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promote and provide consultancy and technical advice to = national standardization programs on innovation and research in names colle= ction, management and dissemination as well as to training courses. This co= mprises the development of multipurpose database solutions in the context o= f spatial data infrastructures for national, regional and global use;
maintain liaison with int= ernational standardization bodies like the Unicode Consortium rega= rding digital text encoding in the context of geographical= names, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Op= en Geospatial Consortium (OGC) with reference to the development of exchang= e standards for geographical names information and to web (gazetteer) servi= ces for the provision of geographical names information through the Interne= t;
provide consultancy and t= echnical advice to the UN-GGIM activities related to the fundament= al data theme =E2=80=98Geographical Names=E2=80=99 as well as to the suppor= t of geographical names data to the Agenda 2030, the Sustainable De= velopment Goals (SDG) monitoring;
promote, complement and support t= he =E2=80=9CUNECA Africa GeoNyms database/gazetteer initiative";
promote the use of persis= tent unique identifiers as crucial element of consistent names dat= a files and for, amongst others, Linked Open Data.