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Most of the Participants at the 2012 FIG Commission 7 Annual
Meeting |
FIG President CheeHai TEO joined FIG
Commission 7 Delegates at its 2012 Annual Meeting in San
Luis, Argentina. The annual event included a One-day
International Symposium with the theme “Land Governance in
South America and International Perspectives”.
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Participants at the Regional Conference
Tango in Uruguay... |
The 8th FIG Regional Conference
titled "Surveying towards Sustainable Development"
was held in Montevideo, Uruguay 26-29 November 2012
with more than 250 participants from all over Latin
America and all other continents, altogether 33
countries. The successful Regional Conference in
Uruguay proved that Latin America is a very
interesting area both for the Surveying society and
for hosting a conference. The local host of the
Regional Conference was
Asociación de Agrimensores del Uruguay (AAU)
who organised the conference in cooperation with
FIG. The conference was co-sponsored by
UN-HABITAT,
OAS, and the World Bank.
The main focus both in the plenary sessions and
the technical sessions were on the Latin American
region and during the conference there were many
professional discussion within the different
areas of surveying between participants from the
region and from all over the world.
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Very special greeting for President CheeHai TEO |
FIG President made another working visit to
Abuja, Nigeria between 20 and 21 November 2012 as part of
the lead-up to the 2013 FIG Working Week. During the visit,
apart from continuing the discussion with the Nigerian
Institution of Surveyors on their preparation, President
CheeHai TEO delivered the 30th Annual Olumide
Memorial Lecture on 20th November 2012.
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HKIS President, Ms Serena LAU |
The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors held
their annual dinner on the evening of 6 November 2012 at the
Grand Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. Ms Serena
LAU, HKIS President welcomed members and guests to what
was a grand evening.
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Most of the Participants at the 2012 FIG Commission 7 Annual
Meeting |
FIG Commission 7 held its 2012 Annual
Meeting in San Luis, Argentina. The annual event included a
One-day International Symposium with the theme “Land
Governance in South America and International Perspectives”.
FIG President
CheeHai TEO joined FIG commission 7 delegates.
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Acting Surveyor General of Brunei Darussalam, Awang Haji
Ali Bakar bin Kassim |
The Survey Department, Ministry of
Development Negara Brunei Darussalam, celebrated its 60th
Anniversary with a one-day seminar. The theme of the Diamond
Jubilee Celebratory Seminar was “Geospatial for Sustainable
Development”. FIG President CheeHai TEO was invited
and delivered the keynote at the opening segment of the
Seminar.
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On 15 November 2012 the Economist awarded
successful innovators. Jack Dangermond, president of
the Environmental Systems Research Institute, ESRI received
the computing and telecommunications award, together with
John Hanke, vice-president of product management at
Google.
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Geo-matching.com is an initiative from FIG
corporate member Geomares Publishing. Geo-matching is the
independent product comparison website for professional
hard- and software for geomatics and adjacent fields. The
website leads you through the maze of specifications and
gives the opportunity to compare products of different
producers, read up on reviews given by users, in order to
reach a balanced judgment before buying.
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On1 November 2012 the 'Land
Administration Domain Model (LADM)' was approved as an
official International ISO Standard . This is a
milestone in the development of land administration
systems.The proposal for this standard was submitted by
FIG to ISO almost five years ago.
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FIG Office visits Nigerian Institution of Surveyors |
FIG Working Week 2013 is not far away
and the very active members of Nigerian Institution of
Surveyors are working intensely to organise an exciting
and successful Working Week. FIG Office visited Abuja to
coordinate the preparations and also got a chance to
meet the Surveyor General of the Federation and SURCON.
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President Teo visits The Danish National Survey and
Cadaster |
The Danish National Survey and
Cadaster, KMS has initiated an agreement that improves
and links public registers of basic data and makes data
available to the private sector. Once the public
authorities have tidied up, merged all data and stopped
parallel registration, annual savings in administration
is estimated to amount to DKK 260 mio (35 Mio EUR) in
2020. Basic data includes private addresses, companies'
business registration numbers, or the cadastral numbers
of real properties.
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The Conference was supported by FIG,
and held in the Hotel International in Zagreb. A wide
range of topics and distinguished keynote speakers
guaranteed interesting presentations. One of the
presenters was Dr. Chryssy Alex. Potsiou,
FIG Vice-president.
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Eva-Maria Unger, FIG Young Surveyors being interviewed
after Opening Ceremony (image courtesy of Lilia
D'Alesio) |
Fifty young surveyors from 17 countries
participated in this year’s training course. Areas of
study included topographical and geometric surveys,
production of large-scale orthoimages, GNSS surveys,
geodetic reference systems, RTK, photogrammetric and
LIDAR surveys, geo-referencing of cadastral maps, remote
sensing and structural monitoring and deformation
surveys.
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Dr. Joan Clos, Executive Director of UN-Habitat |
The theme for the Forum was “the urban
future”. In his opening speech, UN-Habitat Executive
Director Dr. Joan Clos said the Forum provided
UN-HABITAT with the perfect chance to listen to what the
stakeholders had to say and that it is the
responsibility of his agency to relay to governments
what the participants wanted done. FIG Young Surveyors
Network through Kate Fairlie and Eva-Maria Unger
actively participated in the Forum.
