WGIC Policy Committee tracker
WGIC Policy Scan, Q3 2026 (Volume 1, Issue 2)
WGIC’s quarterly tracker of policy, regulatory and standards developments. This edition walks through 40 developments across seven regions — what changed, what it means for geospatial businesses, and what to watch before Q4.
- Developments
- 40
- Regions
- 7
- Issue
- Vol. 1 · No. 2
Volume 1, Issue 2 · Q3 2026 · Published to registrants with the webinar, then available on request
Inside the paper
What the paper will cover.
Forty policy, regulatory and standards developments across seven regions — analyzed for geospatial business. The final edition is distributed to webinar registrants automatically, and available to everyone else on request after the event.
- 01
Data policy & governance — open-data mandates and national spatial data infrastructure
- 02
AI & emerging technology regulation — transparency rules touching GeoAI workflows
- 03
Standards & interoperability — what conformance will mean in practice
- 04
Space, Earth observation & sovereignty — EO funding, licensing and localization