The Digital Earth movement has held four international symposia since 1999, most recently in Tokyo in March 2005. The Auckland Summit will be the first opportunity to focus Digital Earth's extraordinary resources towards specific issues of sustainability in partnership with New Zealand's leaders to achieve its sustainability goals. Defining sustainability as humankind's collective survival goals means that there is no better objective for New Zealand's collective efforts.
The Auckland summit will play a crucial role in the gathering momentum of the Digital Earth movement. Specific outcomes from the Auckland Summit will help set the agenda for the 2007 International Symposium on Digital Earth to be held in San Francisco. In this way, New Zealand will set the challenge for the world's greatest scientific minds to address the opportunities identified to enhance the nation's sustainability.
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