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26^th Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

• Note Verbale
• About the venue
• Opening ceremony
• Special presentations
• Side events
• Essay and poem contest for Africa
• Press releases
• Exhibition posters
• Photo gallery

• English
• French
• Spanish

• About Vienna International Centre
• About Vienna
• Hotels in Vienna, Austria

• Welcome Statement of Ms. Mazlan Othman, Deputy Director-General of the United Nations office at Vienna
• Opening statement of Mr. Stefan Schweinfest, Assistant Director, UN Statistics Division, DESA

• GGIM Initiative, by Stefan Schweinfest, UNSD
• Unicode Transliteration, by Mark Davis, President & Co-founder, Unicode Consortium
• ICANN Update, by Patrick Jones and Naela Sarras
• ICIPN presentation, by Carl Christian Olsen and Kaisa Rautio Helander
• Fact sheet
• Program of the 1st International Conference on Indigenous Place Names
• OICT presentation on UN Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) - Gazetteer Framework Project, by Suha Ulgen
• Google Earth, by Crystal Sholts
• Geographical names and disaster management, by Bill Watt

• Table with side events
• Meeting room sign up sheet
• Send inquiries to geoinfo_unsd@un.org

Contest details

• Arabic
• English
• French

Contest winners

• Naima FRIHA, Tunisia
• Houda Abes Qotb, Egypt
• Mardochée Ondobo Ndjana, Cameroon

• On opening of the Session
• English
• On closing of the Session
• English

• UNGEGN no. 1
• UNGEGN no. 2
• Austria (not available electronically yet)
• Canada: Cartography and Toponymy
• Canada: Canadian Geographical Names Service (CGNS)
• Egypt: UNGEGN Database
• Egypt: CAPMAS
• Egypt CAPMAS: GIS Applications
• Finland poster no. 1: The birth of place names - talking about places (in Finnish)
• Finland poster no. 2: From one language to another (in Finnish)
• Finland poster no. 3: Storing the name of a field (in Finnish)
• Finland poster no. 4: Archived names (in Finnish)
• Finland poster no. 5: Names in multiple languages (in Finnish)
• Finland poster no. 6: The right name in the right place, Checking the names on the Basic Map (in Finnish)
• Finland poster no. 7: Planned names – Kruununhaka in Helsinki (in Finnish)
• Finland poster no. 8: Names in town plans – ”Keimola Hill” (in Finnish)
• Finland: Handout (in English)
• Finland: Updated version of these posters in English are available at http://www.kotus.fi/index.phtml?l=en&s=3763
• Latvia poster no. 1 (not available electronically)
• Latvia poster no. 2 (not available electronically)
• Madagascar (not available electronically)
• Tunisia: UNGEGN Training session
• UNGEGN Chair poster no. 1: Toponymy Training Courses
• UNGEGN Chair poster no. 2: (not available electronically yet)
• UNGEGN Chair poster no. 3: (not available electronically yet)
• UNGEGN Chair poster no. 4: (not available electronically yet)