Writing Team on the Future Geospatial Information Ecosystem

Background

Since 2011, future trends and opportunities in the application and use of geospatial technologies within the wider digital ecosystem are central to the considerations of the Committee of Experts, this forward-looking activity benefited greatly from insights from the Future Trends in Global Geospatial Information Management. Determining the Geospatial Information Ecosystem was included in 2021 in the agenda of the Committee of Experts for its Twelfth Session following the presentation of a position paper entitled "Towards a sustainable geospatial ecosystem beyond SDIs." In 2022, in making decision 12/102, the Committee of Expert acknowledged "that determining the future geospatial information ecosystem was a timely and strategically important topic to consider" and several reference documents were prepared to inform the discussions and proceedings of the Committee. In 2023, in making decision 13/104, the Committee "agreed that the definition and development of future geospatial ecosystems was an opportune activity to undertake but that it required further scoping and consensus to identify and describe what the foundations of future geospatial ecosystems would encompass within the purview of the Committee." In 2024, in making decision 14/104, the Committee "acknowledged the proposed principles and fundamental elements contained in the report prepared by the Bureau and its writing team as an initial step for conceptualizing the future geospatial information ecosystem, and agreed to carry out further activities towards presenting a concept on the future geospatial information ecosystem with its scope, fundamental elements, principles and role within the broader digital ecosystem at the fifteenth session of the Committee of Experts."

Objective

The aim of the Writing Team on the Future Geospatial Information Ecosystem is to prepare a position paper determining the scope, fundamental elements, principles and role of the future geospatial information ecosystem within the broader digital ecosystem.