The Fourth Meeting of the United Nations Expert Group on the Integration of Statistical and Geospatial Information (EG-ISGI) was convened in Stockholm from 9-10 November 2017. This Expert Group meeting was graciously hosted by Statistics Sweden and attended by 29 participants, 22 of whom represented their national agencies coming from 15 Member States. The meeting followed on from the UNECE/UN-GGIM: Europe Workshop on Integration of Geospatial and Statistical Standards that was held from 6 - 8 November 2017, which many Expert Group members attended and helped organized.
The objective of the Expert Group meeting was to review recent decisions of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) and the United Nations Statistical Commission relating to the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 2020 round of Population Censuses, and to discuss and plan future activities of the Expert Group. This Expert Group meeting and the Workshop on Integration of Geospatial and Statistical Standards fostered increased collaboration between the statistical and geospatial communities, agreed on joint actions for addressing interoperability issues between statistical and geospatial communities, and determined a clear prioritized work program for the Expert Group.
The Expert Group work program is now focusing strongly on members working to complete detailed definitions of the five principles in the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework, and providing guidance material for aspects of these principles. These materials will enable and support activities, amongst others, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the 2020 round of Population Censuses, and nationally, evidenced based policy and decision making.
Meeting Documents
Additional Documents
Session 1: Introductory Session
Update Expert Group members on progress and other relevant meetings
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Summary of progress since last Expert Group meeting- Martin Brady, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australia
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Update from the 7th Session of UN-GGIM Greg Scott, UN-GGIM
Session 2: Overview of Expert Group efforts to promote awareness, capacity building and implementation of the GSGF
Update on various projects relevant to promotion and implementation of the GSGF
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Australian SSF experience and future plans- Martin Brady, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australia
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A Statistical Geospatial Framework for the ESS: preliminary results from the GEOSTAT 3 project- Jerker Mostr?m, Statistics Sweden
Sweden
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Research exercise to establish a Federated Information System for the SDGs Greg Scott, UN-GGIM
Session 3: Progress reports from GSGF principle working groups
Update on the plans and progress of each of the GSGF principle working group
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Principle 2: Geocoded unit record data in a data management environment- Martin Brady, Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australia
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Progress report principle 4 working group - Statistical and geospatial interoperability - data, standards, processes … and more? Steven Vale and Ekkehard Petri, Eurostat
Session 5: Prioritisation of other Expert Group work program items
Review and prioritise existing and emerging Expert Group work program items
Session 6: Reports from Expert Group members in other key UN and International Groups
Consider reports from other key groups and discuss coordination and contribution from
Expert Group
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Implementing the Statistical Geospatial Framework at Statistics Sweden- Marie Harldorson, Statistics Sweden
Sweden
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Integrating geospatial information in census - UNFPA priorities for the 2020 round Tapiwa Jhamba, UNFPA