Dear UNGIWG Members and Partners,
Chairs & Members
Chairs
2013 - 2014
Co-Chairs |
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Andre Dehondt (Mr.) Email: dehondt@un.org |
Luc St-Pierre (Mr.) Email: luc.st-pierre@unoosa.org |
Secretariat |
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Hwa Saup Lee (Mr.) Tel: 917-367-4864 |
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2011 - 2012
Co-Chairs |
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T. Suha Ulgen (Mr.) Senior Advisor on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Office of the Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer (ASG/CITO) United Nations Secretariat DC2-1810 New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: +1 212 963 3217 Mobile: +1 917 288 6845 |
Matjaz PRAH (Mr.) OSI Coordinator, Office of the Director On-Site Inspection Division CTBTO Preparatory Commission Vienna International Centre P.O. Box 1200, A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel. +43 (1) 26030 6399 Fax. +43(1) 26030 592 |
Deputy Chair |
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Ashraf ABUSHADY |
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2009 - 2011
Co-Chairs |
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Mr. Makane FAYE Tel: +251 11 5514534
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Mr. David STEVENS Tel.: +43 1 26060 ext. 5631 Deputy ChairMr. Lorant CZARAN (until 2010) |
Secretariat |
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Mr. Andre NONGUIERMA Tel: +251 115 444 718 |
Mr. Ahmed OSMAN Tel.: +43 1 26060 ext. 4977 |
2007 - 2009
Co-Chairs |
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Ms. Alta Haggarty Email: haggarty [at] un.org |
Mr. Karl Steinacker Emai: steinack [at] unhcr.org |
2005 - 2006
Co-Chairs |
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Mr David Kaatrud World Food Programme (WFP) |
Jeff Tschirley Food and Agriculture Organization, UN (FAO) |
2002 - 2004
Co-Chairs |
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Mr. Tim FORESMAN (2002-2003) Mr. Steven LONERGAN (2003-2004) |
Dr. Nevio ZAGARIA
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Secretariat |
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UN Cartographic Section (Mr. Lorant Czaran) |
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2000 - 2002
Chair |
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Mr. Hiroshi MURAKAMI Cartographic Section, DPI/UNHQ |
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Deputy Chair, Secretariat |
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Ms. Alice CHOW | |
Secretariat |
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Mr. Lorant CZARAN
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Members

More than 30 UN Departments, Funds, Programmes and Specialized Agencies are currently members of UNGIWG:
Partners
UNGIWG and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) cooperate to align UN technical specifications for geographic information with agreed International Standards. See http://www.isotc211.org/ for more information. UNGIWG also cooperates with the Open Geospatial Consortium, OGC (http://www.opengeospatial.org/ )to create open and extensible applications and interfaces for geographic information systems technologies.
Observers
The following organizations and commercial companies are recognised observers to the UNGIWG process:
- CGIAR CSI - CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information
http://csi.cgiar.org
- ESRI
http://www.esri.com
- EUROGI - European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information
http://www.eurogi.org
- LEICA - Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging
http://gis.leica-geosystems.com
- OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
http://www.osce.org
- SPOT IMAGE
http://www.spotimage.fr
- GSDI - Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association
http://www.gsdi.org