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FIG President Stig Enemark and CFIA/CIT President Juan
Manuel Castro Alfaro at the Opening Ceremony |
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FIG President Prof. Stig Enemark together with
Executive Director of CFIA Ing. Olman Vargas Zeledon
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The 6th FIG Regional Conference in Costa Rica FIG Regional
Conference held in Latin America and the Conference was a great
success
The 6th FIG Regional Conference was organized by the International
Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and the Colegio Federado de
Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA)/ Colegio de
Ingenieros Topógrafos de Costa Rica (CIT) which is the FIG
member association in Costa Rica. As has been the case with the
previous FIG regional conferences the conference in San José was
organized in co-operation with other international and regional
organizations like the United Nations and its agencies as well as
with international and regional spatial information societies.
The expected attendance to the conference was mainly
Latin American but the conference attracted delegates from
Australia, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. 65% of the
delegates came from the Central America and the Caribbean. To help
regional and local participation the conference was held in English
and Spanish.
This was the first time that the FIG Regional
Conference was held in Latin America. Costa Rica offers best
possible venue for such an important event. The theme of this
regional event was selected so that it focused on the hot topics in
the region which are capacity building, land administration and
environmental issues, especially the use and future of coastal
regions. Based on the outcome of the conference “Coastal Areas and Land
Administration – Building the Capacity” FIG will also prepare an
FIG publication “Methodologies for Pro-Poor Coastal Zone
Management”
The Technical Programme held a very high professional
standard and the overall impression of the Regional Conference was
very positive both from the organizers point of view and from the
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Ms.
Winnie Shiu, Congress Director FIG 2007 opens the Opening
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Strategic Integration of Surveying Services - First
Working Week for the new FIG Council a big success
The FIG Working Week 2007 and XXX General Assembly
was organised in Hong Kong SAR, China 13-17 May 2007. The conference
was attended by more than 500 delegates from 64 countries. The
Working Week was organised by the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors
HKIS together with FIG.
The technical and scientific programme of the conference consisted 60
technical sessions and almost 300 papers. The proceedings are available
here
At the plenary session after the opening ceremony the keynote addresses
were given by Dr. Leung Ying, GBS, JP, Convenor of the Non-official
Members of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong SAR. The second keynote
speaker was President Enemark, whose presentation was about "The Role of
FIG in Responding the Millennium Goals and the Global Agenda".
The other two plenary sessions focussed on Governing Mega Cities -
policies and technical aspects with Prof. Holger Magel, Mr. Albert
Leung and Mr. Tony Tse as the keynote speakers. The final plenary
session was about Responding to the Global agenda with Keith Bell
from the World Bank, Prof. Theo Kötter from Uni Bonn and Dr. Xiao
Ping as the keynote speakers.
Read full report of the
Working Week. |
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FIG President
Stig Enemark making his Opening Address. |
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Mr.
Raymond Chan, President of the Hong Kong Institute of
Surveyors HKIS, the host organisation of the Working Week, making his
opening address. |
Links to documents and reports of the FIG Working Week and
XXX General Assembly in Hong Kong SAR, China
- Keynote presentations:
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Opening Address by President
Stig Enemark
- "The Role of FIG in Responding to the Millennium
Development Goals and the Global Agenda".
Keynote Address by President Enemark
- "Global Expertise for Globalized Markets". Keynote Address
by C. Y. Leung, Convenor, Executive Council of HKSAR
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Closing Address
by President Enemark (handouts of the
powerpoint presentation)
- Conference Proceedings
- Meeting programme
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FIG General Assembly 2007, Hong Kong SAR, China 13 and 17 May 2007 -
Minutes
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