Regional committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa: road map for implementation, foundational principles 1.0

Abstract

The creation of the Regional Committee of the United Nations Global Geo-spatial Information Management for Africa (UN–GGIM: Africa) will build on the important efforts of the Committee on Development Information, Science and Technology (CODIST)–Geo, while simultaneously enriching the development and transparency of individual nations and Africa as a whole. These outcomes will ultimately benefit the African people through, among other things, better health care, infrastructure development and improved education. Strategic guidance extended by the global initiative will be essential in implementing UN–GGIM: Africa, but the African entity will be able to mould policy suited to African issues and ensure that national bodies are capable of dealing with their unique concerns.The African Action Plan on Global Geo-spatial Information Management (GI4SD) was developed in June 2016, around the following key building blocks: A policy required to guide Member States’ efforts in achieving a better coordination mechanism for geospatial information management is put in place; Common frameworks and tools for geospatial information management in Africa are developed and answer the questions on how to support geospatial standard-setting processes, and how to explore new data capture and process technologies and tools.