• Promote greater understanding and awareness of the cultures, policies and practices associated with wise and effective use of geospatial information and technologies.
• Facilitate creation of processes for merging multipurpose land information with other geospatial information and intelligence in order to meet future economic and societal needs.
• Stimulate practices within the business community which provide interoperable tools and integrated data that, in turn, will enable people to compile, employ and visualize information in ways that will improve their knowledge and understanding of their community and the world.
• Establish an environment within its member institutions that fosters the creation and sharing of knowledge about new systems for developing sustainable and diverse economies.
• Work in collaboration with other institutions that are leading the development of various components of spatial data infrastructures and global datasets to promote implementation and use.
• Foster the implementation of academic multidisciplinary research and coursework that addresses geospatial science and geomatics as an integral component of building universal knowledge in the general populace concerning relationships and requirements of man-made and natural systems.
• Develop methods for transferring knowledge and understanding to public and private institutions and the general populace about geospatial information technology and its importance to economic and social progress.