Contact and membership
 


Co-Chairs for 2009-2010 (as of 20th February, 2009)

Mr. Makane FAYE, Co-chair
Coordinator, E-@pplications Section, ISTD
UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Email: MFaye [at] uneca.org

Mr. Andre NONGUIERMA, Deputy Co-chair
Senior GIS Officer, E-@pplications Section, ISTD, UNECA
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Email: nonguierma [at] un.org

Mr. David STEVENS, Co-chair
Programme Coordinator, UN-SPIDER
UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA)
Vienna
Austria
Email: David.Stevens [at] unoosa.org

Mr. Lorant CZARAN, Deputy Co-chair, Secretariat contact
Head of Bonn Office, UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER
Bonn, Germany
Email: Czaran [at] unoosa.org

Secretariat
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Members

More than 30 UN Departments, Funds, Programmes and Specialized Agencies are currently members of UNGIWG:
     
UN/DESA   UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
UN/DM   UN Department of Management
UN/DPA   UN Department of Political Affairs
UN/DPI   UN Department of Public Information
UN/DPKO   UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
UN/OCHA   Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UNODC   United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes
UN/OLA   UN Office of Legal Affairs
UN/OOSA   United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
UN/UNOG   United Nations Office at Geneva
ECA   United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
ECE   Economic Commission for Europe
ECLAC   Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ESCAP   Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
CTBTO   Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
FAO   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
IAEA   International Atomic Energy Agency
ICAO   International Civil Aviation Organization
UNAIDS   Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
UNDP   United Nations Development Programme
UNEP   United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO   United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFPA   United Nations Population Fund
UN-HABITAT   United Nations Human Settlements Programme
UNHCR   United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF   United Nations Children’s Fund
UNITAR   United Nations Institute for Training and Research
UNOPS   United Nations Office for Project Services
UNU   United Nations University
WB   World Bank
WFP   United Nations World Food Programme
WHO   World Health Organization
WMO   World Meteorological Organization

 

Partners

UNGIWG and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) cooperate to align UN technical specifications for geographic information with agreed International Standards. See http://www.isotc211.org/ for more information.

UNGIWG also cooperates with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to create open and extensible applications and interfaces for geographic information systems technologies.

 

Observers

The following organizations and commercial companies are recognised observers to the UNGIWG process:

CGIAR CSI - CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information
http://csi.cgiar.org

ESRI
http://www.esri.com

EUROGI - European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information
http://www.eurogi.org

LEICA - Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging
http://gis.leica-geosystems.com

OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
http://www.osce.org

SPOT IMAGE
http://www.spotimage.fr