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More the 50 experts from more then 20 countries
were invited to join the meeting held in the UN Conference Centre in
Bangkok. 22 papers on the subject were presented and discussed. The
meeting was organised by the FIG Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land
Management, The World Bank, UN-Habitat and the UN Economic and
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The FIG Annual Review
2003-2005 is available as a .pdf-file from here. Hard copies will be
mailed to all members by the end of June 2005. You can receive your personal copy
by contacting the FIG office,
email: FIG@fig.net
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Federation des Geometres Francophones has been established in Rabat,
Morocco 24 November 2005
The Presidents of both the French Ordre des Geometres Experts and the
Moroccan Ordre des Ingenieurs Geometres Topographes, on behalf of the
follow up committee consisting of Algeria, Cameroon, Czech Republic,
France and Morocco, invited representatives from about thirty
countries to attend the General Assembly which will create the
Federation des Geometres Francophones (Federation of French-speaking
surveyors). This meeting took take place in Rabat / Morocco on the 24th
of November. The countries invited are either affiliated or associated
to the International Organization of Francophony. For further
information, please contact Mr. Rafic Khouri:
r.khouri@geometre-expert.fr
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FIG Commission 7 and the University of Wisconsin organised together a
Symposium on Innovative Technologies for Land Administration at the
University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison WI, USA,
24 - 25 June 2005. This symposium was combined to the annual meeting of
FIG Commission 7.
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The FIG Council established in January 2005 a new Task Force on FIG
Governance Structure. The terms of reference of this Task Force were
endorsed by the General Assembly in Cairo where the Task Force also had
its first meeting. The Task force is chaired by Vice President Ken
Allred. This Task Force as also its own
web site.
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On occasion of the 60th anniversary celebrations of
the Polish Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGIK) on 23 June
at the Royal Castle in Warsaw FIG President Prof. Holger Magel
visited the headquarters of the FIG member association in Poland. A
special highlight was a meeting with representatives of Warsaw
geodetic students association GEOIDA, who invited the President to
the International Geodetic Students Meeting (IGSM) in Krakow next
year.
Surveyor General of Poland Jerzy Albin
gets as a
gift the copy of FIG annual Review 2003-2005 |
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FIG Working Week and 8th International Conference of the
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-8) in Cairo, Egypt, 16-21
April 2005 - visit the web site www.fig.net/cairo
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FIG Working Week 2005 and the 8th International Conference of
GSDI was held in Cairo from 16 to 21 April 2005. The Organizing
Committee consisted of the Egyptian Committee for Surveying and
Mapping (ECSM), and the Egyptian Survey Authority (ESA), who
together with FIG and GSDI were in charge of the
arrangements of this successful and biggest ever FIG Working Week. The conference was attended by
more than 900 participants from more than 80 countries.
In the conference programme there were more than 400 papers and
poster presentations in more than 50 technical sessions and 7
pre-conference workshops. In addition to opening and closing
ceremonies there were three high profile plenary sessions.
Updated proceedings are available at: www.fig.net/pub/cairo
, the updates include handouts out those ppt-files that were
submitted in time.
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Minutes of the FIG General
Assembly in Cairo April 17 and 21, 2005
The FIG General Assembly was held in Cairo, Egypt 17
and 21 April 2005. At the General Assembly following decisions were
made:
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- The FIG Congress 2010 will be held in Sydney, Australia
- Andrew Leyzack from Canada was appointed as Chair Elect to
Commission 4 2005-2006 and as chair 2006-2010 and Simon Adcock from
Australia was appointed as Chair Elect to Commission 8 for the same
term of office.
- New member associations were adopted from Botswana, Brunei
Darussalam, Kosovo UNMIK, Mexico and United Arab Emirates. TOPCON
Corp. has joined as a corporate member.
- Jerome Ives from USA was appointed as an honorary member.
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The Board of Directors of the FIG
Foundation decided on the grants for 2005 at its meeting in Cairo. Seven
applicants out of 14 got a grant this year. Grants were given to following
succesful applicants: Parama Anandan (India), Daniel Paez
(Australia), Ganesh Prasad (Nepal), Karin Viergever (United
Kingdom), Mia Flores-Borquez (United Kingdom), Emmanuel Tembo
(Botswana) and Hasanuddin Zainal Abidin (Indonesia). Next grants will be offered in 2006.
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Request of support to surveyors from Sri Lanka after the tsunami
disaster
The Surveyors' Institute of Sri Lanka has asked support from
international surveyors' society to survey professionals in Sri Lanka.
Several members of the association lost all their belongings and even
their survey equipment got washed away. The institution is asking
support for about ten surveyors at least for them to commence their
professional practice. Please contact the institution by email at
surveyors@eureka.lk to find how
best to help. Letter from the institution as a .pdf-file. Read the
latest news
from the President of the Surveyors' Institute.
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The FIG Council met at the Technical University in Munich,
January 28-29, 2005. This was the first time when the new Council
members Ken Allred and Stig Enemark attended the
Council as well as Matt Higgins as the ACCO representative.
The decisions included proposals to the General Assembly on
membership, finances and the venue of FIG 2010. The Council also
endorsed the Aguascalientes Statement and decided to establish a
Task Force to study the future FIG Commission structure. |
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Workshop on Standardization on the Cadastral Domain
was organised by COST Action G9 and FIG Commission 7 in Bamberg,
Germany 9-10 December 2004.
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President Holger Magel visited the two FIG
member associations in UK December 2-3, 2004. He gave an evening
lecture at the RICS December 2, and had a meeting with the ICES Board
members as well as with the RICS representatives on December 3. He
also met with the new President of ISPRS, Prof. Ian Dowman.
President Magel together with ICES Board members, President
Robert
Fleming in the middle with Prof. Magel. |
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