Geospatial information critical for Africa’s sustainable development.

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The Sixth Meeting of the Regional Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management in Africa (UN-GGIM: Africa) opened Tuesday with the Director of the African Centre for Statistics at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Oliver Chinganya, emphasizing the importance of solid, reliable and accurate ‘place-based’ information for informed decisions needed to tackle Africa’s greatest challenges. In official opening remarks to the virtual meeting, Mr. Chinganya said in the last couple of decades, UN-GGIM: Africa had set realistic approaches to ensure that systematic and comprehensive frameworks were put in place with related policies, resources and structures that make geospatial information technologies easily accessible to decision makers and the community in a coordinated way.