Tenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas New York, August Proposed Organization of Work

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1 Tenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas New York, August 2013 Proposed Organization of Work UN-GGIM and the Americas, addressing global challenges through geospatial information Date/time Monday 19 August Agenda item and documentation Estimated time to be spent on each item (minutes) 1 st meeting: 10:30-13:00 Item 1 Opening of the Conference 40 a. President 9th UNRCC-A b. Stefan Schweinfest, Acting Director, UNSD Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Election of the President and other officers of the Conference Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters a. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work of the Conference (E/CONF.103/1); b. Adoption of the rules of procedure ((E/CONF.103/2) c. Establishment of technical committees and election o Chairs of each committee; d. Credentials of representatives to the Conference Report on the implementation of resolutions adopted at the 9th United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas a. Valéria Oliveira Henrique de Araújo (PC-IDEA Executive Secretary) Item 5 Report of the Permanent Committee for Geospatial Data Infrastructure of the Americas 95 a. "General Report of the term", Luiz Paulo Souto Fortes (President of PC-IDEA) b. "Diagnostics from 2011 and 2013 questionnaires", Álvaro Monett Hernández (GTplan Coordinator) c. "Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Manual for the Americas", Paula McLeod (GTplan Co-coordinator) d. "Standards Manual for the Americas", Carlos Augustin Guerrero Elemen (GTnet Coordinator) e. "The new website and capacity building portal", Álvaro Monett Hernández (GTplan Coordinator) 2 nd meeting: 15:00-16:30 7a UN-GGIM and the Americas Chaired by: Tim Trainor, Chief, Geography Division, U.S. Census Bureau, USA Paper 1: UN-GGIM, objectives, work, Doha and Cambridge, Future Paper 2: From PCGIAP to UN-GGIM-AP: A Regional Perspective on Global Geospatial Information Management Paper 3: Perspective of UN-GGIM Europe

2 Paper 4: Geospatial support for the United Nations Secretariat: geospatial activities by the UN Cartographic Section 16:30-18:00 7b Strategy, Policy, Economic and Institutional Issues Chaired by: Paper 1: Canada Paula McLeod, GeoConnections, Natural Resources Canada Paper 2: Chile Matías Fortuño, Executive Secretary, Ministry of National Property of Chile Addressing a new institutional and legal framework for the Chilean SDI Paper 3: Centre for Spatial Law and Policy Kevin Pomfret, Executive Director, Centre for Spatial Law and Policy Institutional Arrangements in GeoInformation Management: Influence of Policy and Legal Issues Paper 4: Pan-American Institute of Geography and History Santiago Borrero, Secretary General Tuesday 20 August 3 rd meeting: 10:00 11:30 7c Spatially Enabling Government Chaired by : Paper 1: Argentina Sergio Ruben Cimbaro, Director, National Geographic Institute The Argentina Experience at Sharing Information Paper 2: Bolivia Santos Luis Quispe Choque, Adm. de Metadatos IDE-IGM, Instituto Geográfico Militar Paper 3: Paper 4: GSDI Association David Coleman, President, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association International Federation of Surveyors CheeHai TEO, President of FIG FIG and Spatially Enabled Societies 11:30-13:00 7c Spatially Enabling Government contd. Chaired by: Antonio Arozarena, Deputy Director (Land Observation Unit), Instituto Geográfico Nacional, Spain

3 Paper 1: Brazil João Bosco de Azevedo, Deputy Director of Geosciences, IBGE Paper 2: Guyana Kerry Ann Cort, Forest Resources Information Officer, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Overview of Guyana s Monitoring Reporting and Verification System Year 2 Analysis Paper 3: Australia Graham Hammond, Acting Group Leader - National Geographic Information Group, Environmental Geoscience Division, Geoscience Australia Collaboration, Automation & Foundation Data: three steps towards spatially enabled government Paper 4: United States of America Harvey Simon, Geospatial Information Officer, Environmental Protection Agency 4 th meeting: 15:00-16:30 7d Geospatial Data Collection, Management and Dissemination Chaired by: Paper 1: Costa Rica Max A. Lobo-Hernández, Director, National Geographic Institute Captura, Gestión y Difusión de Datos Geoespaciales: El caso de Costa Rica Paper 2: Colombia Juan Antonio Nieto Escalante, Director General, Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi Land Management and Planning in Colombia under the Peace Process: The IGAC s approach Paper 3: Paper 4: Panama Israel Sanchez, Director General, Instituto Geográfico Nacional Tommy Guardia Infraestructura Panameña de Datos Espaciales, 2013 Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea Robert Sandev, Senior Geographic Information Systems Officer, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations Navigating a Maritime Information System: obligations of State Parties to UNCLOS and technical issues

