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Dr. Daniel Steudler, Chair of the Task Force |
Terms of Reference
Project Idea
The General Assembly established in May 2009 in Eilat a short
term Task Force (TF) (2009-2010) with the aim to explore the issue of Spatially
Enabled Societies (SES) from a cadastral and surveyors point of view. The
purpose is to identify the role of the profession, how it can provide for a
spatially enabled society and to make recommendations. The TF should attempt to
take different regional perceptions on board and to reflect them. The context
would have to take different economic and social situations into account,
developed as well as developing countries.
The expected result of this task force is to develop a
comprehensive FIG position paper on SES (about 20 pages), and 4-5 regional
reflections of 2-4 pages each. This will be launched as a FIG publication at the
Handover Ceremony in November 2010.
Scope
The 13th PCGIAP meeting in 2007 concluded with the statement
that A spatially enabled government is one that has ready access to the
spatial or geographic or location based information and associated technologies
that it requires and is applying these productively to government decision
making, including developing policy and supporting its own business processes.
In analogy, societies can be considered as spatially enabled where location
and spatial information are regarded as common goods made available to citizens
and businesses to encourage creativity and product development and so
informed can participate in the decision-making and governance process.
The Bathurst Declaration established the dependency between
sustainable development and land administration and made the clear statement
that "sustainable development needs sound land administration". Often the term "Land
Management" is being used in this context as illustrated in the following figure.
The Land Management Paradigm
EuroGeographics, in their vision document Cadastre and
Land Registration in Europe in 2012, identify the trends and developments
in two complementing directions. Accordingly, the field of C&LR is to provide
security of ownership through an established and reliable cadastral system
and based on the same information to provide geodata and services to the market.
The contribution and role of the cadastre in this structure is to collect,
maintain and update authentic and official data in reliable registers. This
concerns mainly private- and public-law rights and restrictions, as well as
official and basic geodata serving multiple public purposes, such as
geo-referenced addresses. In doing so, the cadastre can contribute to
sustainable development through multiple services based on reliable information.
It is important for the surveying profession and for the
cadastral institutions to recognize their roles in this context. Only with this
awareness, the profession can develop itself, foresee opportunities and prepare
for the future.
Proposed Time Schedule
| March 2009 |
Informal discussion of next steps to be taken and to agree on
potential TF members (at the FIG/WB conference in Washington DC) |
| May 2009 |
Meeting of TF, preparation of position paper and how to get regional
input (at FIG Working Week in Eilat, Israel) |
| June-August 2009 |
Regional input (through regional contributors) |
| July-September 2009 |
Feedback of regional contributors to be circulated among TF members |
| October 2009 |
Position paper finalized by TF members |
| December 2009 |
Final text by regional contributors |
| January 2010 |
Editing and finalizing of extended paper |
| November 2010 |
Launching of publication at the FIG Handover Ceremony in Copenhagen |
Organisation
Chair:
Task Force members:
Regional Contributors:
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Africa: Dozie Ezigbalike (UN-ECA, Ethiopia)
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North America: Dave Coleman (UNB, Canada)
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Latin America: Santiago Borrero (IPGH, Colombia)
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Asia: Ahmad Fauzi Nordin (Malaysia)
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Australia/Pacific: Ian Williamson (Australia)
Chair
Dr. Daniel Steudler
Swiss Federal Directorate for Cadastral
Surveying
Seftigenstrasse 264
CH-3084 Wabern
SWITZERLAND
Tel. +41-31-963 2482
Fax +41-31-963 2297
Email: Daniel.Steudler@swisstopo.ch
Papers related to the task force
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