The Third Session of the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) will bring together geospatial experts from around the world to advance the development and use of geospatial data, information and tools to support global sustainability. Participants are expected to discuss: future trends in geospatial information; a global geodetic reference frame; trends in national institutional arrangements in geospatial information management; the status of a global map for sustainable development; legal and policy frameworks; establishment and implement of standards for the global geospatial information community; linking geospatial information to statistics; integration of land and marine geospatial information; and activities related to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20). Following the two-day session, a one-day training session will be offered on geospatial data collection and management.  

dates: 24-26 July 2013   venue: Corn Exchange Building   location: Cambridge, UK   contact: Amor Laaribi, GGIM Secretariat   phone: 1-212-963-3042   fax: 1-212-963-9851   e-mail: laaribi@un.org   www: http://ggim.un.org/ggim_committee.html