Seventh Plenary Meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe
| 22 June 2020
The Seventh Plenary Meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe will bring together senior executives and experts from the national geospatial information and statistical authorities of UN-GGIM: Europe Member States, and international and observer organisations.
The meeting will be held on the 22 – 23 June 2020 at the UNECE, Geneva. The Seventh Plenary Meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe will overlap with the 2020 Plenary Session of the Conference of European Statisticians, a common session will be organised on the 23 June.
Due to the travel restrictions cause by the COVID-19 pandemic the Seventh Plenary Meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe and the 2020 Plenary Session of the Conference of European Statisticians will be held as virtual meetings.
The Seventh Plenary Meeting of the European Region of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM: Europe) was held on the 22 – 23 June 2020 as a virtual event. The Plenary Meeting overlapped with the 2020 Plenary Session of the Conference of European Statisticians, with a common session organised between the UN-GGIM: Europe and the Conference of European Statisticians.
The Seventh Plenary Meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe brought bring together over 100 senior executives and experts from the region’s national geospatial information and statistical authorities of 34 Member States and 11 international organisations.
Meeting Documents
Presentations
Morning Session – Chair – Tomaž Petek, Chair of the Executive Committee UN-GGIM: Europe |
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Opening of the Seventh Plenary of UN-GGIM: Europe |
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| 2 | UN-GGIM: Europe – Year in Review | Tomaž Petek, UN-GGIM: Europe |
| 3 | Report from UNECE | Steven Vale Statistical Division, UNECE |
| 4 | Updated from Eurostat | Ruxandra Roman Enescu, Eurostat |
Meeting global challenges |
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| 6 | Copernicus the EU Earth Observation Programme | Mauro Facchini
DG DEFIS Defence Industry and Space Earth Observation Unit |
| 7 | Disaster risk management as a global challenge for geographic data | Tom de Groeve, Disaster Risk Management Unit, European Commission Joint Research Centre |
| 8 | Using official data in response to the COVID-19 crisis – some case studies:
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Colin Bray, Ireland
Francisco Vala, Portugal David Henderson, United Kingdom |
Afternoon Session Chair: David Henderson, Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee UN-GGIM: Europe |
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Update from UN-GGIM |
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| 11 | Update from UN-GGIM | Greg Scott, UN-GGIM, UNSD |
Formal Business |
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| 13 | Reports from Regional Working Groups: | Clement Godin, France
Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu, Germany Tomaž Petek, UN-GGIM: Europe |
| 17 | Plenary wrap-up (coming soon) | Carol Agius, UN-GGIM: Europe Secretariat |
A common session between the UN-GGIM: Europe and the Conference of European Statisticians was held on the Tuesday the 23 June 2020 presentations and related material can be found here.