4 16:30-18:00 7d Geospatial Data Collection, Management and Dissemination contd. Chaired by: César Rodríguez Tomeo, Presidente de la Comisión de Cartografía de la Sección Nacional de Uruguay del IPGH. Servicio Geográfico Militar, Uruguay Paper 1: Mexico Mr. Luis Camacho, Advisor to the Vice-President of National Geographic and Environment Information Digital Map of Mexico Paper 2: SIRGAS William Martinez-Díaz, Geodesist Engineer, IGAC, Colombia (presenting on behalf of SIRGAS) Geocentric Reference System for the Americas: SIRGAS Paper 3: Institute of Photogrammetry and Geoinformation Gottfried Konecny, Emeritus Professor, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany The Status of Mapping in the World Paper 4: GeoSUR Eric van Praag, Coordinador Regional Programa Wednesday 21 August 5 th meeting: 10:00 11:30 7e Best Practices and Applications Chaired by: Max A. Lobo-Hernández, Director, National Geographic Institute, Costa Rica Paper 1: Spain Antonio Arozarena, Deputy Director (Land Observation Unit), Instituto Geográfico Nacional Spanish National Plan For Land Observation (Pnot) New Collaborative Production System in Europe Paper 2: Uruguay César Rodríguez Tomeo, Presidente de la Comisión de Cartografía de la Sección Nacional de Uruguay del IPGH. Servicio Geográfico Militar Datos onerosos vs. Datos libres; impacto en una Agencia Cartográfica Paper 3: Ecuador Rafael Santos C, Evaluador Cartográfico, Subproceso CAD-SIG, Instituto Geográfico Militar

5 Paper 4 ICA George Gartner, President, International Cartographic Association The Role of Modern Cartography for mission critical applications 11:30-13:00 7f Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Chaired by: Álvaro Monett Hernández, Secretaría Ejecutiva SNIT, IDE CHILE Paper 1: Peru Pedro Arturo Chocano Ochoa, Director, The National Geographic Institute (IGN) Paper 2: Paper 3: European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROG I ) Mauro Salvemini, Treasurer Emerging issues to use, Geospatial initiatives in the societal context of disaster management Paper 4: Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson, Executive Director "The Role of Information Communication Technology in advancing Risk Resilience in Small Island Developing States 6 th meeting: 15:00-16:30 7f Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction contd. Chaired by: Sergio Ruben Cimbaro, Director, National Geographic Institute, Argentina Paper 1: Mexico Carlos Guerrero Elemen, Director General, Geography and Environment, Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia Statistics of Natural Resources and the Environment Paper 2: UN-Spider Lorant Czaran, Programme Officer Paper 3: OGC: Nadine Alameh, Executive Director, Interoperability Program Geospatial Standards and Interoperability : a necessary foundation for better understanding of climate change and disaster risk reductions

6 Paper 3: World Bank: 16:30-18:00 Technical Committees of the Conference (Parallel meetings) Committee I UN-GGIM and the Americas: Strategic, Policy, Economic and Institutional Issues Committee II Spatially Enabling government through Geospatial Data Collection, Management and Dissemination Committee III Best Practices and Applications Including Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Thursday 22 August am 10:00 13:00 Technical Committees of the Conference (Parallel Sessions) Committee I UN-GGIM and the Americas: Strategic, Policy, Economic and Institutional Issues Committee II Spatially Enabling government through Geospatial Data Collection, Management and Dissemination Committee III Best Practices and Applications Including Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management 180 pm 15:00-18:00 PC-IDEA Meeting 180 Friday 23 August 7 th meeting 10:00 13:00 Item 7 Report of the technical committees of the conference Committee I UN-GGIM and the Americas: Strategic, Policy, Economic and Institutional Issues Committee II Spatially Enabling government through Geospatial Data Collection, Management and Dissemination Committee III Best Practices and Applications Including Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Item 8 Provisional Agenda for the eleventh UNRCC-A 30 Item 9 Adoption of resolutions and report of the tenth UNRCC-A Concluding Remarks 60 13:30 4:30 Technical Tour, New York City Office of Emergency Management

7 NOTE: This draft organization of work is subject to modification.