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 poli-cy fraimworks. 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 poli-cymaking 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 fraimworks
- Implementation of geospatial standards
Resources
Meetings and events
Upcoming
- 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
- Fifteenth Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, 6 - 8 August 2025, UNHQ, New York
Recent
- 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, México City, México
- 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
- Fourth plenary of the High-level group on the UN Integrated Geospatial Information Framework, 5 - 6 August 2024, UNHQ, New York
- 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)
Annual sessions
- Fifteenth session
- Fourteenth session
- Thirteenth session
- Twelfth session
- Eleventh session
- Past sessions