New website for the Global Observing Systems
GOSIC provides access to data, metadata and information, and overviews of the structure and programs for GCOS, GOOS and GTOS
GeoNetwork now Reference Implementation of the CSW
FAO GeoNetwork crew finished work on implementing the Open Geospatial Consortium Catalog Services for the Web (OGC-CSW) specification in the GeoNetwork opensource Catalog System
Ban urges ambitious UN reforms
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Monday urged the General Assembly to streamline the UN's bureaucracy to make it more efficient. Ban formally endorsed recommendations made last November by a high-level panel that called for such measures as consolidating different programs into one operation per country.
Geonovum formally established
Geonovum is the new organization established to coordinate and implement the public segment of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure
UGPM FINAL report released
The UNSDI Global Partners Meeting FINAL report has been released
New Co-Chairs UNGIWG
As of 4 April two new UNGIWG Co-Chairs are appointed
UGPM meeting concluded
On 1 and 2 March the UNSDI Global Partners Meeting took place at ESRIN, the ESA Centre for Earth Observation near Frascati
UGPM Programme Documents available
The programme, participants lists and reference documents of the UNSDI Global Partners Meeting on 1-2 March are now available
On-line meeting room!
To allow direct interaction between visitors of the site a virtual meeting room is established. To be found under Meetings in the main menu.
ILWIS migrates to open source
In order to create better opportunities for the reuse and deployment of GIS functionality as being developed by several researchers within ITC, the ITC directorate has decided on 7 December 2006 to make current ILWIS software free of charge and to migrate it as such to open source software under the 52°North initiative.