1. The EFGS project a common voluntary cooperation Vilni Verner Holst Bloch President of European Forum for Geostatistics Statistics Norway EFGS 2014 conference Krakow,Poland 23rd to 25th of October www.efgs.info European Statistical System (ESS): http://www.essnet-portal.eu/essnet-generalities http://www.essnet-portal.eu/essnet-generalities

2. EFGS started as a voluntary cooperation between National Statistical Institutions (NSIs) in the Nordic countries in 1998, on use of geographic information systems (GIS) and statistics. Today EFGS has national contact persons from 32 European states and territories, having annual conferences and meetings. The Steering Committee consists of the national contact persons from the NSIs elected at EFGS General assembly. Activities are concentrated on the development of the best practices in the integration of geography and statistics in Europe. EFGS aims at beeing a global forum and umbrella organisation from conference in Brazil in 2015. About European Forum for GeoStatistics www.efgs.info

3. Organisation General assembly Steering committee Executive steering committee Task force Dissemination Task force Business models Task force Global Forum for Geostatistics www.efgs.info

4. Project Geostat www.efgs.info

6. A global task force initiative by EFGS www.efgs.infowww.efgs.info Voluntary professional network for merging geography and statistics Focus on global issues and cooperation between national statistical institutes/mapping agencies and research institutions ARGENTINA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BRAZIL BULGARIA CROATIA CZECH REPUBLIC DENMARK ECUADOR ESTONIA EUROSTAT FINLAND FRANCE GEORGIA GERMANY GREEC HUNGARY ICELAND INDONESIA IRELAND ITALY KOSOVO LATVIA LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG MEXICO NORWAY POLAND PORTUGAL ROMANIA SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND THE NETHERLANDS THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA TURKEY UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ÅLAND

7. A network in change 1998-2012 Before 2010 2010 After 2010 www.efgs.info + Australia, Indonesia, USA

8. website www.efgs.info

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10. Users by browsers www.efgs.info 2013/20142012/20132011/2012 website

11. Visitors by language www.efgs.info website

12. 1998 Voss Norway 2000 Stockholm Sweden 2002 Oslo Norway 2003 Helsinki Finland 2004 Copenhagen Denmark 2005 Stockholm Sweden 2006 Kongsvinger Norway 2007 Helsinki Finland 2008 Bled Slovenia 2009 den Haag Netherlands 2010 Tallinn Estonia 2011 Lisboa Portugal 2012 Prague Czech Republic 2013 Sofia Bulgaria 2014 Krakow Poland 2015 Rio de Janeiro Brazil ++ Conferences 1998 - www.efgs.info

13. Welcome to Krakow and EFGS 2014 www.efgs.info