The UN established the Global Geospatial Information Commission

On July 29, at the request of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) voted through the decision to set up the Committee of Information Processing Experts. Global geospatial space to coordinate international dialogue on spatial data infrastructure and strengthen international cooperation in this area.

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The committee includes geospatial experts from all UN member countries. International organizations join the Committee as observers.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon affirmed that the United Nations must play a leading and coordinating role in the global geospatial information community.

Rapid technological advances in geospatial information technology and other related technologies have made geospatial information more and more easily updated and popular.

Geospatial information is used in many areas such as humanitarian, peace and security, contributing to addressing the environmental and development challenges facing humanity such as climate change and disaster. nature, hunger, epidemics, population fluctuations, food crisis and world economic crisis.

Therefore, building infrastructure to collect, evaluate, edit and disseminate geospatial information is important for many countries as well as road and telecommunications network.

However, the Secretary-General of the United Nations stressed that until now, the world has not yet had a global intergovernmental or multilateral mechanism that could play a leading role in developing an information development agenda Global space and promoting the use of this information serve efforts to overcome global development challenges.

The established Global Geospatial Information Processing Specialists Committee will provide a platform to develop effective strategies to help build and enhance countries' capacity for geospatial information, in particular. are developing countries.

It also compiles and disseminates best practices and experiences of national, regional and international agencies on geospatial information related to legal instruments, management models, technology standards . to help countries set up geospatial information infrastructure.