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Title: Geospatial Science and Technology Briefing on work carried out by the CSTD


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Geospatial Science and TechnologyBriefing on
work carried out by the CSTD
UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPMENT
  • Dong Wu
  • UNCTAD
  • 17 December 2013

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Commission on Science and Technology for
Development (CSTD)
  • Functional commission of the Economic and Social
    Council (ECOSOC)
  • Created in 1992 to provide advice to ECOSOC and
    the GA
  • Since 2006, CSTD has been mandated to assist
    ECOSOC in the follow-up to WSIS
  • The Secretariat is UNCTAD

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Commission on Science and Technology for
Development (CSTD)
  • Identify priority themes during the annual
    sessions
  • Make recommendations to ECOSOC
  • Once adopted, these recommendations become
    ECOSOC resolutions.
  • These recommendations are for consideration by
    national governments, and UN entities, including
    those at the regional level.

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Commission on Science and Technology for
Development (CSTD)
  • 15th session, May 2012
  • Open access, virtual science libraries,
    geospatial analysis and other complementary ICT
    and STEM assets to address development issues,
    with particular attention to education

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Geospatial Science and Technologywork of the CSTD
  • Geospatial Science and Technology for
    Development UNCTAD Current Studies Series
  • Report of the Secretary-General on Open access,
    virtual science libraries, geospatial analysis
    and other complementary ICT and STEM assets to
    address development issues, with particular
    attention to education

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Geospatial Science and Technology
  • Tools and methodologies that are used to collect,
    manage and analyze geospatial data.
  • Significant transformation in recent years due to
    new technologies such as GIS, remote sensing and
    GPS

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Societal benefit areas and related decision
support systems
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Geospatial Science and Technology for Development
  • Applications that can address development
    challenges
  • Urban development
  • Land administration
  • Disaster management

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Summary of GST-enabled benefits in sustainable
urbanregional development
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Example of use of GIS in urban-regional planning

Visual Interpretations of different housing
typologies in selected wards of Delhi to refine
poverty targeting
Source Baud, Kuffer, Pfeffer, Sliuzas (2010)
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Example Rates of unemployment in Rosario
Argentina 2001 Census
Source Martínez, J. (2009)
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GST-enabled benefits in land administration
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Example of use of GIS in land management
Trialling HRSI for boundary identification in
Ethiopia- World Bank Study Geospatial land
parcel mapping is not common yet in Ethiopia.
Land titling is limited to textual
certificates. A WB project used Quickbird
satellite imagery to establish a parcel index for
a region.
Source Lemmen and Zevenbergen (2010)
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Main contributions of GIS to disaster management
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How can developing countries better utilize these
geospatial science and technology
  • Multi-level approach
  • Global strategy and vision
  • National strategy
  • Infrastructure and data
  • Participatory GIS and crowdsourcing
  • Cost
  • Capacity-building

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Report of the Secretary-General
  • GIS and Education
  • Learning about GIS and learning through GIS

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Learning about GIS and learning through IGS
  • Learning about GIS
  • Necessity for educational programmes that train
    people to become GIS practitioners (GIS-literate
    force)
  • Learning through GIS
  • As an education tool to develop spatial abilities
    (mainly spatial orientation and spatial
    visualization)
  • GIS and geospatial analysis can also help in
    developing data analysis and manipulation skills

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Recommendations made by the CSTD to the ECOSOC in
relation to GIS
  • Strengthen secondary and post-secondary curricula
    to better integrate geographic information
    systems and fundamental concepts of geography
    that enrich spatial thinking into national
    education programmes and support teachers through
    training to better integrate such systems,
    geography and spatial thinking into their
    professional development
  • Establish bodies dedicated to obtaining, storing
    and disseminating geographic data, including
    remote sensing data, to make geographic
    information system data available for public use
    at the lowest cost
  • Involve the private sector in the process of
    increasing technology openness for geospatial
    data, with, for example, public sector
    organizations such as government agencies and
    libraries collaborating with private sector firms
    to index geospatial information and make it
    easily searchable and available online
  • ECOSOC included these recommendations in its
    Resolution 2012/6 of 30 August 2012

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Thank you.
  • dong.wu_at_unctad.org
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