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The Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS) is a coalition of leading international geospatial societies which can speak on behalf of the geospatial profession at international level, especially to the United Nations and other global stakeholders. Its second goal is to coordinate activities within the geospatial society and organisations

standardisation in the field of digital geographic information

"The CKC is a joint and interagency effort of the US Government and Department of Defense. It was created to primarily serve the socio-cultural requirements of the combatant commands. It also seeks to enhance collaboration among the larger socio-cultural research community The idea of collaborating in an open way is to support civilian and military planning and decision-making processes with the very best information and the most diverse views"

The vision of NDU Press is to lead the National Defense University Enterprise in publishing and disseminating vital and complex defense and national security scholarship in a variety of media to inform and influence defense and policy decisionmakers, as well as the joint professional military education community and interested public

This Map Library are assembled by The Afghanistan Team at the Civil-Military Fusion Centre and consists of hundreds of maps of Afghanistan and the surrounding region. The maps in the collection cover varying scopes, from regional and national levels to provincial, district and even city levels. The maps reflect information on a wide range of topics, themes and sectors, including humanitarian aid, infrastructure, natural resources and security, among others. The maps have been collected from credible open-sources, including international organisations, research bodies, governmental agencies and others.

The IASC Humanitarian Early Warning Service (HEWSweb) is an inter-agency partnership project aimed at establishing a common platform for humanitarian early warnings and forecasts for natural hazards. The main objective of HEWSweb is to bring together and make accessible in a simple manner the most credible early warning information available at the global level from multiple specialized institutions

The Global Health Observatory theme pages provide data and analyses on global health priorities. Each theme page provides information on global situation and trends highlights, using core indicators, database views, major publications and links to relevant web pages on the theme

Internews is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard

UN - OCHA has created a set of 500 freely available humanitarian icons to help relief workers present emergency and crisis-related information quickly and simply

Copernicus (previously Global Monitoring for Environment and Security - GMES) is an EU programme aimed at developing European information services based on satellite Earth Observation and in situ (non space) data..

This new flagship report - eTransform Africa - produced by the World Bank (WB) and the African Development Bank (ADB), with the support of the African Union, identifies best practice in the use of ICTs in key sectors of the African economy

A unique GLobal IDEntifier number (GLIDE) is generated from the beginning of 2004, by an "Automatic GLIDE Generator" for all new disaster events.The components of a GLIDE number consist of two letters to identify the disaster type (e.g. EQ - earthquake); the year of the disaster; a six-digit, sequential disaster number; and the three-letter ISO code for country of occurrence. So, for example, the GLIDE number for West-India Earthquake in India is: EQ-2001-000033-IND. It is widely used unclusive within UN , WB etc

JIPS - the Joint IDP Profiling Service - is an inter-agency service and was set up in 2009. Based in Geneva, JIPS is supervised by a Steering Committee comprised of the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre - Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC-IDMC), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Office of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

UN statistical database with currently 33 databases on all topics inclusive weather