Status UNGIWG/UNSDI developments

19 May 2008, 12:17pm

On 5 & 6 February 2008 the UNGIWG Secretariat organized a workshop, hosted by WFP in Rome in order to formulate the so called "UNSDI Deliverables", being data sets which the UNGIWG members consider to be the "core geo-data sets" for an initial UNSDI, needed by the UN bodies as a comon baseline for their work. Additional deliverables identified are capacity building activities, both within the UN bodies as in developing countries, the latter being dubbed "indigenous capacity building". Other Deliverables are on interoperability and tools.

In March/April the Interim UNSDI Deliverables List and 1st draft of the UNSDI Framework Project Document were finalized and circulated to the members for comments. For the rest of the year the following major milestones are foreseen: in May/June the Interim UNSDI Board and the Interim Technical Advisory Body (TAG) will be established. In July the UNSDI Project will be established with UNOPS and the UNSDI Project Team will be formed. In early November, at the UNGIWG-9 meeting, hosted by UNOOSA in Vienna, the UNSDI Board and TAG will be formed and the UNSDI Project Team recognized. In December the UNSDI Project and the Deliverables List will be adopted by the UNSDI Board.

Next steps are to:

* Finalize the Deliverables, work plans, budgets, issue donor appeal document
* Set-up UNSDI structures: institutional and technical
* Dialogue with major external stakeholders (UN reform bodies, governments, etc.)
* Mobilize resources
* Sustain UNGIWG Secretariat, set-up UNSDI Project Team

Here you can find the new UNSDI Technical Governance Framework documents:

* Discussion Draft Proposed UNSDI Technical Governance Framework Executive Summary
http://www.ungiwg.org/docs/unsdi/TechnicalGov/
Draft_Proposed_UNSDI_TechGov_Framework_ExecSum.doc

* Discussion Draft Proposed UNSDI Technical Governance Framework
http://www.ungiwg.org/docs/unsdi/TechnicalGov/
Proposed_UNSDI_Tech_Gov_Framework.pdf

* Technical Governance of Framework Data Services
http://www.ungiwg.org/docs/unsdi/TechnicalGov/
TechnGov_Framework_Data_Services.doc


More documents at:
http://www.ungiwg.org/documents.htm.

www.ungiwg.org

Geo: International