Report on geospatial information management activities in Africa

Abstract

Report on geospatial information management activities in Africa. African regional spatial data infrastructure, which serves as a framework for policies and structures to facilitate the availability of and access to spatial data through data-sharing among data producers and users; The African Geodetic Reference Frame project, to develop a regional geodetic reference frame, aligned with the Global Geodetic Reference Frame to enable direct and seamless applications of all geospatial information on the continent; The Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa was created following the establishment of the United Nations Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management, which was designed to create a formal geospatial information coordination mechanism involving member States as the key stakeholders. Geospatial information is a means to track, monitor and analyze any occurrence that has a location or temporal element. More importantly, it is designed to look forward by creating models and analyzing the potential consequences of policy and events.