On the eve of Geospatial World Forum, World Geospatial Industry Council [WGIC] and International Telecommunication Union [ITU] announced their partnership to work together for making Information and Communication technologies available to all. It is a great opportunity for two major organizations to bring their respective areas of work together to create a better-connected world for all of its people.

A collaboration to enhance the usage of BIM standards in civil infrastructure and to link it to location-based technologies has taken concrete shape with the signing of the MoU between World Geospatial Industry council [WGIC] and buildingSMART International.

During the Inter-Geo event in Frankfurt Germany, two major organizations working in geospatial space – World Geospatial Industry Council [WGIC] and Open Geospatial Consortium [OGC] came together to create greater awareness, understanding and adoption of geospatial technologies across industries and the government sector.