Joint Meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas and UN-GGIM-Americas
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5 Apr 2017, 15:00 - 18:00Event type
The Joint meeting of the member countries of the Statistical Conference of the Americas (SCA) and members of the Regional Committee of United Nations on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas) was held in Santiago, Chile, on April 5, 2017, within the framework of the Sixteenth meeting of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC.
This meeting marks the first global gathering to formally integrate the statistical and geospatial communities to work on a common agenda.
Among the results of this meeting, the role of ECLAC as a technical secretariat to facilitate dialogue between national statistical institutes and cartographic agencies was emphasized, and with regard to a joint action plan, the definition of a roadmap to implement the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework at the national level was agreed upon, overcoming institutional and technical barriers.
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Schedule
5 Abr 2017
Opening session
- Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of ECLAC (Spanish)
- Mario Palma, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC
- Rolando Ocampo, President of UN-GGIM: Americas
ECOSOC Resolution for the Strengthening of UN-GGIM
Cecille Blake, UN-GGM Secretariat
ECOSOC Resolution on Strengthening UN-GGIM, the Process and Implications
ECLAC Resolution for the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information in the Americas
Pascual Gerstenfeld, CEPAL, Secretariado CEA
Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information (EG-ISGI). Statistical Commission - UN-GGIM
Rolando Ocampo, Co-chair del EG-ISGI
Integración de Información Estadística y Geográfica
Progress and Perspectives of the Geospatial Statistical Framework for the Americas
Carlos Augusto Molina, Delegado del DANE, Coordinador del GT-ISGI Américas
Marco Estadístico y Geoespacial para las Américas (MEGA)
Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information in Agenda 2030 in the Americas
Sergio Cimbaro
Caso de la República Argentina
Opportunities for the integration of statistical and geospatial information: the Censal Round 2020
Pascual Gerstenfeld, ECLAC, SCA Secretariat
Consultations and comments by Member States
Proposals for joint work steps and expected results for the next meeting of the Statistical Conference of the Americas
Conclusions and closure
