many benefits of the United Nations Integrated Geospatial Information Framework #IGIF for the Statistical Domain. Both groups underscored how to enhance the role and use of geography and geospatial information to support countries in addressing national priorities and implementing the SDGs, and called for the implementation of the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework by National Statistical Offices and National Geospatial Information Agencies for the opportunities afforded by integrated statistical and geospatial information to be fully realized. During the meeting, Olivia Powell, Office of National Statistics, United Kingdom, was introduced as the new Co-Chair of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information, joining Claudio Stenner, the current Co-Chair. Thank you to the @Global Urban Observatory at UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) for hosting. More details on the event at: 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8XixE5S Access the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/ed8x9Ad2 Access the Geospatial SDG Roadmap here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/egW4J3Vk #unitednations #UNGGIM #data #innovation #integration #sustainabledevelopment

🎬 Final clap for the 1️⃣ 4️⃣ Fourteenth session (#unggim14) of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM #unggim) 🌎 🌍 🌏 as it came to a close last Friday ! The session brought together: 🌍 75 countries 👓 80 observers 🎙 340 participants and many contributions 📝 The draft decisions for the session are here: 👉 Decisions Part I: https://lnkd.in/e4YEWsxK 👉 Decisions Part II: https://lnkd.in/eGat_Y_n 📺 The webcast of the sessions are here: 1st meeting (Wed 7 Aug, AM): https://lnkd.in/dtc6nvCC 2nd meeting (Wed 7 Aug, PM): https://lnkd.in/e73czJMf 3rd meeting (Thu 8 Aug, AM): https://lnkd.in/ePwuPciH 4th meeting (Thu 8 Aug, PM): https://lnkd.in/ezHhzFVA 5th meeting (Fri 9 Aug, AM): https://lnkd.in/eunvPyza 6th meeting (Fri 9 Aug, PM): https://lnkd.in/eqBZ5KQ7 The Committee of Experts will now turn to its inter-sessional work and sets the date or its Fifteenth session on 6-8 August 2025 with its provisional agenda 📄 as https://lnkd.in/eMbXxEf5 #unitednations #geospatial #sustainabledevelopment #innovation #digital #data

At its Fourteenth session, the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) 🌎 🌍 🌏 thanked its outgoing Bureau, Ms. Ingrid Vanden Berghe, Ms. Paloma Merodio, Mr. Fernand BALE, Mr. Kamal Outghouliast, and welcomed the new Bureau as: Co-Chairs: Ms. Ingrid Vanden Berghe, NGI - National Geographic Institute, Belgium Mr. Fernand BALE, BNETD-Bureau National d'Études Techniques et de Développement, Côte d'Ivoire Ms. Deirdre Dalpiaz Bishop, U.S. Census Bureau, United States Rapporteur : Ms. @Meizyanne Hicks, Ministry of Lands and Mineral Resources, Fiji More information on the session, visit 👉 : https://lnkd.in/dh3PE8pW 📌 at UN Headquarters, New York USA #️⃣ #UNGGIM14 #unitednations #geospatial #sustainabledevelopment #innovation #digital #data