有史以来第一次仅在线Un-Ggim会话

联合国在全球的专家委员会Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) gathered for its Tenth Session in the shape of three two-hour informal meetings on 26 and 27 August and 4 September, albeit only ‘virtually’. The event was originally scheduled to be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, at the beginning of August. When the COVID-19 restrictions made it impossible for delegates to travel, the session was postponed and rescheduled. Thanks to all the IT preparations made by the Secretariat, the Tenth Session successfully became the organization’s first-ever online-only session.

专家委员会实际上是在第十届会议上进行虚拟会议的第一个成功经历四月的空中旅行限制。由英国军械调查组织的高级论坛主持了来自100个成员国的900名独特参与者。第十届UN-GGIM会议由来自90多个成员国和观察家组织的大约600名参与者参加，由比利时王国的国家地理研究所的Ingrid Vanden Berghe女士，Fernand Guy先生，Fernand Guy Isseri先生共同主持。喀麦隆国家制图学院和土地与自然资源部的罗萨蒙德·本女士，托加王国，并得到了秘书处的支持。

COVID-19 pandemic response

The reason for holding the session as an online-only event rather than getting together in New York was, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. It was because of the same pandemic that the Secretariat, together with the regional commissions and committees, had already started to communicate the broader geospatial response to the crisis. This crisis highlights the critical need and value of geospatial information. Therefore, suggestions to continue working in response to the crisis, to share experiences, to analyse where demographic and health data could be improved and to help mobilize financial resources to strengthen national geospatial information were all wholeheartedly supported. The Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF), the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework (GSGF) and the Strategic Framework on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters are all outcomes of the Committee’s work over the last ten years and are now proving helpful in the response to the crisis.

Future trends

One of the first and most important decisions of the Committee at the Tenth Session was the adoption of the third edition of the report on ‘Future Trends in Geospatial Information Management’. This five-to-ten year vision is developed through broad global consultation under the guidance and leadership of Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, which held a consultation round earlier this year to shape the new edition. The Future Trends report has been a living document for a number of years and remains a valuable resource for highlighting the importance of geospatial information as it reflects on a wide set of emerging and developing trends which can be deployed by Member States to increase the use of geospatial information for societal, technological and economic welfare. However, the Committee pointed out the danger of a widening geospatial digital divide and therefore expressed its support for national geospatial information capacity-building in developing countries. It noted at the same time that extra budget is needed for this purpose, which might be collected through several funding options.

集成地理空间信息框架

集成的地理空间信息框架（IGIF）在专家委员会的每个会议的议程中都有重要地位。它将为所有国家 /地区开发，整合，加强和最大化地​​理空间信息管理和相关资源提供基础和指南。它将协助各国弥合地理空间数字鸿沟，确保社会经济繁荣，没有人抛弃。

The IGIF comprises three parts as separate, but connected, documents. Part 1 is an Overarching Strategic Framework,Part 2is an Implementation Guide, andPart 3is a Country-level Action Plan. The three parts make up a comprehensive IGIF that serves a country’s needs in addressing economic, social and environmental factors which depend on location information in a continually changing world. The Implementation Guide communicates to the user what is needed to establish, implement, strengthen, improve and/or maintain a national geospatial information management system and capability.

The IGIF focuses on location information that is integrated with any other meaningful data to solve societal and environmental problems and to understand and take benefit from a nation’s development priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals. As such, it acts as a catalyst for economic growth and opportunity.

In the months prior to the Tenth Session, participants from 130 Member States worked in consultation meetings and workshops to come up with a draft Implementation Guide. That will now go into consultation again for further refinement. To steer this refinement, a group of experts with a balance of geographic representation and expertise was appointed. Meanwhile, Country-level Action Plans are developed on country level around the globe.

全球大地卓越中心

德国愿意在德国波恩的联合国校园建立和主持全球卓越大地卓越中心。这将是第一个将协调各个成员国和利益相关者的全球一致与合作以加强大地基础设施的中心。新的卓越中心将得到来自挪威的沟通资源以及国际地理学协会（IAG）和国际测量师联合会（VID）等组织的支持，以及其他地球利益相关者。

土地管理和管理

Thanks to progress on the Framework for Effective Land Management, after finalization the framework will serve as a possible reference for Member States when developing, reforming, strengthening and modernizing effective and efficient land administration processes and systems. The Committee of Experts requested that the framework should include and specifically address the rights of indigenous peoples to lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated a clear need for effective and reliable land information to make it possible for governments to respond as efficiently as possible.

Marine Geospatial Information

海洋地理空间信息工作组为委员会准备了其活动的报告。工作组忙于在海洋域内实施集成的地理空间信息框架。还鼓励它加强与国际水文组织（IHO）的合作，并在海洋科学和观察中寻求其他合作伙伴。特别是，联合国可持续发展海洋科学十年，海洋一般性测量图（GEBCO），海底2030项目以及新加坡IHO的创新和技术实验室将有助于共享，整合和促进和促进互操作性陆地和海洋地理空间信息。

未来会议

The 11^thSession of UN-GGIM will be held in New York from 4-6 August 2021. The Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress is due to be held in 2022, in a location to be announced at a later date.