[UN SPIDER] Upcoming Map World Forum and COPUOS Subcommittee Meeting

[David STEVENS]

Dear Colleagues,

First of all I would like to wish you all the best for 2009. We have
started the new year running and the UN-SPIDER Team is looking at a very
busy and productive year.

There are two upcoming meetings I would like to make you aware of as they
provide opportunities for closer coordination and for building synergies.

The first is the “Map World Forum” to be held in Hyderabad, India, from
10-13 February 2009. UN-SPIDER is an Institutional Partner to the Forum.
UN-SPIDER Senior Expert Mr. Jörg Szarzynski will attend as a speaker within
the seminar on “Coastal Zone Mapping for Disaster Management” (
http://www.mapworldforum.org/2009/conference/dm.htm). Also, at exhibition
booth no. 76 Mr. Szarzynski will present the mission and activities of the
UN-SPIDER programme, and the United Nations Geographic Information Working
Group (UNGIWG) co-chaired by UNOOSA and UNECA for the period 2009 – 2010.
If you will be attending the Map World Forum please do let Mr. Szarzynski
know so you can plan a possible meeting on the sideline. For more
information: http://www.mapworldforum.org.

The second meeting is the Forty-sixth session of the Scientific and
Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
(http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/COPUOS/stsc/2009/index.html) which will also
discuss the 2008-2009 UN-SPIDER activities and the Plan of Work for
2010-2011  under agenda item 8. Space-system-based disaster management
support. If you will be attending this Subcommittee meeting as part of a
delegation from your country or organisation please do let me know so I can
forward you specific information on UN-SPIDER.

Regarding UN-SPIDER we are finetuning the 2009 Plan of Work. Please do
inform us on any specific activities which your organisation or institution
will be carrying out in 2009 that we could coordinate with. Please send
this information to Mr. Georg Magerl (georg.magerl at unoosa.org).

Once again all the best for 2009.

Regards

David

David Stevens
Programme Coordinator
UN-SPIDER
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Vienna - Austria
Tel. ++43-(1)-26060-5631 - Skype: tazarkount
FAX ++43-(1)-260607-5631 -  E-Mail david.stevens at unoosa.org