Seventh Session of UN-GGIM Gains Speed and Direction

摘要

This summer at the United Nations headquarters in New York, USA, 400 delegates from 90 countries showed made great progress in taking both practical and strategic action to implement and strengthen geospatial information management for the Member States. This included the development of frameworks, guidelines, norms, standards and capacities, all with a particular focus on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Following the adoption by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the resolution on 'Strengthening institutional arrangements on geospatial information management' in 2016, this year's Session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) showed that the adoption of that resolution has also strengthened the speed and direction for the process of UN-GGIM itself.