Southwest
Jiaotong University (SWJTU) as one of the Academic Network members of the
Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) has been effectively
contributed to the 17 agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030.
The 9th session of the UN-GGIM was held on 7-9 August 2019 at the United Nations
Headquarters in New York. Several side events were conducted on August 5-6,
2019 too.
Dr. Saeid
(Adam) Pirasteh from the faculty of geosciences and environmental engineering
(FGEE) has represented SWJTU at the Academic Network of UN-GGIM 2019 annual
session at the United Nations headquarters, New York from August 5-9, 2019. In
this meeting, Saeid pushed the SWJTU internationalization and emphasized on the
importance of working all together to build our world better with a safer
environment and good future generations.
Several
meetings were conducted in 5 days to support the UN-GGIM international
collaboration in global geospatial information management and SDGs 2030. The
SWJTU has played active role participation at the Academic Network to
contribute the capacity building and new ideas toward UN-GGIM implementation
and SDGs 2019.
A productive meeting
of Academic Network Members of the UN-GGIM was conducted at the UN headquarters
New York on 8th August 2019. Besides, the Committee of Experts on UN-GGIM was
conducted at the UN headquarters, New York on August 5-8, 2019.