News from
Commission 8
ATF Workshop 2011 - 30 November - 2 December
2011
The 2011 ATF Workshop will be held in Cape Town,
South Africa hosted by FIG Partners:
- The South African Council for Professional
and Technical Surveyors (PLATO) and
- Geomatics department of the University of Cape Town.
Registration by 18th September to:
Soraya Shaffie
soraya.shaffie@uct.ac.za or Diane Dumashie
ddd@dumashie.co
Young Surveyors Network encourages
Young Surveyors to attend the Workshop
Commission 8 at the FIG Working Week, May 2011 Marrakech
Morocco
Final Newsletter from Commission Chair Diane Dumashie
2007-2010
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Commission 8 delegates at the Commission 8 meeting in Sydney in
connection with the FIG Congres 2010 |
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African Task Force Workshop 11-12 November, Mombassa,
Kenya
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FIG African Task Force is proud to announce that agreement
has been reached with the Institute of Surveyors in Kenya (ISK)
to hold the first Africa Task Force Workshop in Mombassa. ISK have
demonstrably proved active in Kenya, having been instrumental in taking
on the role of advocates with the community in the recent government
activity in Land reform on Kenya. Their skills as acting as change
agents in Africa will lend itself to the objectives of the Task force in
debating and proposing tools for individual land professional members in
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Chair of Commission 8, Diane Dumashie, visited
the 2010 international conference: Property RIghts, Economic Instruments
and Biodiversity, Aix-en-Provence, France, 17-19 June 2010
Commission 8 at the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010
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Wafula Nabutola |
Commission 8 had its meeting during the
FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. The
General Assembly appointed Mr. Wafula Nabutola from Kenya as
the Chair of Commission 8 for 2011-2014.
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GhIS/CASLE/FIG Conference in Accra Ghana,
22-28 February 2010
The Ghana Institution of Surveyors, CASLE and FIG Commission 8
jointly organised an international conference "The Surveyor: Partner In
National Development - Towards the Millennium Development Goals - Taking
Stock of Progress" in Accra Ghana 22-28 February 2010.
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The Joint
Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection was organised in Beijing, China P. R.
18-19 October 2008 by the China Institute of
Real Estate Appraisers and Agents (CIREA), The Hong Kong Institute of
Surveyors (HKIS) and the International Federation of Surveyors, FIG
Commission 9 - Valuation and the Management of Real Estate in
co-operation with FIG Commission 8 - Spatial Planning and Development.
The major goal of this seminar was to intensify the
discussion between valuers, surveyors, real estate experts, investors,
financiers, urban planners, researchers, teachers and decision makers
and develop common ideas for shaping the future.
Web site:
www.fig.net/commission9/beijing_2008.
Report of the seminar
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FIG Working Week 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June
2008
Commission 8 Annual Meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden
during the FIG Working Week 2008,
14-19 June 2008, web site: www.fig.net/fig2008. Technical sessions and proceedings are available
at: www.fig.net/pub/fig2008.
Dr. Diane Dumashie was appointed as Chair of Commission 8 for
2007-2010.
Commission
8 Annual Report for the General Assembly as a .pdf-file.
FIG Working Week 2008 in Stockholm, June 2008 -
Commission 8
Chairman’s Overview Report by Dr. Diane Dumashie, FRICS.
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FIG established a working group to highlight the
current and future need for research and action in the field of
disaster risk management in the year 2003. After three years of
research in the form of expert meetings as well as papers and
posters presented at the FIG conferences, FIG publication presents
application-oriented concepts, methods and instruments for an
effective disaster risk management. The publication is result of the
work of FIG Working Group 8.4 on Risk and Disaster Management.
ISBN-10:
87-90907-58-2 |
FIG Congress in Munich, Germany, 8-13 October 2006
FIG Working Week in Cairo, Egypt, 16-21 April 2005
Simon Adcock from Australia elected as new Commission 8
Chair Elect
 The
FIG General Assembly appointed Mr. Simon Adcock from Australia as
the new Chair Elect of Commission 8 after Dr. Spike Boydell resigned for
personal reasons some weeks before the Working Week in Cairo. Simon will
be the Chair Elect in 2005-2006 and then automatically follow Dr. Diane Dumashie as the Chair of Commission 8 in 2006-2010. You can read more
about Simon Adcock
in his CV.
Commission 8 attends the Regional Conference in Jakarta,
3-7 October 2004 - Read Report from
the Chair
FIG Working Week in Athens, 22-27 May 2004
 Diane Dumashie
was appointed to Commission 8 Chair
for 2004-2006. Diane is a private surveyor running her own company
Dumashie Associates
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