By: Valrie Grant, Managing Director, GeoTechVision
Over the past two weeks, this column has focused on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM).
The priorities and work programme of UN-GGIM are driven by UN Member States and much of the focus coming out of the fifth session of the Committee of Experts surrounds the Sustainable Development Goals that will be ratified by the UN General Assembly next month – September 2015. The UN-GGIM has been engaged in helping all to recognize that in order to measure and monitor these important goals and their targets, geospatial information is critical. One of the discussion topics and resolutions resulting from the Experts Meeting is that of integrating geospatial, statistical and other information to create a multidimensional data and information model.
What does this really speak to and why is it