The Ninth Session of the United Nations Regional Committee for Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas) was held in Santiago, at ECLAC headquarters, from November 28 to 30, 2022. The meeting was organized between UN-GGIM: Americas and ECLAC, which fulfills the role of Technical Secretariat.

The objective of this meeting was to share progress and project future actions of the work agenda of this regional committee, focused on strengthening national geospatial information management processes; support the integration of statistical and geospatial information; and promote the use of geospatial information to support disaster response. Likewise, to examine opportunities for collaboration between countries and also from other geospatial organizations in the region that will participate in the event.

This committee is part of the regional architecture of the United Nations global body on this matter (UN-GGIM), which reports to ECOSOC and has a rich work agenda focused on strengthening the use of geospatial information to support decision-making and public policies, with special attention to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. UN-GGIM: Americas was created in 2013 with the objective of strengthening national geospatial information management processes in the countries of the region, based on the implementation of the guidelines generated by the UN-GGIM Committee of Experts at the global level. The presidency for the period 2021-2025 falls on Chile through the National System for Coordination of Territorial Information (SNIT) of the Ministry of National Assets of Chile, the agency that leads the development of the national geospatial data infrastructure (IDE-Chile).

This was the first time that this regional meeting is held at ECLAC premises, with the participation of delegations from 22 countries, composed of the directors of national geospatial agencies and other expert organizations in the field.

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Seventh meeting of the Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information

This team of specialists, created in 2013 under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission and UN-GGIM, proposes guidelines, methodolog...

Programme of work

28 November 2022

  • Welcome and opening remarks

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    ▪ Sofía Nilo Crisóstomo, President of UN-GGIM: Americas.

    ▪ Rolando Ocampo, Director of the ECLAC Statistics Division.

    ▪ Stefan Schweinfest, Director of the United Nations Statistics Division.

    ▪ Paloma Merodio, Co-President UN-GGIM

    ▪ Javiera Toro Cáceres, Ministra de Bienes Nacionales, Chile

    Presentation(s)

    • - Verificación quórum y aprobación de la Agenda / Quorum verification and approval of the Agenda

  • Session 1: Presentation of regional reports

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    Presentation(s)

  • Session 2: New tools for regional geospatial information dissemination

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    Presentation(s)

  • Session 3: Situation, needs and challenges of the Member States of the Regional Committee

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    - Moderator: Sofía Nilo Crisóstomo, UN-GGIM: Americas

    Presentation(s)

  • Session 4: Workshop on Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF)

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    Presentation(s)

29 November 2022

  • Sesión 5: Regional Collaboration

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    »  Presentation of the day's agenda

    Presentation(s)

    •      » Introducción / Introduction

      Sergio Cimbaro, Vocal de América del Sur / Vocal of South America, UN-GGIM: Americas

    • CARIGEO looking forward

      Simone M. Lloyd, GISP Jamaica Focal Point & Caribbean Vocal

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    • Aportes desde la Red Académica UN-GGIM: Américas / Contributions from Academic Network UN-GGIM: Americas

      Rosario Casanova, Red Académica UN-GGIM: Américas / Academic Network UN-GGIM: Americas

      File

    • Private Sector Network: updates and the way forward

      Valeri Grant, Private Sector Network for the Americas

      File

    •      » Intervenciones de los países / Country interventions

      Sergio Cimbaro, Vocal de América del Sur / Vocal of South America, UN-GGIM: Americas

    •      » Introducción / Introduction

      Rosario Casanova, Red Académica UN-GGIM: Américas / Academic Network UN-GGIM: Americas

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    • SIRGAS and GRFA WG UN-GGIM:Americas interactions for sustainable geodesy in the Americas

      Sonia Maria Alves Costa, Geocentric Reference System for the Americas, SIRGAS, Brazil

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    • Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH) and its concrete actions to support the application of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF) in America

      Antonio Campuzano, Pan American Institute of Geography and History, PAIGH

    • AmeriGEO's contribution to the joint plan: the new generation of the international academy american

      Angélica Gutiérrez, AmeriGEO initiative

      File

    •      » Intervenciones de los países / Country interventions

      Rosario Casanova, Red Académica UN-GGIM: Américas / Academic Network UN-GGIM: Americas

  • Session 6: Thematic events “Looking to the future”

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    Presentation(s)

    • » Introducción / Introduction

      Simone Lloyd, Vocal del Caribe / Vocal of the Caribbean, UN-GGIM: Americas

    • Centro Regional de las Naciones Unidas para Big Data / United Nations Regional Hub for Big Data

      Andrea Diniz da Silva, National School of Statistical Sciences of IBGE, Brazil

    • Digital Earth Americas

      Gabriela García Seco, Vocal América del Norte / Vocal of North American, UN-GGIM: Americas

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    • Tecnologías para una IDE / Technologies for an SDI

      Horacio Castellaro, CEPAL/ECLAC

    • » Moderadora / Moderator: Vocal del Caribe / Vocal of the Caribbean, UN-GGIM: Americas

    •      » Intervenciones de los países / Country interventions

30 November 2022

  • Session 7: Workshop Global Statistical and Geospatial Framework

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    Presentation(s)

  • Session 8: Strategic Framework for Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters

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    Presentation(s)

  • Session 9: Geodetic Reference Framework for the Americas Working Group

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    Presentation(s)

    • » Introducción / Introduction

      Sergio Cimbaro, Vocal de América del Sur / Vocal of South America, UN-GGIM: Americas

    • UN Subcommittee on Geodesy (SCoG) Update

      Daniel Roman, Working Group ETCB

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    • The Implementation of GGRF in the Americas Global Geodetic Reference Frame for the Americas

      Sonia Maria Alves Costa, Geocentric Reference System for the Americas, SIRGAS, Brazil

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    •      » Intervención de países

      Sonia Maria Alves Costa, Geocentric Reference System for the Americas, SIRGAS, Brazil

  • Cierre de la novena sesión del Comité Regional de UN-GGIM: Américas

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    Sofía Nilo Crisóstomo, UN, GGIM: Américas

    Resoluciones Novena Sesión UN, GGIM: Américas
    Palabras de cierre

        ▪  Sofía Nilo Crisóstomo, UN, GGIM: Américas

        ▪  Rolando Ocampo , División de Estadísticas de la CEPAL

     

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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

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United Nations Regional Committee on Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas

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Pamela Castillo

pcastillo@mbienes.cl

Álvaro Monett

alvaro.monett@cepal.org , (56-2) 2210 2197

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