Professional standards and practice

The overall theme is: "Embracing our smart world where the continents connect: enhancing the geospatial maturity of societies." A few years ago, we identified the need for providing reliable, evidence-based open and/or low-cost data. But today we realize that we have an additional task to ensure that these data is used intelligently and through that to ensure the transition from the stage of a “spatially enabled” society to the stage of a “spatially mature” society: a society that is able to use the available spatial information and tools in a smart way in order to achieve sustainable prosperity for all.