President Magel visits Ordre des Géomètres-Experts Fonciers
in Algeria
Alger, Algeria, March 2-6, 2005
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President
Holger Magel with Director General Amar Aloui at
his visit of Agence Nationale du Cadastre. |
OGEF President
Ahmed Benaissa and FIG President Holger Magel at
the reception in Algiers |
Only one week after his Rome meeting with one of the oldest FIG member
associations, the Italian CNG, President Holger Magel visited one of
the youngest FIG members, the Algerian OGEF, which joined FIG during the
Regional Conference in Marrakech in December 2003. President Magel followed
the invitation of OGEF President Ahmed Benaissa to encourage the
Algerian colleagues for consequent commitments and increased contributions
to FIG and its commissions. At his meeting with the Geometres in Oran and
Algiers President Magel congratulated the representatives of OGEF for their
decision of joining FIG. He expressed also his confidence, that being a
member of the global surveyors community Algeria - after difficult political
periods - now can participate in the global exchange of experiences and that
OGEF now also can benefit of the widespread work of FIG.
President Magel further underlined in his different speeches and in his
interviews with journalists very clearly the multiple advantages of FIG
membership for an opening Algeria with more and more opened market. Due to
current political goals Algeria, which has had and has a very strong
militarian and state institution character also in the field of surveying,
is shifting slightly to the private sector. As a result of this the OGEF is
now partly participating in cadastre work. During his visits to Agence
Nationale du Cadastre, Institut National de Cartographie et de
Télédétection and of the Centre National de l’Information
Géographique President Magel encouraged all responsible Director
Generals to take care of a fair balance between public and private sector.
He welcomed the participation of the representatives of the national
services to FIG conferences thus getting a precise overview of the “state of
arts” and of cooperation between public and private sector around the world.
As a very positive result of Magels visit of the Centre National des
Techniques Spatiales (CNTS) in Arzew near to Oran the Director of this
unique national research and education centre for different courses and
degrees in Geomatics, Geodesy, Remote Sensing and Satellite Positioning Dr.
Mohamed Benmohamed promised to apply on behalf of his centre for FIG
academic membership. In his conclusion remarks at the reception for members
of OGEF in Algiers and Constantine President Magel thanked for the
overwhelming hospitality and promised the support of FIG to OGEF in
stabilizing a strong and open minded professional organization and in
helping cooperating and networking with the international world of
surveyors. He requested OGEF President Benaissa to come with his Board to
the FIG Working Week in Cairo and possibly bringing with him some young
inspired surveyors.
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OGEF Geometres of Algiers and Constantine at their meeting with FIG
President Magel and his wife Anselma. |
Model of the Algerian satellite ALSAT at CNTS: (from left)
Ridha
Bouras, Oran representative of OGEF, Director of CNTS Mohamed
Benmohamed, FIG President Magel and Boulefrad Rahal, Member
of the Board of OGEF. |
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