WGIC at Geo Week 2023 – Activities and Engagements
WGIC will actively participate in Geo Week 2023 as a strategic partner exhibiting at the event, organizing industry-relevant sessions and a meeting of WGIC members.
WGIC brings the collective voice of global geospatial industry to the Conference of Parties (COP): Barbara Ryan
In this interview, the World Geospatial Industry Council’s Executive Director, Barbara Ryan, shared the details of WGIC’s participation in this year’s Conference of Parties (COP27). She highlighted the role of WGIC and its members in addressing the climate action at the two key venues, the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND) and Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM), and elaborated on the key outcomes from both events.
WGIC Secretariat December 21, 2022
Climate Action – WGIC Gains Global Recognition, Launches Africa Project
After bagging the prestigious 2021 Prince Talal International Prize for Human Development for its collaborative work on the significance of geospatial and Earth observation solutions in climate action, WGIC pledges to advance its commitment and launches “Leveraging Commercial Geospatial Capabilities for Climate Action in Africa Project” at COP27.
Spatial Digital Twins Present $25Bn Market Opportunity for Geospatial Industry
Following the increasing awareness of the potential of digital twin technology, the global market size of this technology is expected to grow substantially.
WGIC Guidelines: Value Creation to Digital Twin Ecosystem
WGIC identifies guidelines and recommendations for the geospatial industry to continue to add value to the digital twin ecosystem.
New WGIC Geospatial Ecosystem Report Shows UN-GGIM IGIF Alignment
WGIC’s Geospatial Ecosystem Report shows the alignment of its policy advocacy funded by the private sector with the UN-GGIM IGIF strategic pathways (Policy and Legal, Innovation, and Financial).
WGIC Announces Inaugural DEI Trailblazer Awards, Esri India and Clinton Johnson Receive Honors
WGIC announced the winners of the inaugural DEI Trailblazer 2022 Awards during INTERGEO 2022 in Essen, Germany. Esri India won the WGIC DEI Trailblazer – Corporate Impact Award, and Clinton Johnson, Racial Equity and Social Justice Solutions Lead, Esri, won WGIC DEI Trailblazer – Individual Champion Award.
When we started the DEI conversation within WGIC, members unanimously agreed about the lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion: Albert Momo
Albert Momo, the World Geospatial Industry Council’s (WGIC) DEI Committee Chair and Vice President & Executive Director of Trimble’s Emerging Markets and Funded Projects, joins Matt Sprague and co-host Lisa Ruggeri from Trimble to share his thoughts about the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in geospatial and construction industry.
Spatial Digital Twins Assessment – the Current Situation
The assessment of the digital twin technology development level allows a clearer understanding of the challenges, trends, and capability and capacity for its deployment. Reliable insights on this help to better understand the challenges of this new technology to address them effectively. In brief, these are the aspects of the current spatial digital twin assessment covered in the World Geospatial Industry Council’s (WGIC) recently released policy report.
Envisioning the Future Digital Twins – WGIC Way
Just like the physical world is interconnected and globalized, digital twins enabled by spatial components will be interconnected and integrated into the world. In a nutshell, this is the vision of spatial digital twins that the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) envisages in its recent report.
