Global
Geospatial
Information
Management
“Positioning geospatial information to address global challenges”
Greg Scott
Inter-Regional Advisor
Global Geospatial Information Management
United Nations Statistics Division
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Measuring and monitoring
sustainable development…
Engaging
the
Challenges
Enhancing
the
Relevance
with geography, place, and location
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The World We Want
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Ensure that globalization becomes a positive
force for all the worlds’ peoples of present
and future generations.
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Radical shift towards more sustainable
patterns of consumption, production, and
resource use.
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Transformative change is needed - business
as usual is not an option.
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There are no blueprints and one size does not
fit all.
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Should be a truly global agenda with shared
responsibilities for all countries.
http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/untaskteam_undf/report.shtml
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Integrative Framework: Principles, Dimensions and Enablers
Enablers:
Fair and stable global trading system.
Adequate financing for development
and stable financial system.
Affordable access to technology and
knowledge.
Providing sustainable energy for all.
Coherent macroeconomic and
development policies supportive of
inclusive and green growth.
Inclusive
economic
development
Eradication of income
poverty and hunger
Reduction of inequalities
Environmental
sustainability
Protection of biodiversity
Stable climate
Resilience to natural
hazards
Human rights
Equality
Sustainability
Decent work and
productive employment
Enablers:
Sustainable food and nutrition
security.
Universal access to quality health
care.
Universal access to quality education.
Inclusive social protection systems.
Managing demographic dynamics.
Regulating international migration.
Inclusive social
development
Adequate nutrition for all
Quality education for all
Reduced mortality and
morbidity
Gender equality
Universal access to clean
water and sanitation
Enablers:
Sustainable use of natural
resources (climate, oceans,
biodiversity) and management of
waste.
Managing disaster risk and
improving disaster response.
Peace and
human security
Freedom from violence,
conflict and abuse
Conflict-free access to
natural resources
Enablers:
Democratic and coherent global
governance mechanisms.
Good governance practices
based on the rule of law.
Conflict prevention and
mediation.
Human rights protection.
Women’s empowerment.
A process of many voices and ideas: www.worldwewant2015.org
Food security
and nutrition
Growth and
employment
Economic
inequalities
Population
dynamics
Environment
Conflict &
fragility
Youth
Governance
Health
LGBTI
rights
Indigenous
peoples
Water
Violence against
women
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How many of
these focus areas
capture or
include elements
of geography,
place, and
location?
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“We recognize the importance of spacetechnology-based data, in situ
monitoring and reliable geospatial
information for sustainable development
policymaking, programming and project
operations….”
Para. 274
“We further recognize the importance of
comprehensive hazard and risk
assessments, and knowledge- and
information-sharing, including reliable
geospatial information”
Para. 187
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Environmental
sustainability
Protection of biodiversity
Stable climate
Resilience to natural hazards
“Improving access to geographical
information and geospatial data, and
building capacities to use scientific
information in areas such as climate
monitoring, land use planning, water
management, disaster risk reduction,
health and food security, will allow for
more accurate environmental and social
impact assessments and more informed
decision-making at all levels”
Para. 79
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“We also call for a data revolution for
sustainable development, with a new
international initiative to improve the quality
of statistics and information available to
citizens. We should actively take advantage of
new technology, crowd sourcing, and
improved connectivity to empower people
with information on the progress towards the
targets”
Executive Summary
“The post-2015 agenda must be relevant for
urban dwellers. Cities are where the battle
for sustainable development will be won
or lost. The most pressing issue is not urban
versus rural, but how to foster a local,
geographic approach to the post-2015 agenda”
Cities, Page. 17
http://report.post2015hlp.org/index.html
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Pillar 2: Science, technology and innovation
(d) ) Optimal utilization of space and geospatial
technologies:
“This will require increasing investments and
promoting human resources development in the
management and deployment of space and
geospatial technologies”
Page 11
Enabling Implementation
“INVEST IN and STRENGTHEN national statistical
capacities and geospatial information systems for the
collection, analysis, production and dissemination of
disaggregated data to measure and evaluate policy
effectiveness; and PROMOTE a culture of evidencebased decision making”
Para 100
http://www.africa.undp.org/content/rba/en/home/library/reports/povertyreduction/common-african-position-on-the-post-2015-agenda.html
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Formal inter-governmental UN Committee of Experts to:
Discuss, enhance and coordinate Global Geospatial Information Management
activities by involving Member States at the highest level.
