User Community

Networking with other users is often the best way to get answers to your questions or identify opportunities to extend the benefits of GIS. ESRI supports user interaction through a variety of conferences, special interest group meetings, and user communication forums, both face-to-face and electronically.

User Groups

• Regional and Special Interest User Groups

Discussion Forum

• User Forums—Software Discussions

International Organizations

• UNECA Conference on Development Information (CODI)
• Organizations of American States
• Pan-American Health Organization
• United Nations Geographic Information Working Group
• UNGIWG: Administrative Level Boundaries Project
• United Nations Maps
• United Nations Environment Programme
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
• ReliefWeb
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Maps
• United Nations Human Settlements Program (HABITAT)
• The World Bank

Other

• Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESEN)
• EIS Africa
• Integrated Approaches to Participatory Development (IAPAD)—Participatory Avenues
• Iwokrama: International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development
• My Community, Our Earth: Geographic Learning for Sustainable Development
• National Geographic Society (NGS) Mapmachine
• Open Forum on Participatory Geographic Information Systems and Technologies
• Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
• Poverty Mapping
• United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
  • The GIS Edge in Post-Conflict Rebuilding
  • OpenEyes99
• Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation's (VVAF) Information Management & Mine Action Programs