FIG President Stig Enemark visits Havana, Cuba
at V International Congress GEOMATICA 2007
Havana, Cuba, 12-17 February 2007
 
 
 
President Stig Enemark visited Havana, Cuba, 12-17 February 2007
as invited keynote speaker at the International Congress GEOMATICA 2007. The
congress was organized as as part of the XII Convention on INFORMATICA 2007
that included a range of sub congresses and symposia with more than 1000
participants. The convention was headed by Commander of the Revolution
Ramiro Valdés Menendéz, Minister of Information Sciences and
Communications.
The Congress GEOMATICA 2007 was organized by Dr. Tatiana Delgado
who is well known throughout the international world of geospatial sciences.
The congress included about 20 session with about 80 presentations, with a
special focus on geospatial data infrastructures. President Enemark gave a
welcome address at the opening session and a key note presentation on “Land
Management in Support of the Global Agenda” that included an overview of the
FIG organization current policies in a global perspective.
The keynote sessions also included presentations from Jarmo Ratia,
President of GSDI; Alexandro Maratos, Secretary General of IHO;
John Trinder, Vicepresident of ISPRS, Harold Moellering, ICA,
Keith Murray, Ordinance Survey, UK; Abbas Rajabifjard, Universiy
of Melbourne, Joep Crompvoets, University of Vagenen, and Tatiana
Delgado, Cuba.
President Enemark also chaired a session on Cadastral Systems. This issue
is very actual in Cuba that is currently building a cadastral database for
both the rural and urban areas. The cadastre will mainly serve
administrative purposes as there is no private ownership to land in Cuba.
However, this is good example of the need for cadastral identification at
the parcel level even if this is not used as a basis for the legal security
of land rights. Instead the cadastre serves the purposes administering the
governmental allocation of rights of land use as well as registering the
actual use of land and assessing the value of this use. It was suggested
that Cuba offers a presentation of this system preferable to be included in
the FIG cadastral template (see:
www.cadastraltemplate.org)
More information can be found at the Conference website
http://www.informaticahabana.com/?q=en
During the conference President Enemark also had the opportunity to meet
with the national surveying organization UNAICC and discuss about relevant
future co-operations.
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