Make joint decisions and set directions on the use of geospatial information
within national and global policy frameworks.
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Monitoring Sustainable
Development: Why Location
Matters?
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7th Session of the Open Working Group on
Sustainable Development Goals, 6-10 January 2014
The Role of Geospatial Information in Measuring and
Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals
Disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, and global urbanization
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The SDGs will depend on human and physical geography. In order to measure
and monitor change and progress you must have access to fundamental and
consistent geospatial information – geography.
Not all targets will be equal and will require different means of measure.
Indicators will need to be linked to the targets and be well defined,
measurable over time, cost effective, and clearly and easily communicated.
There will be a need to create a network of consistent global data – reliable
geospatial information – to measure and monitor trends, change and progress
over time in a standardized manner.
http://ggim.un.org/OWG.html
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• To address sustainable urbanization in an integrated and focused way, effective
and sustained land information systems are required for registration of land
ownership and tenure.
• This will depend on the availability of, and access to, national fundamental data
themes and information that reliably depict features on, above, or below the
Earth.
• These core reference geographies, upon which all other information is based,
may include: a geodetic control network; topography; elevation; water;
transport; vegetation; human settlement; administrative boundaries; land
ownership and use; and other socioeconomic and environmental data.
• Concerted efforts should be made to bring the developing countries to a base
level of capability and capacity with respect to these framework data themes.
http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/integration/2014/documentation.shtml
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Measuring and monitoring
sustainable development…
Engaging
the
Challenges
Enhancing
the
Relevance
with geography, place, and location
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How do we influence and transform the agenda?
“Positioning
Positioning geospatial
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information to
to address
address global
global challenges”
challenges
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Our 3 pillars of potential influence
Science and
Technology
Measure, Model and
Monitor
Data integration
Provide the evidence
Innovation, Tools and
Outcomes
Policy
Framework
Sustainable
Development
Local to global issues
Social
Economic
Environmental
Political awareness
People
Cities
Livelihoods
Ecosystems
Development
Evidence based policy
Inter-governmental
Decision making
Influence
How do we influence and transform the policy agenda?
• The level of geospatial understanding and rate of uptake at the policy
level is inadequate. GI needs to be moved up the value chain.
• We need to engage at a much higher level, more strategically, and we
need to change our language and messages in doing so.
• Transformative change is needed - business as usual is no longer an
option. We can no longer operate in silos. We need to find common
ground and talk to each other.
Challenges
Change
Cooperate
Collaborate
Commit
Coherence
Conquer
• Consumers now innovate and drive the technology, not us. Others are
providing more timely, faster, cheaper data/services. What is our niche?
• We need to be global geo-information champions to remain relevant!
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How do we influence and transform the geospatial
agenda?
• The paradigm of data availability is changing – more real
time. What is surveying and mapping for the 21st century?
Innovate
• We need to see geospatial data for its ‘information value’,
not where it has come from or who owns it. Treat location
as the basic unit. Data is going to be the key!
Integrate
• Data is being collected differently. No longer just for
mapping and delivery, but integration, analytics, modelling,
Influence
aggregation and fusion.
• The NSDI is more important than ever, BUT it must be
viewed in a different manner. It can provide the means to Institutionalize
“organize” and deliver core geographies from everywhere.
• A global challenge: Spatial Data Integration, Fusion and
Immediately
Policy (SDIFP) platforms will provide the world’s first Global
Geographic Census of Data by 2020.
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Chengdu Forum on GGIM, China, October 2013
“Development and Applications in Urban Hazard Mapping”
“Geospatial information needs to
contribute much more to the post2015 sustainable development
agenda: disaster risk reduction;
sustainable development; and the
global trend towards urbanization.
You, as a global professional
community, must decide and
determine if and how this will happen”
Wu Hongbo
Under-Secretary-General for
Economic and Social Affairs
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Thank You
Terima Kasih
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