gvSIG Joins United Nation’s Mountain Partnership
The gvSIG Association is a new Mountain Partnership member, with GIS maps as focal point. The Mountain Partnership is a United Nations voluntary alliance of partners dedicated to improving the lives of mountain people and protecting mountain environments around the world.
“The gvSIG Association hopes to collaborate in this international alliance, working together with the common objective to achieve sustainable mountain development around the world,” the association said.
The Mountain Partnership addresses challenges facing mountain regions by tapping the wealth and diversity of resources, knowledge, information and expertise, from and between its members, to stimulate concrete initiatives at all levels that will ensure improved quality of life and environments in the world’s mountain regions.
Currently, 53 governments, 14 intergovernmental organizations, and 167 major groups (such as civil society, NGOs, and the private sector) are members.
“With this agreement, we add our knowledge and experience in free geomatics to the work of a lot of organizations that take part in this alliance already,” the gvSIG Association said.
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Senior Editor Tracy Cozzens joined GPS World magazine in 2006. She also is editor of GPS World’s newsletters and the sister website Geospatial Solutions. She has worked in government, for non-profits, and in corporate communications, editing a variety of publications for audiences ranging from federal government contractors to teachers.
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