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FIG Commission 7 Newsletter


World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty

23-25 April 2012, Washington D.C., USA. Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, organised by The World Bank. Call for paper is opened. Deadline 31 October 2011
Web site and call for paper: http://www.landandpoverty.com/ 


FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 2011and International Symposium „Cadastre 2.0“
25 September - 1 October 2011, Grillhof, Innsbruck, Austria

The Proceedings of the International FIG Symposium "Cadastre 2.0" are obtainable.
Price € 25,-- incl. tax and postage. Please order it here


FIG Commission 7, Newsletter


Commission 7 at the FIG Working Week, May 2011 Marrakech Morocco


Final Newsletter from Commission Chair András Ossko 2007-2010

Cadastral Template - A Worldwide Comparison of Cadastral Systems

The "Cadastral Template" has been developed by a research group at the Department of Geomatics of the University of Melbourne. It consists of cadastral country reports based on a jointly developed PCGIAP/FIG template.


FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and International Open Symposium, 5-10 September, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

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András Osskó and Daniel Roberge

FIG Commission 7 in cooperation with the Czech Union of Surveyors and Cartographers organized its Annual Meeting between 5 and 11 September 2010 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. Commission 7 has had a 20 year tradition organizing annual meetings each year, separately from major FIG events, based on the consensus of Commission 7 delegates. The Annual Meeting 2010 was the last of a four year period chaired by Mr. András Osskó, Hungary. There was a record number of participation in the Annual Meeting 2010 showing the importance of land administration matters world wide. 57 delegates attended this annual meeting from 32 countries representing all of the continents.
The proceedings will be available soon.

Invitation to Commission 3 and 7 Workshop - 15-17 November 2010, Sofia, Bulgaria as well as Commission 3 Annual Meeting

Theme of the Workshop is "Information and Land Management. A Decade after the Millennium".
Web site: www.conference.kig-bg.org 
Invitation and call for paper (PDF)


Commission 7 at the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010

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Daniel Roberge

Commission 7 had its meeting during the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. The General Assembly appointed Mr. Daniel Roberge from Canada as the Chair of Commission 7 for 2011-2014.


Commission 7 Newsletter - December 2009

FAO and FIG Commission 7 WG 7.3 publication "FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risks"
FAO Land Tenure Group and FIG Commission 7 WG 7.3 have launched a publication “FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risks”. Land administration and cadastral systems in the 21st century depend on the use of information technology (IT) tools. The application of these tools affects very much the systems’ efficiency and costs. While commercial softwares have helped to establish the infrastructures of today and continue to do so, open-source alternatives, which have achieved considerable significance in many IT fields, have grown to provide credible alternatives for consideration. For various reasons, however, they are not often used in land administration and cadastre, even when their potential is increasingly recognised. This booklet aims to shed light on this potential, exploring the advantages, and disadvantages of open source solutions within the context of cadastre and land registration. The publication is the result of four years of cooperation between FAO and FIG WG 7.3.

FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 2009 and One-Day Open Symposium on "Progressing Towards u-Cadastre" - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12-16 October 2009

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One-day Open Symposium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This year's FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia just before the Regional Conference. More than 40 delegates from 22 countries participated the meeting. At the meeting András Osskó, Chair of the Commission, and Commission 7 working group chairs gave reports on the Commission 7 activities. The One-day Open Symposium on „Progressing Towards ubiquitous Cadastre” was a successful event: Besides of international delegates more than 200 professionals attended from Malaysia and and neighbouring countries. Read more...

What is Commission 7?

Commission 7 deals with land administration ('the process of determining, recording, and disseminating information about the ownership, value and use of land when implementing land management policies', ref. UNECE Land Administration Guidelines 1996). 'Ownership' should be seen as a broad concept of land tenure within various jurisdictions (statutory, customary, informal etc.). 'Land' includes constructions at subsurface level, ground level and above land level (e.g. buildings). Furthermore Commission 7 deals with land management, that is the implementation of land policy, by a wide range of land policy instruments (e.g. land reform, land consolidation, land markets, land taxation, marine resource management etc.).

In 'key words' Commission 7 deals with

  • land tenure
  • institutional context of land
  • land law and land related laws
  • land related public administration
  • public and private roles in land administration
  • land registration and land recording
  • cadastres, land registers and cadastral maps
  • cadastral surveying and mapping
  • non parcel based land information systems
  • informal settlements and formalization processes
  • land related information management and business administration
  • re-engineering and cadastral reform
  • land policy and land policy instruments
  • land markets, land use planning, land taxation
  • land and marine resource management
  • land reform and land redistribution
  • land consolidation and urban land readjustment
  • access to land by women and vulnerable groups

 The Commission is organised with four Working Groups.


Chair of FIG Commission 7
Mr. Daniel Roberge
Bureau de l'arpenteur général du Québec
5700, 4e avenue O., Bureau F 310
Charlesbourg, Québec
G1H 6R1
CANADA
Tel: +1 418-627-6263 x 2646
Fax: +1 418-643-6512
E-mail: daniel.roberge@mrnf.gouv.qc.ca
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International Federation of Surveyors, FIG
Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
DK-1780 Copenhagen V
DENMARK
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