Commission 3 – Minutes of the Annual Meeting in
Cairo
Date of Meeting: Sunday,
April 17, 2005; 14:15 - 16:45
Place of Meeting:
Hotel Intercontinental Semiramis, Room Teeba 1
Minutes
1. Welcome address; Opening
Chair of Commission 3, Gerhard Muggenhuber, welcomes all participants
of the Annual Meeting and he welcomes specially the Honorary President
of FIG Bob Foster and FIG Council Member Ralph Schroth.
Greeting addresses to all participants were sent by the following
officers, delegates and correspondents of Commission 3, who could not
attend the meeting: Yerach Doytsher, Bela Markus, Keith Murray, Martin
Scheu, Tor Valstadt;
2. Adoption of Agenda
Adopted.
3. Introduction of Participants
All 25 participants introduced themselves and gave a short report on
their actual work and on ongoing projects in their
countries on Commission 3 relevant issues.
4. Report of Commission Chair
(Gerhard Muggenhuber)
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Marrakech Declaration:
FIG publication Nr.33 was translated by Muhammed Ettarid to Arabic and
French language. A printed Arabic version was distributed during the
conference in Cairo. The digital versions of this publication can be
downloaded from FIG Homepage or can be ordered at FIG office.
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ACCO-Meeting:
Task
force on commission structure: Bob Fosters reports
about the scare situation of candidates due to
high costs for this job. Due to lack of money the local organisations
cannot fund all the expenses for the commission chairs. The
actual situation is that there are some strong commissions
as Commission 3 and Commission 7. No change before 2010. The Council
decided to establish a Task Force to study the commission structure
after 2010 and also to study if there are any needs to the current
statutes and internal rules. The Council decided to appoint the
members of the Task Force as follows: Vice President Ken Allred,
Canada as the chairperson and Matt Higgins, ACCO, Iain Greenway, UK,
Teo CheeHai, Malaysia and Stephen Djaba, Ghana as members. The Council
will at the same time separately consider the need for any other
changes in the statutes (including the membership, possibility to
support member associations with economic difficulties and financial
support to Council members and Commission officers in the future).
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Working Plan
2007-2010: Incoming
commission chairs will shape the working plan until Munich
within the next months and invite all delegates and correspondents of
the Commissions to cooperate in the next period. Chryssy Potsiou, the
incoming chair of Commission 3, would welcome proposals for topics to
be focused for the working plan 2007-2010 as well as the cooperation
of all of you.
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Workshop
"eGovernment for eCiticen":
Kari Strande, Chair of Working
Group 3.1 (eGovernment & eCitizen) organised a pre-conference Workshop
with the above mentioned topic. The high attendance (more than 70
participants) and the final discussion were indicators for the demand
on information and knowledge exchange between different countries and
levels of profession.
A follow-up activity will be announced in time.
By interest on collaboration, please contact Kari by e-mail:
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Electronical
Newsletter: Within the next weeks the
Commission 3 Electronic Newsletter 2005 will be
delivered. Gerhard Muggenhuber and Reinfried
Mansberger are just compiling the CD. Please forward any
contents to be added as soon as possible to Gerhard (geomugg@gmx.at)
or Reinfried (Mansberger@boku.ac.at). Partners in our network would
appreciate information in French or Spanish.
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Reports on COM3
relevant conferences:
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World Urban Forum, September 2004, Barcelona, Spain.
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Inter-regional Conference on Strategies for Enhancing Rural-Urban
Linkages, October 2004, Nairobi, Kenya.
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3rd
FIG Regional Conference,
October 2004, Jakarta, Indonesia
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WPLA-Conference,
April 2005, Budapest, Hungary.
6. Incoming events
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FIG 4th Regional
Conference, Havana, Cuba, September, 25-29, 2005
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ISPRS Workshop on
Services and Applications of SDI, October 14-16, 2005, Hangzhou, China
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FIG COM3 Annual Meeting
2006 – The decision for the COM3 Annual Meeting 2006 is
still pending. Alternatives are:
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(1) FIG Regional Conference in Ghana,
March 2006;
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(2) Joint Meeting COM2/COM3/COM7 on
eServices in Budapest, Hungary, April 2006;
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(3) Meeting of COM3 on eGovernment for
e-Citizens somewhere in the Austrian Alps; March/April 2006.
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FIG 5th Regional
Conference, Accra, Ghana, March 9-12 2006
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XXIV FIG Congress
Munich, Germany, October 8-13, 2006
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FIG Working Week 2007,
Hong Kong SAR, China, May 12-17, 2007
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FIG Working Week 2008,
Stockholm, Sweden, June 14-19, 2008
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FIG Working Week 2009, Israel, dates to be confirmed
7. Working Plan
2007-2010
Chryssy
Potsiou, the incoming chair of commission 3 asks
for contributions. She proposes to pick up the
positive things from the last two periods and proceed on
these topics. Commission 3 should further on be so active as in the
last years. It is intended to produce one output per year. In her opinion the chair of a commission
has a coordinating role between the working groups, the vice-chairs and
the delegates and correspondents within the commission.
For your contribution
for interesting topics, for proposals for working
groups and working group chairs as well s for cooperation during
the next period please contact the incoming chair,
Chryssy Potsiou:
Chryssy
proposes to announce the topics for Regional Meetings
in advanced and focus the conferences to the
specified topics.
8. Any other business
- Gerhard Muggenhuber thanks all the participants for their
attendance and their contributions.
Participants:
Mohsen BADAWY
(Egypt), Jan BARES (Czech Republic), Peter BARTAK
(Intergraph),
Patrick BEZARD-FALGAS
(France), Muhammed
ESSADIKI (Morocco),
Robert W. FOSTER (USA),
Constantinos HADJIGEORGIOU
(Cyprus), Jens
HOLLÄNDER (Denmark),
Hans KNOOP
(Germany), Enikö KOVACS (Hungary),
Peter LAARAKER
(Netherlands), Jely
LANDRY (France),
Bo LAURI
(Sweden), Rob MAHONEY (UK), Reinfried MANSBERGER
(Austria), Robin
McLAREN (UK),
Gerhard MUGGENHUBER
(Austria), Hartmut MÜLLER (Germany),
Charles Chuck PEARSON
(USA), Chryssy POTSIOU
(Greece), Daniel
ROBERGE (Canada),
Jes RYTTERSGAARD
(Denmark), Ralf
SCHROTH (FIG-Council),
Kari STRANDE
(Norway), Jaap
ZEVENBERG (Netherlands)
Cairo, April.
2005; Reinfried MANSBERGER |
