UNSDI – Netherlands Coordination Office

A New Home For UNSDI Knowledge

For many years, this website has served as a central gateway to information and documents about UNSDI. The content has now been preserved in an external archive accessible via the UNSDI page on Wikipedia.

This Site Is Being Phased Out

This website is being dismantled, and nearly all pages are offline. This homepage will point visitors to the external resources where UNSDI information and documents are maintained.

UNSDI Resources Remain Accessible

The information and documents built up through the UNSDI process remain available to the global community at the UNSDI page on Wikipedia, where links to the preserved document collection are maintained.

Where do we go from here

The UNSDI‑NCO website is currently being phased out, but the information it hosted will remain available in a sustainable way. This site will now serve only as a concise entry point to key external resources.

For more than a decade, UNSDI‑NCO has acted as a national liaison between UN organizations, UN Member States and Dutch ministries, institutes, universities, NGOs, SMEs and enterprises, with the aim of promoting the worldwide disclosure and use of geospatial information for sustainable development. The knowledge developed in that context, including documents from over 30 UNGIWG member organizations related to the UNSDI process, has now been consolidated in an online facility and is referenced from the English‑language Wikipedia page on the United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI).

Visitors seeking background information, historical documents or technical material on UNSDI are invited to start from the UNSDI page on Wikipedia, where links to these archived resources are maintained. This ensures that the insights, lessons learned and proposals produced under the UNSDI banner remain openly accessible to anyone who wishes to build on them in the future, even though this website itself is being phased down.

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CHEERS

Thank you all for the trust, support and collaboration you have shown throughout the UNSDI journey. Working together with partners from UN organizations, ministries, institutes, universities, NGOs, SMEs and enterprises has been a privilege, and the knowledge we built collectively will continue to live on in the preserved UNSDI documents and resources.

As this website comes to an end, my sincere hope is that others will pick up the thread and take UNSDI ideas further than we were able to do here. I wish everyone the very best of success with any future UNSDI follow‑on activities and initiatives in the geospatial domain.

With my best regards,
Jan Cees Venema