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Major FIG Conferences FIG Platinum Corporate Members FIG Working Week web site: www.fig.net/fig2011 and www.onigt.ma/fig2011 (French and Arabic) Call for papers as a .pdf file Submit your abstract online at: http://www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=13 Deadline for abstracts and peer review papers: 12 November 2010 Final invitation and web site will be updated by the end of September 2010

• FIG organised or co-sponsored events this and coming months

• Article of the Month - September 2010

  In the FIG Article of the Month series high-level papers focusing on interesting topics to all surveyors are published. The paper can be picked up from FIG conference or another event. The Article of the Month in September 2010 is "Customary Tenure Institutions and Good Governance". It is written by Anthony ARKO-ADJEI, Ghana and Jitske de JONG, Jaap ZEVENBERGEN and Arbind TULADHAR from the Netherlands. This paper is a peer reviewed paper prepared for the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. At the Congress it was presented by Prof. Jaap Zevenbergen in an invited session about land governance in Africa. It gives good information about customary tenure and good governance in Ghana, and could be of interest to other African countries. Handouts of this presentation as a .pdf file.

• FIG e-Newsletter

  You can download the latest FIG e-Newsletter - August 2010 from here as a .pdf-file. If you do not already get your copy of the e-Newsletter you can order it now from http://www.fig.net/pub/subscriptions/getnewsletter.htm.

• FIG Working Week 2011 - Bridging the Gap between Cultures - Marrakech, Morocco, 18-22 May 2011

FIG Working Week and General Assembly 2011 will be held in Marrakech, Morocco 18-22 May 2011. Final invitation will be available by the end of September 2010. At the same time the web site and registration information will be updated. Please note that deadline for peer review papers and abstracts is 12 November 2010. For all papers submit your abstract online. FIG Working Week web site: www.fig.net/fig2011 and www.onigt.ma/fig2011 (French and Arabic) Call for papers as a .pdf file Submit your abstract online at: http://www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=13 Deadline for abstracts and peer review papers: 12 November 2010

• FIG Commissions 5 and 6 Workshop on “Innovative Technologies for an Efficient Geospatial Management of Earth Resources” - Blue Bay Recreation Centre, Zyryanovsky Region, Kazakhstan, 3-7 September 2010

  FIG Commission 5 and 6 Workshop on “Innovative Technologies for an Efficient Geospatial Management of Earth Resources” 3-7 September 2010 will be the first FIG event to be held in Kazakhstan. This workshop is organised by FIG, Agency of RK for Land Resources Management, D. Serikbaev East Kazakhstan State Technical University, and Siberian State Academy of Geodesy (SSGA). Read more about the workshop in the invitation brochure and on the workshop web site: http://www.ektu.kz/

• FIG Council adopts the Sydney Declaration and new members at its meeting in July

  FIG Council discussing the issues related to the FIG Congress in Sydney.

  The FIG Council had a Council meeting by email in July to follow up the outcome of the FIG Congress in Sydney. At this meeting the final version of the Sydney Declaration was endorsed. The Council also approved new members: the Ethiopian Surveying Professionals Association (ESPA) as a member association (to be endorsed by the General Assembly; China Land Surveying and Planning Institute as affiliate member; two new corporate members: FARO and Hi-Target Survey Instruments Company Ltd from China both at silver level; and Zonguldak Karaelmas University as a new academic member. In addition arrangements for the handover meeting 25-26 November 2010 were approved.

• Vice President CheeHai Teo attends seminar on Land Surveying Basis for Development - Gadong, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, 2 August 2010

The Honourable Minister of Development, Negara Brunei Darussalam making his officiating address at the Seminar

The Survey Department, Ministry of Development, Negara Brunei Darussalam, an affiliate member of FIG and the Brunei Institute of Geomatics, a member association of FIG, invited FIG to the Seminar “Land Surveying Basis for Development”. Vice President Teo held a keynote presentation during the official opening session. The one day seminar highlighted not just the latest developments in land surveying practices and technologies but also the significant role and contribution of surveyors towards development. Read more...

• Vice President Teo attends the 14th Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors Congress and Board Meeting - Singapore, 25 July 2010

Chairman of PAQS TEOH WeiSin  and FIG Vice President TEO CheeHai during the 14th PAQS Board Meeting.

