Third Plenary UN-GGIM: Europe – October 2016
The meeting, which was officially opened by Katalin Tóth, Deputy State Secretary on International Relations of the Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary, included a review of the past year’s activities and examples of how statistical and geospatial organisations are working together in Ireland, Poland and Slovenia.
In addition, Member States approved the 2017 to 2020 work plan and requests for observer status from the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) and specialist IT consultancy, ConsultingWhere. Delegates also approved the appointment of Janusz Dygaszewicz from the Central Statistical Office, Poland to the UN-GGIM: Europe Executive Committee.
The keynote was delivered by Gabriella Vukovich, President of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and Co-Chair of the United Nations High Level Group
for Partnership, Coordination and Capacity-Building for post-2015 monitoring who spoke on building a partnership between the geospatial and the statistical community. Greg Scott from the UN-GGIM Secretariat also gave examples of how the committee of experts is making a difference by fulfilling its global geospatial mandate and looked to its future activities which focus on work with the Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators
Agenda >
| Agenda Item | Presenter |
|---|---|
| Geo-statistics: a partnership between the geospatial and the statistical community | Gabriella Vukovich, President of the Hungarian Central Statistics Office |
| UN-GGIM: Making a Difference | Greg Scott, Global Geospatial Information Management |
| Report from the Executive Committee: A year in review | Kristian Møller, Member of the Executive Committee, Denmark |
| Good cooperation as the basis of geospatial statistics in Poland | Janusz Dygaszewicz, Director of Programming and Coordination of Statistical Surveys Department Central Statistical Office of Poland |
| Collaboration to develop a data platform for geospatial and statistical information in Ireland | Colin Bray, OSi CEO |
| Use case from Slovenia- merging statistical and geospatial data | Tomaž Petek |
| Global Working Group on National Institutional Arangements | Antonio Arozarena, Spain |
| Working Group A – Core Data | François Chirié, France |
| Report from Work Group B – Data Integration | Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu, Germany |
| GRF-Europe | Markku Poutanen, Finland |
| Work Plan for 2017-2020 | Ezio Bussoletti, Member of the Executive Committee, Italy |