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

• FIG Working Week 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden - 14-19 June 2008

  

  Draft of the Technical Programme is now available. All authors had to register by 30 April 2008 as otherwise their paper will not be included in the final programme. You can still register to the conference. Please book your hotel by 15 May 2008 as June will be high season for conferences in Stockholm and the organisers cannot guarantee hotels after this deadline. You can still make additional bookings to technical tours and social events, please notice that some events like Welcome Reception are almost fully booked. www.fig.net/fig2008/techprog.htm See the conference deadlines here. Register online from this link: https://www.fig.net/registrations/regform.asp?eventid=50 Registration to UN-HABITAT Dialogues - to be able to register you need to have registered to the FIG Working Week Programme schedule for 14-19 June 2008 and for 16-18 June 2008 as .pdf-files Please see Opportunities for Exhibitors and Sponsors here. For more info and reservation of exhibition booth or sponsorship contact the FIG Office at fig@fig.net

• General Assembly in Stockholm, Sweden - 15 and 19 June 2008 - Agenda available

The agenda with appendices for the FIG General Assembly to be held in Stockholm, Sweden 15 and 19 June 2008 during the FIG Working Week 2008 is now available. An invitation and the agenda without appendices has been mailed to all members as a hard copy. The General Assembly will among other issues elect two Vice Presidents to the Council for 2009-2012 and Chairs Elect to the technical commissions. The full agenda can be downloaded from here as a pdf-file (238 pages and 7,520 kB). If you want to get a hard copy sent by mail, please contact the FIG Office, email: fig@fig.net.

• Article of the Month - May 2008

  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 May 2008 is "Pictometry: Potentials for Land Administration". It is written by Dr. Mathias Lemmens, Christiaan Lemmen and Martin Wubbe, The Netherlands. This paper was originally prepared for and presented at the 6th FIG Regional Conference in San José, Costa Rica 12-15 November 2007.

• FIG e-Newsletter

  You can download the latest April 2008 e-Newsletter from here. 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 Task Force on Institutional and Organisational Development Questionnaire

The Task Force on Institutional and Organisational Development, set up at the 2007 FIG General Assembly, has been progressing its work. A key element to allow further progress is for the Task Force to understand areas where particular support and assistance is required, and whether this is the same throughout the world or varies by region. To allow it to gather information in a structured manner, the Task Force has created an on-line survey which will take about 20 minutes to complete. As many surveyors, and related professionals, as possible are encouraged to complete the questionnaire. It can be found at www.questionpro.com/akira/takesurvey?id=878684.
Questionnaires completed by 31 May 2008 will be particularly helpful, as this will allow the Task Force to advance its work at the Working Week in Stockholm in June. Read more about the Task Force at its web site: http://www.fig.net/tf/organisation/

• International Seminar on State and Public Land Management in Verona, Italy, 9-10 September 2008

Seminar on State and Public Land Management will be organised in Verona, Italy, September 9-10, 2008, just before the FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting. The seminar is organised by FIG Commission 7 and the Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG), in co-operation with FIG Commission 9 and FAO Land Tenure and Management Unit. The major goal of the seminar is 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 will 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. Invitation as a .pdf-file. Registration closes 7 July 2008.

• FIG President Stig Enemark attends Map Middle East 2008 Conference - Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 8-10 April 2008

• FIG President Stig Enemark attends International Seminar on Land Management - Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 5-6 April 2008

• FIG President Stig Enemark attends International Congress on Geomatics and Surveying Engineering, IX National Congress of Surveying Engineers TOP-Cart 2008, and FIG Commission 3 Workshop - Valencia, Spain, 18–21 February 2008

• Vice President Matt Higgins attends Munich Satellite Navigation Summit - Munich, Germany, 19-21 February 2008

• FIG Commission 3 Workshop on “Spatial Information Management Toward Environmental Management of Mega Cities” - Valencia, Spain, 18-21 February 2008

• 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 shall 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.

• FIG Annual Review June 2006 - December 2007

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 (2.60 MB)

• FIG Working Week 2009 in Eilat, Israel - 3-8 May 2009

• Job opportunities (latest updated 4 May 2008)

• Personalia and visits (last updated 3 May 2008)

• ESRI GIS Software available to FIG members at a discount - Effort contributes 10% of revenue  from software sales to the FIG Foundation - read more

• 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.

• Other news from the last months

• World around FIG - Short notices

• Latest FIG Publications and Newsletters

  • The FIG Profile and the benefits of being a member 2007 - 2010. FIG leaflet in .pdf-format. Printed copies to be available in Stockholm in June 2008. 6 May 2008
  • FIG Publication no. 42 - Informal Settlements: The Road towards More Sustainable Places. FIG Report, 2008 - printed copies will be available in June 2008 29 April 2008
  • FIG Publication no. 40 - FIG Statutes, Internal Rules and Guidelines.  Draft version - Final version will be available in June 2008 after the General Assembly 8 April 2008
  • FIG Publication no. 39 - FIG Work Plan 2007-2010. Draft - printed copies will be available in June 2008 29 April 2008
  • Working Group 1.2 Young Surveyors Newsletter Winter 2008, Issue No. 2
  • FIG Annual Review June 2006 - December 2007
  • A letter from Commission Chair, Prof. Kauko Viitanen - FIG Commission 9 Activities 2007 and 2008
  • Commission 2 Newsletter, January 2008
  • Commission 7 Newsletter, December 2007
  • Commission 5 Newsletter, December 2007
  • Commission 4 Newsletter, September 2007

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