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From 1 to 4 December 2025, UNGSC, in collaboration with OICT and the UN Geospatial Network, organized the UN Maps Clinic sessions “Enhancing UN Maps – from the field, for the field”, remotely. Participated by more than 350 UN personnel from 67 UN entities, the UN Maps Clinics provided a series of interactive and hands-on sessions that showcased updates of UN Maps features and applications, demonstrated outputs, and gathered feedback for future enhancement. It co-designed the roadmap of UN Maps to better plan the future steps to deliver coordinated support for UN’s daily operational activities.

On 30 May, UNGSC Brindisi marked the 75th anniversary of Peacekeeping.

The United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) is at the forefront of adopting state-of-the-art geospatial technology to address UN operational needs. UN Maps was established in 2019 to support the mandates of UN peacekeeping missions and Agencies, Funds and Programmes based on a suite of geospatial solutions and by leveraging both UN-managed and open data sources.

The Second United Nations Maps Conference took place at the United Nations Information and Communications Technology facility (UNICTF) in Valencia, Spain, between 6 and 10 March 2023. It brought together around 45 entities and external partners to strengthen coordination, collaboration and the capacity of geospatial information to meet global challenges.

Following exchanges between the Geospatial Information Section of the United Nations and the Geographical Institute of Mali within the activities of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM), in Africa (UN-GGIM Africa) and of the Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB) programme, the offices agreed to organize a workshop for the development and capacity building for actors on geospatial information in Mali.