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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.
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 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
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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/ |
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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. |
The Honourable Minister of Development, Negara Brunei Darussalam making his officiating address at the SeminarThe 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...
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...
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...
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....
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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.
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