The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations,responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization,specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized agencies,the eight functional commissions,and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.
The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) is part of the federal department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and is Canada's authoritative hydrographic office. The CHS represents Canada in the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).
The Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) is an educational charity based in Perth,Scotland founded in 1884. The purpose of the society is to advance the subject of geography worldwide,inspire people to learn more about the world around them,and provide a source of reliable and impartial geographical information.
The International Cartographic Association (ICA) is an organization formed of national member organizations,to provide a forum for issues and techniques in cartography and geographic information science (GIScience). ICA was founded on June 9,1959,in Bern,Switzerland. The first General Assembly was held in Paris in 1961. The mission of the International Cartographic Association is to promote the disciplines and professions of cartography and GIScience in an international context. To achieve these aims,the ICA works with national and international governmental and commercial bodies,and with other international scientific societies.
Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape is a Mexican economist. He served as chief economic advisor to President Vicente Fox and as Secretary of Economy in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón from December 1,2006 to August 6,2008.
Mellody Hobson is an American businesswoman who is president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments,and the chairwoman of Starbucks Corporation. She is the former chairwoman of DreamWorks Animation,having stepped down after negotiating the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG,Inc.,by NBCUniversal in August 2016. In 2017,she became the first African-American woman to head The Economic Club of Chicago. She was also named to chair the board of directors of Starbucks in 2021,making her one of the highest profile corporate directors in the United States.
The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is a United States government committee which promotes the coordinated development,use,sharing,and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. Its 32 members are representatives from the Executive Office of the President,and Cabinet level and independent federal agencies. The secretary of the Department of the Interior chairs the FGDC,with the deputy director for management,Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as vice-chair.
Alice Elizabeth Perkins,CB is a former British civil servant. From 2011 to 2015 she was the chairman of Post Office Limited,a state-owned company,during the years following the separation of the Post Office from the Royal Mail.
The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose,which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was also a more general and nationwide need in light of the potential threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. Since 1 April 2015,the Ordnance Survey has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd,a government-owned company,100% in public ownership. The Ordnance Survey Board remains accountable to the Secretary of State for Science,Innovation and Technology. It was also a member of the Public Data Group.
A national mapping agency (NMA) is an organisation,usually publicly owned,that produces topographic maps and geographic information of a country. Some national mapping agencies also deal with cadastral matters.
Nigel Richard Clifford is a British executive and geographer. He is the current president of the Royal Geographical Society,the deputy chair of the UK's Geospatial Commission,and operating executive for Marlin Equity Partners.
Digimap is a web mapping and online data delivery service developed by the EDINA national data centre for UK academia. It offers a range of on-line mapping and data download facilities which provide maps and spatial data from Ordnance Survey,British Geological Survey,Landmark Information Group and OceanWise Ltd Ltd.,,Getmapping Ltd,the Environment Agency,OpenStreetMap,CollinsBartholomew Ltd,and various other sources.
Amina Jane Mohammed is a British Nigerian diplomat and politician who is serving as the fifth Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously,she was Nigerian Minister of Environment from 2015 to 2016 and was a player in the Post-2015 Development Agenda process. She is also Chair of United Nations Sustainable Development Group.
Abbas Rajabifard is a Professor and the Director of the Smart and Sustainable Development and Discipline Leader of the Geomatics Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne,Australia. He is also the Director of the Center for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA).
Heather Patricia Melville is a British banker,the Senior Managing Director of Teneo and Chancellor of the University of York,UK.
42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic) is a Royal Engineers regiment of the British Army. The regiment,formed originally in 1947,provides field deployable geographic services,including geodetic survey,terrain analysis,information management and dissemination and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT).
The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) is one of the nine expert groups of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to foster the global development geospatial information.
Ed Parsons is a London-based Geospatial Technologist and tech evangelist at Google. He is working to evangelise geospatial data for commercial application and consequently,to improve the usability and efficiency of location based tools at Google. He is credited as being one of the core proponents of Google Street View.
The International Society for Digital Earth is an international non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Digital Earth concept. It publishes the International Journal of Digital Earth. It is recognized as one of the main international Geospatial Societies by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management. It is also a member of the Group on Earth Observations.
Manuel Ntumba is a Congolese-Togolese inventor,advisor,geostrategist and geospatial expert. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of the global public-private partnership Tod'Aérs Global Network [TGN]. Ntumba currently advises governments and intergovernmental organizations in the strategic planning and the strategic management of development programmes across various sectors.
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