GKI Roundtable (Invite-only) Vision and Strategy for the Long-term Development and Adoption of Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure: Moving ‘geospatial’ from data to knowledge

2 May 2023, 0930 – 1300 hrs | Hall - Captain’s Lounge

BACKGROUND

Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI) places geospatial knowledge at the heart of tomorrow’s sustainable digital society. It is being developed through an alliance project ‘Advancing Role of Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI) in World Economy, Society and Environment’. Initiated by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and Geospatial World, the project brings together key stakeholders (government, industry, research, academia, etc.) from the geospatial, digital, and user industries over 3 phases, to develop GKI concepts and a blueprint.

With phase 3 of the GKI project concluding at the end of 2023, the partners and stakeholders seek to confirm the GKI vision and determine a strategy to support the long-term direction and future of the GKI and its objectives. Laying out the long-term vision for GKI, and the strategy for implementing the vision will provide a much-needed focus for the growing digital and geospatial ecosystem, pave the way for the integration of GKI principles within national digital and geospatial strategies and lead to enhanced contribution of geospatial knowledge towards sustainable national development.

Objectives

The invite-only roundtable discussion will be informal and interactive, seeking opinions and views from geospatial leaders to provide thoughts and ideas which can enable the GKI partners and stakeholders, and the global geospatial community, to be more adequately prepared for the rapidly emerging geospatial ecosystem and environment of the future leveraging the GKI. With the intent to consider the direction and long-term future of the GKI and visioning geospatial infrastructure for 2030 and beyond some initial discussion objectives of the roundtable may include to:

Consider how GKI supports the evolving potential for geospatial information and technologies to deliver greater social and economic impact.
Develop means for geospatial infrastructure of the future to meet the evolving demands of the future geospatial ecosystem.
Consider means for national geospatial agencies and geospatial industry sectors to support the delivery of geospatial knowledge.
Confirm the long-term vision of the GKI and “Geospatial Knowledge at the heart of tomorrow’s global digital society”.
Identify potential pathways for the long-term development of GKI in meeting the vision of the future.
Discuss the need for ongoing institutional anchoring to sustain and propagate the GKI going forward.

Agenda

2nd May
0930 - 0945 Ice-breaker and Expectation Setting
0945 - 1000 Introduction: GKI - paving the way for the future geospatial ecosystem
1000 - 1040 Discussion 1: Collaboration for geospatial knowledge creation in the future
1040 - 1120 Discussion 2: A Geospatial industry that supports the autonomous world of the future
1120 - 1135 Networking Break
1135 - 1215 Discussion 3: Enhancing geospatial knowledge adoption in developing countries
1215 - 1255 Discussion 4: Implementation strategy and institutional anchoring for long term development of GKI
1255 - 1300 Concluding remarks