BRICS Geospatial Collaboration Working Group Meeting of Experts held for the first time
GREATER NOIDA LOKESH GOSWAMI
Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, March 2, 2016: The first BRICS working group meeting geospatial technologies (BRICS-WG-GS) was held today at GeoSmart India 2016 with India as the lead. Based on the theme ‘Geospatial Technologies for Good Governance and Decision- making’, the meet was jointly organized by Department of Science & Technology’s NRDMS- NSDI division and International Multilateral and Regional Cooperation division along withGeospatial Media. The aim of the meeting held under the aegis of the BRICS Moscow Declaration 2015 is to promote geospatial research, technology development and applications at national, regional and global levels amongst the BRICS countries. The meeting culminated into agreement towards partnership in the areas of Science, Technology and Innovation. The areas of cooperation discussed at the event were on geospatial information policies, earth observation and its applications, land information system, human resources and capacity building and industry engagement.As known, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are the five most importantemerging economies in the world today. The countries have acknowledged and leveraged fromm use of Geospatial technologies for Infrastructure Development, g-Governance, Land Management, ensuring Food Security, bettering health and education services- to name a few. As BRICS nations collaborate on a number of fronts supporting each other’s growth and development, collaboration and support within the geospatial domain is also natural and important.The BRICS Geospatial Collaboration Working Group Meeting had representatives of geospatial domain from the respective countries apart from South Africa discussing on evolving strategies of geospatial cooperation, identify common areas of interest, evolve mechanisms for common call of proposals, disseminate identified areas of interest among scientific and technical communities, evolve PPP mechanisms for catalyzing B2B relationships and providing inputs to the BRICS science and technology innovation ministerial group.About Geospatial Media and Communications Geospatial Media and Communications is an internationally accredited organization, having committed itself to serve stakeholders of geospatial community and work towards opening new era of industrialisation and productisation, while facilitating collaboration and demonstrating value and benefits of geospatial technology and information for governance, businesses and people.
