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Fourth Year of the Implementation of the PAIGH 2010-2020 Pan American Agenda

Organization of American States Pan American Institute of Geography and History. Fourth Year of the Implementation of the PAIGH 2010-2020 Pan American Agenda. Rodrigo Barriga-Vargas Secretary General. Specialized body of the inter- American system coordinated by the OAS.

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Fourth Year of the Implementation of the PAIGH 2010-2020 Pan American Agenda

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  1. Organization of American States • Pan American Institute of Geography and History Fourth Year of the Implementation of thePAIGH 2010-2020Pan American Agenda Rodrigo Barriga-VargasSecretaryGeneral

  2. Specialized body of the inter- American system coordinated by the OAS Founded in 1928, permanently headquartered in Mexico 21 member states(21 national sections)and 4 observer countries Assists member states with interpreting their territory based on geographic and historical analyses: • Continental vision • Innovative measures • Heightened scientific relevance Scientific program: Commissions on Cartography (1941)Geography (1946)History (1946)Geophysics (1969) • The PAIGH liaises with international organizations such as the FIG, ISO/TC211, ICA, ISPRS and GSDI. Over the past eleven years, 526 projects have been submitted to the consideration of the Officers with the participation of 14 countries

  3. The Agenda guides the relationship the PAIGH has with the inter - American system coordinated by the OAS. Expansion of the Institute's operations depends on its ability to receive additional administrative revenue since maintenance quotas have not changedsince 1996, 18 years ago • Climatechange • Territorialplanning • Naturaldisasters

  4. 3rd Central American Data Integration Workshop (El Salvador) AAG - PAIGH Session on Latin American Topics(USA) 23rd "José Joaquín Hungría Morell“ CourseonGeographicalNames (Panama) First Pan American Workshop on Geomagnetism (PANGEO)(Mexico)

  5. Silvio Zavala “ImagestoFightObscurity: Colonial PeruThroughtheIllustrations of BrotherPedro de Ocaña”, Beatriz C. Peña (Venezuela) Leopoldo Zea “IntroductiontoUruguayanThought”,Lía Berisso and Horacio Bernardo (Uruguay) Wallace W. Atwood (Unpublished work) “Art and Literature: Creating the Social Imaginary of the Porfiriato Elite, 1904-1912”, Imelda P. Ugalde (Mexico) HonoraryAffiliateNoé Pineda Portillo(Honduras) 50 years of service to the PAIGHHéctor Pena(Argentina) 25 years of continuous service to the PAIGH Francisco García(General Secretariat/ Mexico)

  6. Rodrigo Barriga-Vargas, Secretary General (Chile) • Rigoberto Magaña, • ActingPresident • (El Salvador) • Carlos López-Vázquez, • Chair of the Commission on • Cartography(Uruguay) • Jean Parcher, • Chair of the Commission on • Geography • (United States of America) • Walter Fernández, • Chair of the Commission on • Geophysics • (Costa Rica) Patricia Galeana, Chair of the Commission on History (Mexico)

  7. 20th General Assembly 20 Asamblea General Meetings of Consultation of the Commissions • 18th Meeting of Consultation of the • Commission on History • 19th Meeting of Consultation of the • Commission on Geography • 12th Meeting of Consultation of the • Commission on Geophysics • 22nd Meeting of Consultation of the • Commission on Cartography • Montevideo, Uruguay, November 18 - 22, 2013

  8. Cartography Geography History Geophysics Re-invigorate activities, work committees and groups Strengthen leadership role in the field of geography Disseminate historical topics in the media Pan American Laboratory for the Observation of Natural Disasters Produce SDI - GI Re-launch“Revista Cartográfica” Coalesce agency -academia-industry-NS

  9. PAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY A Specialized Body of the OAS We thank Santiago Borrero,the 2009-2013 Officers and the Member States’ representatives for the collaborationprovided for the preparation of this report

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