GISuser.com OGC appoints three new members to its Board of Directors May 4, 2021 By Editor The new appointees’ diverse sets of experiences will inform the strategy of the Consortium and help instill innovation. 4 April 2021: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the election of Patty Mims, Javier de la Torre, and Prashant Shukle to its Board of Directors. The new appointments bring experience in defense & intelligence, homeland security, cloud-native GIS, data science, environmental data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Earth Observation, and more. “Technology-enabled global location services offer the opportunity for us to enable solutions to improve the effectiveness and security of our global village,” commented OGC Chair, Jeffrey Harris. “The addition to our Board of these talented and respected geospatial community leaders will add great value. Their diverse sets of experiences will inform the strategy of the Consortium to help instil innovation across people and devices to speed delivery, discovery, and decision-making.”