10th United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas
19 - 23 August 2013, New York, United States


The United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas (UNRCC-A) provides a regional forum where government officials, planners, scientists and experts from the Americas and other regions meet to address their common needs, problems and experiences in the field of surveying and mapping, cartography, hydrography, remote sensing, land and geospatial information systems.

The 10th Conference was held from August 19 to 23, 2013 at the UN headquarters in New York under the theme UN-GGIM and the Americas, addressing global challenges through geospatial information. Specific conference objectives are:

  • to receive reports on the work being done to advance geospatial information management and assess the status of the resolutions adopted at the Ninth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas.
  • for conference delegates to share experiences, knowledge and best practices on geospatial information management (GIM) at all levels;
  • for representatives from Member States to gain greater understanding of the relevance and work of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Committee of Experts, GIM issues being addressed in addition to the strategic direction and related program of work;
  • to elect and welcome the new members of the governing body for the Americas and
  • for Member States and supporting stakeholders to identify existing and new opportunities for increased regional and global collaborations aimed at advancing GIM for sustained economic development of the Americas.

The conference began on Monday 19th August, 2013 with an opening session followed by administrative formalities. This was followed by the delivery of reports on the Resolutions of the 9th UNRCC-A and Permanent Committee for Geospatial Data Infrastructure of the Americas (PC-IDEA). The technical conference began in the afternoon with an important session on UN-GGIM and the Americas. The topics covered during the Conference were:

Topic 1                   UN-GGIM and the Americas
Topic 2                   Strategy, policy, economic and institutional issues
Topic 3 and 4      Spatially Enabling Government
Topic 5 and 6      Geospatial data collection, management and dissemination
Topic 7                   Best practices and applications
Topic 8 and 9      Climate change and disaster risk reduction
Topic 100                 Technical Committees of the Conferennce (Parallel Sessions)

Over 65 government officials, planners, scientists and experts in the field of surveying and mapping, cartography, hydrography, remote sensing, land and geospatial information systems from the Americas and other regions participated in the conference.

The Conference was PaperSmart. Accordingly, instead of distributing hardcopies of documents in the conference room, all documentation were available for downloading electronically through the PaperSmart Portal. http://papersmart.unmeetings.org/en/ecosoc/unrcc/unrcca10/.

Documents
Technical Papers
Country Reports
  • Country Report of Jamaica
  • Country Report of Egypt
  • Country Report of Suriname
    • E/CONF.103/IP.1, Submitted by Suriname - Agenda item 6(b)
    • English
  • Mexico Country Report
    • E/CONF.103/IP.2, Submitted by Mexico - Agenda item 6(b)
    • Spanish
  • Country Report of Canada
  • Country Report of Chile
    • E/CONF.103/IP.4, Submitted by Chile - Agenda item 6(b)
    • English
  • Country Report of Uruguay
    • E/CONF.103/IP.5, Submitted by Uruguay - Agenda item 6(b)
    • English
  • Country Report of Colombia
    • E/CONF.103/IP.6, Submitted by Colombia - Agenda item 6(b)
    • Spanish
  • Informe Nacional de Panamá
    • E/CONF.103/IP.7, Submitted by Panama - Agenda item 6(b)
    • Spanish
  • Country Report of United States of America
    • E/CONF.103/IP.8, Submitted by United States of America - Agenda item 6(b)
    • English | coverpage