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Seminar on State and Public Land Management was organised in
Verona, Italy, September 9-10, 2008, just before the FIG Commission 7
Annual Meeting. The seminar was organised by FIG Commission 7 and the Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG), in
co-operation with FIG Commission 9 and FAO Land Tenure and Management
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| The major goal of the seminar was to share
experience and discuss policy options and practices in
relation to state and public sector land management,
including between land managers, policy advisers and
decision makers and their professional advisers, and the
civil society organisations working in these areas. The seminar
aimed to help raise global
awareness of problems associated with state/public land and its
management, improve knowledge of good practices in this area, and
encourage these to be increasingly addressed in new development
initiatives. Web
site: www.collegio.geometri.vr.it/seminar/
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programme. Commission 7 Annual Meeting was organised in
Verona 11-15 September 2008,
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This Task Force, set up at the 2007 FIG General Assembly, has
been progressing its work. The Task Force is now pleased to provide
a summary
of the responses to its on-line questionnaire (which has now
been closed) and its outline plan for further work. All comments on
this document are welcome. Comments should be directed to the Task Force Chair,
Iain Greenway, email:
iain.greenway@btinternet.com.
The FIG General Assembly was held in Stockholm 15 and 19 June
2008. The General Assembly elected two new Vice Presidents for the
term of office 1.1.2009-31.12.2012. The new Vice Presidents are Mr.
Iain Greenway from United Kingdom and Mr. Teo CheeHai
from Malaysia.
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The General Assembly elected following chairs elect to
Commissions: Ms. Leonie Newnham (Commission 1), Dr. Yerach
Doytsher (Commission 3), Mr. Daniel Roberge (Commission 7)
and Dr. Frances Plimmer (Commission 9). Prof. Steven Frank
was appointed as Chair Elect to Commission 2, Dr. Michael
Sutherland to Commission 4, Mr. Mikael Lilje to
Commission 5 and Dr. Gethin W. Roberts to Commission 6.
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New member associations were adopted from the Philippines and
from Bulgaria and affiliate members from the Netherlands, United
Arab Emirates, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, USA as well as from Iraq,
Lao People's Democratic Republic and Russian Federation (Siberian
State Academy of Geodesy).
The General Assembly also endorsed the
Costa Rica Declaration on
Pro-Poor Coastal Zone Management and adopted the
FIG Statutes and Internal
Rules.
You can read the minutes
now on the web. Hard copies of the minutes including copies of the
latest FIG publications and the new FIG Profile have been circulated
to all members. You can download here the
minutes (short
version as a .pdf version) and
handouts of the finance report as promised to be circulated
together with the minutes.
Full set of
minutes as a .pdf-file (56 pages) is also available. A
larger report of the
General Assembly and the
Working Week is now available.
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Applications for a grant from the FIG
Foundation in 2008
The Board of Directors of the FIG
Foundation has announced the
grants from The FIG Foundation for 2008. Applications were to be submitted
to the Foundation at the FIG Office by 15 May 2008. The FIG
Foundation offers total grants up to 20,000 € in 2008. The
guidance notes for the application are
now available as well
as the application form in .pdf-format
and in .doc-format.
Decision on the grants will be made in June 2008.
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The General Assembly will elect two Vice Presidents to the FIG
Council and Chairs Elect to all ten technical Commissions at its
meeting in Stockholm 14-19 June 2008. The Council has received four
nominations for the position of Vice President and 12 nominations
for the position of Chair Elect. The Council has decided to publish
the names of the candidates
together with the nomination templates. The full agenda for the
General Assembly will be published and shipped to the members 14
April 2008.
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The FIG Annual Review June 2006 - December
2007 has now been published. Hard copies of the annual
review have been mailed to all members. If
you have not received your copy, you can contact the FIG
office, email: FIG@fig.net.
You can also download the FIG Annual Review from here:
The FIG
Annual Review June 2006 - December 2007 in pdf-format
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