Contact and membership
 


Co-Chairs for 2007-2008

Ms. Alta Haggarty
Deputy Chief, Advocacy and Information Management Branch (AIMB)
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
One UN Plaza, DC1
New York, 10017, U.S.A
Email:

Mr. Karl Steinacker
Chief, Field Information and Coordination Support Section (FICSS)
Division of operational Services (DOS)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
94, rue de Montbrillant
1202 Genève, Switzerland
Email:

Secretariat
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Members

More than 30 UN Funds, Programmes and Specialized Agencies are currently members of UNGIWG:
     
CTBTO   Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
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
FAO   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
IAEA   International Atomic Energy Agency
ICAO   International Civil Aviation Organization
OCHA   Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UNAIDS   Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
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/OLA   UN Office of Legal Affairs
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
UNODC   United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes
UNOOSA   United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
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