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
- Fourteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, 7 - 9 August 2024, UNHQ, New York
- Seventh High-level Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management, 8 - 10 October 2024, México City, México
Recent
- 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States side event: Geospatial Technology for Sustainable Development of SIDS, Room 1, American University of Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda, 28 May 2024, 12:00 to 13:30 (AST)
- 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States virtual side event: Leveraging geospatial information for climate resilience, 29 May 2024, 08:00 a.m. to 08:30 a.m. (UTC-4hrs)
- Expert Consultation on Strengthening the Global Geodesy Supply Chain, 22-23 April 2024, UN campus, Bonn, Germany
- 2024 meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre, 17 - 18 April 2024, Deqing, China
- Fifth meeting of the Expert Group on Land Administration and Management incorporating the Second International Seminar on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management with the theme "Effective Land Administration", 8 - 11 April 2024, Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Second Meeting of the UN-GGCE International Advisory Committee and the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Subcommittee on Geodesy, 18 - 21 March 2024, UN campus, Bonn, Germany
- Sixth expert meeting of the Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information and International Seminar on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management with the theme "effective and integrated marine geospatial information management", 4 - 8 March 2024, Bali, Indonesia
- Second expert meeting of the Working Group on Policy and Legal Frameworks for Geospatial Information Management incorporating the workshop on Authoritative fit-for-purpose geospatial data for crisis, 20 -22 February 2024, Leuven, Belgium
- Eleventh plenary meeting of the Regional Committee on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for the Arab States (UN-GGIM: Arab States), 4 - 8 February 2024, Doha, Qatar
- Third Plenary Meeting of the High-level Group of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, 22 - 23 January 2024, Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Expert Consultation and Meetings on Enhancing geospatial information management arrangements and accelerating the implementation of the SDGs, 22 - 26 January 2024, Aguascalientes, Mexico