Themes and Scope

Policy Issues

The theme of the 7th FIG Regional Conference "Spatial Data Serving People: Land Governance and the Environment - Building the Capacity" is divided into three sub-themes so that pleanary session and focus on each day addresses one of these three topics:

• Land Administration
• Spatial Data Infrastructrure (SDI) and the Environment
• Capacity Building

Day 1 - Land Administration

Plenary session keynotes:

• Land administration in Vietnam
• WB projects in the SEA region
• Land acquisition in developing economies

Issues for technical sessions:

• Land law and tenure security
• Cadastral mapping and land registration procedures
• Land valuation and economics
• Land acquisition in developing economies including compensation and resettlement
• Regional Wolrd Bank and other donor projects
• Equity and gender issues

Day 2 - SDI and the Environment

Plenary session keynotes:

• SDI developments in Vietnam
• Climate change and disaster risk management
• Decentralisation and environmental management

Issues for technical sessions:

• Building integrated SDIs
• Disaster risk management
• Harmonisation and standardisation of sectoral databases
• Merging of cadastral and topographic databases
• Topographic mapping and reference systems
• Hydrographic Surveying and coastal and marine resource management
• Monitoring mineral resources exploitation for environmental protection
• Spatial planning and good governance for economic development and environmental protection

Day 3 - Capacity Building

Plenary session keynotes:

• Professional standards and ethics
• Surveying education in Vietnam and SEA region
• Promoting public private partnership

Issues for technical sessions:

• Professional standards and ethics
• Educational standards and curricula development
• Educational workshop
• Accreditation, licensing, and mutual recognition
• CPD requirements
• Capacity building at societal, institutional and individual level

As a result from the conference an FIG Publication on Land Acquisition in developing economies will be prepared and published in the FIG publication series.

The theme of the conference is “Capacity Building for Sustainable Development” which includes following policy issues and specific topics:

Specific Topics

All ten FIG technical commissions will attend the conference and papers therefore requested to all following topics: Professional Standards and Practice; Professional Education; Spatial Information Management; Hydrography; Positioning and Measurement; Engineering Surveys; Cadastre & Land Management; Spatial Planning & Development; Valuation and the Management of Real Estate; and Construction Economics and Management.

The FIG commissions have selected some key topics that are of interest for the region and international audience.