Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative - CARIGEO

8 Apr 2021 | Event

Work area(s)

Statistics

Topic(s)

Geospatial information Disasters 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
<span>Caribbean Geospatial Development Initiative - CARIGEO </span>

Event information

UN-GGIM: Américas organized this side event within the framework of the twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC.

Date

8 Apr 2021, 13:30 - 14:45
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Event type

Meetings and technical symposiums

Participation

Open participation

Address

Chile
Twentieth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC

 

CARIGEO, is a collaborative initiative that seeks to empower the countries and territories of the Caribbean to advance the greater use and sharing of geospatial and statistical information to support improved decision making for sustainable national and regional development.

The CARIGEO initiative is being built on the gains of the “Project for the Strengthening of Spatial Data Infrastructures in Member States and Territories of the Association of Caribbean States” (Caribbean Project) sponsored by the Government of Mexico with support from the Association of Caribbean States and the University of the West Indies, Campus St. Augustine, between 2014 and 2018. Importantly the CARIGEO initiative was designed to be aligned with the regional spatial data infrastructure objectives and global frameworks, such as the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF), the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework (GSGF), UNGEGN Resolution I/4 on National Standardization of Geographical Names, and the Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters (E/RES/2018/14), which should ensure that projects to be implemented will be fit-for-purpose within the context of the Caribbean’s specific conditions.

 

Schedule

 

 

8 Apr 2021

Opening Remarks

» Moderadora / Moderator: Cecille Blake, UNSD, Secretaría UN-GGIM

  • Paloma Merodio, Presidenta/President, UN-GGIM: Américas
The integration of geospatial and statistical information – the value proposition
  • Stefan Schweinfest, Director, División de Estadísticas de Naciones Unidas / UN Statistics Division
The CARIGEO Initiative
Caribbean relevant climate change and disasters indicators for evidence-based sustainable development policies
Tracking Sargassum in the Tropical Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. NOAA Data Collection Tools
  • Joaquin Triñanes, Coast Watch Caribe y Golfo de México - NOAA /Coast Watch Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico node, NOAA
    NOAA Data Collection Tools
Geospatial/geostatistical information to support sustainable development strategies or priority issues

Closing Remarks

  • Rolando Ocampo, División de Estadísticas de la CEPAL / Statistics Division of ECLAC

 

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