DOHA: The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani will inaugurate the second High Level Forum on Global Geospatial Information Management, at Qatar National Convention Center, today.
Qatar Statistics Authority is holding the three-day event in collaboration with the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning and the United Nations Statistics Division.
The forum will bring together senior government representatives from United Nations member states as well as interested stakeholders from non-governmental organisations, academia and the private sector to address and discuss critical and cutting-edge issues on global geospatial information management.
It also seeks to promote greater scientific usage of growing sources of geospatial information.
The forum aims to find the right techniques to create a database on the geography of the world’s countries, in accordance with internationally adopted standards.
The forum will refer to the database in case of emergency to be able to control it and reduce expected damage.
The important international event comes as a result of fruitful cooperation between QSA, Geographic Information Systems Center of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, and all bodies associated with the national network of geographic information systems.
They cooperated on integrating geospatial and statistical information in related data to advance the process of data analysis and results to achieve the state’s comprehensive development and National Vision 2030 goals.
In this forum, Qatari officials and international experts will exchange experiences and identify the latest geographic information systems of worldwide scope to strengthen capabilities of the entities that use such systems, including QSA, the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, the Ministry of Interior, Qtel and others.
This will have the greatest impact on improving the performance and supporting the application of these technologies in a more organised way.
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