1. IRCC-9
Agenda item 10 B
The Establishment of a UNGGIM Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information

2. Contents Introduction to the GGIM and WG-MGI
Documents and dates for your attention
How to get involved
Action requested of IRCC

3. Introduction: United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management
Regional Entities – Similar to RHCs
Global Geodetic Reference Frame
Integrating Statistics and Other Information
Determining Fundamental Datasets
Land Administration and Management

4. Introduction: UN-GGIM Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information (WG-MGI)
Work toward the completion of an integrated global dataset that includes land and sea
Ensure that IHO standards serve as the basis for UN- GGIM marine information
Raise political awareness and highlight the importance of marine geospatial information

5. Documents and Dates for Your Attention
UN-GGIM-MGI Concept Documents - Now Available
IHO Background Report on Marine Geospatial Information - – GGIM 7 agenda item 14
Concept Note GGIM-MGI-WG-– GGIM 7 agenda item 16
CL 38/2017
Side Event on Marine Geospatial Information – 31 July in UNHQ Room 11 from 16 – 18:00
Seventh Session of the UN-GGIM: UNHQ – 31 July to 4 August

6. How Can You Get Involved – From GGIM TOR
Member States will seek to designate experts with specific knowledge drawn from the interrelated fields of surveying, geography, cartography and mapping, remote sensing, land/sea and geographic information systems and environmental protection.

7. How Can You Get Involved?
Attend the GGIM – You are entitled
Work with your representatives to support the proposal - positive interventions encouraged
If established, commit to UN-GGIM-MGI participation and consider leadership role

8. Action requested of IRCC
IRCC is invited to:
note this paper,
encourage member states to support the establishment of the UN-GGIM WG-MGI by working with their representatives to the UN-GGIM to offer interventions in favor of the WGMGI during the August 2017 UN-GGIM,
encourage member states to attend the UN-GGIM and the UN- GGIM-MGI Side Event in August 2017