FIG was invited to the 14th PAQS Congress and the Board Meeting of the Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors by the current Chairman of the PAQS, Mr. TEOH WeiSin (from the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers), to address and interact with the PAQS Board over the proposed collaboration and MoU between FIG and PAQS. The meeting was held at the Resort World Convention Centre, Sentosa Island in Singapore on the 25th July 2010. Read more...

• Vice President Teo attends the Expert Group Meeting on Transparency in Land Administration: A Human Capacity Building Agenda for South and South East Asia - Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 19-22 July 2010

Participants at the Expert Group Meeting in Yogyakarta.

Transparency in land administration (TLA) is the first and foremost training program that the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) has been implementing in cooperation with the Training and Capacity Building Branch (TCBB) of UN-HABITAT and the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente. This joint activity for South and South East Asia was hosted by the Department of Geodetic Engineering, Gahjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. FIG was represented by Vice President TEO CheeHai. Read more...

• FIG President Stig Enemark attends the ISPRS Centenary Celebrations - Vienna, Austria, 4 July 2010

ISPRS President Orhan Altan and FIG President Stig Enemark.

The International Society for Photogrammetry ISP (now International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, ISPRS) celebrated its 100 year anniversary at the Technical University of Vienna. President Stig Enemark represented FIG. As part of the celebrations the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies JB GIS launched a new publication “Geoinformation for Disaster Risk Management” at the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA).  Read more....

• FIG Congress 2010 - Facing the Challenges – Building the Capacity - Biggest FIG Congress in the history full of professional highlights - Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010 - Read the Congress report see the picture galleries and read final proceedings

• Vacancies and project opportunities (last updated 30 August 2010 - The Netherlands, New Mexico and UN-HABITAT)

• Personalia and visits

• Other news from the last months and World around FIG - News

• Benefits from FIG Corporate Members to FIG members and members of FIG member associations

• FIG Surveying Education Database (SEDB) 

The Surveying Education Database (SEDB) on Professional Education is in full operation. Universities and institutions are able with their user-ID and password to make changes directly to the database. Any academic department offering graduate and post-graduate courses in any surveying discipline can place a standard entry on the SEDB. The Surveying Education Database is a major benefit for being an  Academic Member of FIG. Academic Members of FIG can add a picture and additional information to their standard entries.

• Latest FIG Publications and Newsletters

  • Informal Urban Development in Europe - Experiences from Albania and Greece. Published by UN-HABITAT in cooperation with FIG, GLTN - Global Land Tool Network and Technical Chamber of Greece, August 2010.
  • Geoinformation for Disaster and Risk Management, Examples and Best Practices. Publication of the Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies, July 2010
    • Geoinformation for Disaster Risk Management. FIG contribution to the publication
  • XXIV FIG Congress - Facing the Challenges - Building the Capacity, Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010 - Proceedings
  • Joint WB/FIG/GLTN/FAO publication on Innovations in Land Rights Recognition, Administration and Governance. Joint Discussion Paper, April 2010.
  • FIG Annual Review 2009
  • FIG Publication No. 45: Land Governance in Support of The Millennium Development Goals. A New Agenda for Land Professionals. FIG / World Bank Conference, Washington DC, USA 9–10 March 2009. FIG Policy Statement, 2010.
  • FIG Publication No. 46: Enhancing Surveying Education through e-Learning. A publication of FIG Commission 2 – Professional Education. FIG Report, 2010.
  • FIG Publication No. 47: Institutional and Organisational Development - A Guide for Managers. FIG Guide, 2010.
  • FIG Publication No. 48: Rapid Urbanization and Mega Cities: The Need for Spatial Information Management. Research study by FIG Commission 3. FIG Report 2010.
  • FIG Publication No. 49: Cost Effective GNSS Positioning Techniques. FIG Commission 5 Publication. FIG Report, 2010.
  • FIG Publication No. 50: History of Surveying. FIG Report 2010
  • FIG Publication No. 51: Hanoi Declaration: Land Acquisition in Emerging Economies. FIG Policy Statement, 2010
  • FIG Publication No. 52: The Social Tenure Domain Model - A Pro-Poor Land Tool. FIG Report, 2010
  • FAO and FIG Commission 7 WG 7.3 publication "FLOSS in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risks"
  • The FIG Profile and the benefits of being a member 2007 - 2010. FIG leaflet in .pdf-format.

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