GIS for the United Nations and the international community conference
Join GIS experts across the United Nations system, NGOs, NPOs, and supporting organizations around the world at the 2014 GIS for the United Nations Conference. See how geography enables organizations worldwide to more effectively develop programs, monitor and evaluate activities, target aid and connect with other organizations using GIS to transform our world.
Finding effective ways to collaborate in the extreme environment of humanitarian aid and sustainable development is always challenging. The benefits, however, are immeasurable: faster response, more effective use of resources, and ultimately, saving the lives. As organizations work around the world on these missions, one common element unites them – geography. Geography gives context to these challenges, helps people relate, and connects us all together.
The GIS for the United Nations and the International Community Conference is the venue to discover how secure and stable information sharing can help organizations be more effective in tackling global issues affecting the climate, conflict, development, environment, crisis and disaster, economic and social, and health. The conference provides an environment for attendees to focus on the tools, standards, and technologies needed to evaluate aid and development risk and better mitigate their impacts.
Attending the conference will provide:
- An understanding of how a GIS provides a platform for collaboration and information sharing;
- Exposure on how to build GIS capacity in support of better planning and operations;
- Assistance with developing strategies on the application of geographic information science to complex challenges;
- An opportunity to build community networks and skill pools that ensure capacity building at every level; road map to better organized and managed information, resources and people through improved visibility, communication and collaboration;
- A vision of GIS as a platform for unifying UN and international development goals and missions through geography.