Commission for the Management & Application of Geoscience Information (CGI)

An introduction to CGIInformation in general and digital information in particular, underpins all of the IUGS strategic objectives.CGI is helping to address a growing need to improve the quality and range of both information content and the applications that are used to acquire, analyse, process and disseminate geoscience data.It will do this by the exchange of knowledge and best practice and the support for standards.CGI is a new (strictly speaking, re-activated) Commission, founded by the IUGS in late 2002 following the demise of an earlier information Commission, COGEOINFO.Early tasks for CGI were to establish its objectives, set up its structure and modus operandi, elect its Council and establish a web presence.The new Commission was formally ratified by the IUGS at the IGC in Florence in 2004 and also held its first full Open Meeting there.For this meeting new Statutes were produced and agreed, elections were held for the Council, the CGI web site was completely overhauled and refreshed, flyers were designed and distributed, and invitations to the Open Meeting were mailed to over 1500 people worldwide -the aim being to make sure that as many people as possible would be aware of our existence.