Third United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress المؤتمر العالمي الثالث للأمم المتحدة للمعلومات الجيومكانية

The Third United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress convenes under the theme “Navigating the Next Frontier: Embracing the Digital Renaissance and a New Geospatial Paradigm,” bringing together the global geospatial community to collectively explore and shape the future of geospatial information management. The Congress provides a global and strategic platform to navigate this next frontier by embracing a digital geospatial renaissance, reimagining the application of integrated geospatial insights, information and infrastructure for the collective good, and fostering a future-ready geospatial ecosystem.

The emerging digital and knowledge age is not only transforming technologies, data ecosystems and institutional frameworks, but also catalysing a profound paradigm shift in how geospatial knowledge is generated, integrated and applied. Increasingly, geospatial information is positioned as a critical enabler for addressing complex global challenges, supporting sustainable development, and advancing societal well-being through more informed, timely and evidence-based decision-making.

Against this backdrop, the theme underscores both the urgency and the opportunity for the global geospatial community to move beyond incremental advancements. It calls for a bold reimagining of geospatial information management—one that is anchored in integration, innovation and collaboration—and that fully harnesses the power of geospatial data, technologies and partnerships to deliver transformative impact for people, place and planet.

In doing so, the Congress aims to inspire a new geospatial paradigm that is adaptive, interoperable and purpose-driven, positioning geospatial information at the core of the broader digital transformation agenda and the collective pursuit of a more sustainable and equitable future.