Following the first Preparatory Meeting on Global Geographic InformationManagement in Bangkok, on Sunday 25 October 2009, prior to the 18 the UNRCC-AP, the United Nations Statistics Division/DESA (UNSD), jointly with the UN Cartographic Section ( UNCS ), has organised the 2nd meeting to discuss the terms of reference and the modalities of work for the global forum and the Committee of Experts , the proposal of a global inter-governmental mechanism to coordinate the various activities on global geographic information management. GSDI President (Associate Prof Abbas Rajabifard) has attended this meeting on behalf of GSDI and on the request from UN, Associate Prof Rajabifard has also presented a scoping paper on the topic of data integration and interoperability of data and systems.