[Ica-sdistandards] SDI and Standards related UN GGIM side events in the next two weeks

[Serena Coetzee]

Dear Commission members,

these two UN GGIM side events may be of interest to you. The full side
event calendar is here
https://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIM-committee/11th-session/side_events/Side_Event_Calendar.pdf

*Standards Guide Ed 3 for global consultation*
Organized by the standards development organizations (ISO, OGC and IHO)
17 August at 1200 UTC
Register here
https://portal.ogc.org/public_ogc/register/210817_UN-GGIM_side_event.php

The standards development organizations (SDO): Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC), the Technical Committee 211 of the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO/TC 211), and the International Hydrographic
Organization (IHO) have worked in partnership for more than two decades to
ensure international geospatial standards are developed to meet the needs
and requirements for data sharing within our global geospatial community
including to support Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2015 the
UN-GGIM endorsed the Guide to the Role of Geospatial Information Standards
and its Companion Document - Standards by Tier.

This side event aims to engage participants, member nations, observers, and
experts in:
- raising the awareness of the role of global standards for interoperability
- identifying the needs for standards development leading to supporting the
SDGs
- participating in standards development and sharing user stories of
implementations.

*Moderator*: Mr. Mark Reichardt, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
*Opening*, Mr. Anders Sandin, Co-Chair UN-GGIM High-level Group on IGIF;
Director Geographic and Land Information, Lantmäteriet, Sweden
*Introduction to the joint work of the SDOs*, Dr. Nadine Alameh, CEO Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Ms. Agneta Engberg, Chair ISO/TC 211
Geographic information/ Geographics, Dr. Mathias Jonas, Secretary-General
International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
*The Standards Guide Edition 3* *– Overview, *Mr. Mark Reichardt, Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
*Facilitated Discussion: How do I use the Guide? A closer look at:
Direction setting, Understanding needs, Planning for Change, Taking action,
Ongoing management, Achieving outcomes*
*Summary and Closing*

*Towards a sustainable ecosystem beyond spatial data infrastructures*
Organized by EUROGI
11 August 2021 12:00 UTC
Link to join the session (registration not required)
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDEzOTU2ZTUtMGJlMS00NGIxLWExODQtNmE2ZDljMWYzMzg0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22e6634be7-7204-48b4-a38e-91786e84c2e4%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221c024f22-5651-4fae-8f17-9b0e7ac3b3b6%22%7d

BACKGROUND
Since the SDI conceptualisation was developed in the late 1980s and early
1990s there have been many technological and other changes which have quite
radically changed the environment for geospatial information and analytics.
There is thus a need to re-think and re-align the way in which geospatial
information is shared, analysed and used in the rapidly changing
environment of today and into the future. A group of geospatial experts
from around the world who were brought together by EUROGI, the European
Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information, has produced a paper
which proposes the idea of a geospatial ecosystem as a basis for
establishing a new updated framework. The two main aims of the session are
to briefly outline the ideas set out in the paper and to obtain feedback
from the session attendees which will be used to revise the paper and
further develop the ideas presented in the paper.
Link to the paper
https://ggim.un.org/meetings/GGIM-committee/11th-Session/documents/Towards_a_Sustainable_Geospatial_Ecosystem_Beyond_SDIs_Draft_3Aug2021.pdf

SESSION PROGRAMME
*Welcome & Background*, Bruce McCormack (EUROGI Vice President)
*SDI Evolution*, Michael Gould (Esri and University of Jaume I, Spain)
*New & Emerging Conditions*, Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse (Spatial Vision,
Australia)
*A Vision for the Future*, Serena Coetzee (University of Pretoria, South
Africa)
*Suggested Actions to move Towards a Sustainable Geospatial Ecosystem*,
Bruce McCormack
*Questions and Answers *
*Concluding Comments*, Bruce McCormack

Serena Coetzee (GPr GISc 1245)
University of Pretoria
Professor and Head of Department Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology
Geography Building 1-3.7, Hatfield Campus, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, 0083,
South Africa
email: serena.coetzee at up.ac.za · Web: www.up.ac.za/ggm · Mobile: +27 82 464
4294 · Tel: +27 12 420 3823
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