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The second session of the UNCE-GGIM was convened at the
United Nations Headquarters in New York |
UNCE-GGIM was established to be the
official United Nations consultative mechanism on place,
locality and geography. UNCE-GGIM plays a leading role
in setting the agenda for the development of global
geospatial information, while promoting its use to meet
key global challenges. In his opening remarks, United
Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social
Affairs, Mr. HongBo WU said that understanding and
analysing geospatial information has become a key driver
of competition and underpins new waves of productivity
growth, innovation and services.
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Some of the participants at the session hosted by the
Moscow University of Geodesy and Cartography. |
The International Federation of
Surveyors has six members from within the Russian
Federation, in all four membership categories. The
Federal Agency for Geodesy and Cartography (ROSREESTR)
and the Non-Commercial Partnership of Cadastral
Engineers are Member Associations, Moscow University of
Geodesy and Cartography and the State University of Land
Use Planning are Academic Members, the Siberian State
Academy of Geodesy is an Affiliate Member and Meridian+,
a Corporate Member. Together, they invited President
CheeHai TEO to Moscow and to interact with FIG’s members
from the Russian Federation.
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Jack Dangermond, President ESRI with John
Hohol [right], President FIG Foundation. |
This year’s American Congress of Survey
and Mapping (ACSM) Annual Conference is also the ESRI
Survey Summit, organised by and co-located within ESRI’s
Annual User Conference at the San Diego Convention
Centre, California. The ESRI User Conference annually
attracts a huge number of participants and this year is
no different, approximately 15,000 participants from all
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Vice Minister Deming Xu showing Dr Paul Cheung
and other official visitors to NASG Headquaters in Beijing
the model of the China’s Geomatics Park being developed near
the Beijing Capital Airport |
The Forum provided a platform to discuss
priority issues for the regional implementation strategy of
the UN-GGIM initiative, and was organised by the National
Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation
(NASG) of China organized jointly with the Secretariat of
the United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial
Information Management. The Forum provided a better
understanding of key issues that UN-GGIM and international
organizations need to focus on; an appreciation on the
importance of consultations at global, regional and local
levels to agree and pursue strategies towards managing all
information spatially.
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Young surveyors conference.
Kate Fairlie making the welcome address. |
More than 120 Young Surveyors from 40 countries joined the
first FIG Young Surveyors Conference held in Rome, Italy,
4-5 May 2012. The network manifests across social media,
which was prominent during this event.
The Young Surveyors Conference created a platform for young
surveying professionals to explore common issues and
identify future opportunities. The ambition was to increase
young surveyor participation in the FIG Commissions, to
provide with a voice for young surveyors in the future of
the profession and FIG, and to offer a more informal
platform for presenting than at the traditional FIG
conferences.
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The participants at the seminar |
The IAG, (International Association of Geodesy), FIG
Commission 5 and ICG (International Committee on GNSS) held
a technical seminar prior to the Working Week, on 4-5 May
2012 with 42 active participants. UNOOSA (United Nations
Office for Outer Space Affairs) generously sponsored 4
delegates to attend this seminar. The two days included
presentations and discussions.
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Mr Justin Lin, Senior Vice President and Chief
Economist, World Bank and Prof. Paul Collier,
Professor of Economics, Oxford University at the Opening
Session |
Within this year’s Conference was the joint
World Bank – FIG Segment, Spatial Enabling Governments and
Societies for Sustainable Land Administration and
Management, renamed as SEGS (Spatially Enabled Government
and Societies). The Workshop addressed four issues: Triple A
land administration: from concept to implementation;
Approaches to lower-cost land administration through spatial
enablement; Potential and challenges of spatial enablement
of land administration; and Spatial enablement to
sustainably support the continuum of land rights.
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President
Teo visits Asociación de Agrimensores del Uruguay
(A.A.U.) |
The 8th FIG Regional Conference is decided
to be held on 26-29 November 2012 at Radisson Montevideo in
Uruguay. FIG is happy to announce a Regional conference in
Central America and are looking forward to many participants
from the Central American region as well as international
participants. President CheeHai Teo and Markku
Villikka from FIG Office visited Asociación de
Agrimensores del Uruguay (AAU) November 2011 to start the
planning of the conference. The Regional Conference is
organised jointly by AAU and FIG.
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FIG General Assembly 2012 - Rome, Italy, 6 and 10
May 2012 –
Agenda
Rome Cavalieri in Rome waiting for FIG General Assembly. |
The FIG General Assembly will be held 6 and 10 May in
Rome in conjunction to the FIG Working Week 2012. The main
issues on the agenda will be election of two Vice Presidents
(2013-2016) and election of Commission Chairs Elect
(2013-2014). The General Assembly will also decide on the
hosts of Working Week 2015 and Working Week 2016. The agenda
is now available and the FIG Office has sent an invitation
and hard copy of the agenda without appendices to all
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The first FIG Young Surveyors Conference
will be held in conjunction with the FIG Working Week in
Rome, Italy. The aim of the conference is to create a
platform for young surveying professionals to network, to
develop a vision for the future of the Young Surveyors
Conference and to provide FIG Commissions with ideas on how
best to integrate young professionals in the work of FIG.
These visions will be presented in a special session of the
Working Week. FIG and CNGeGL encourage young professionals
to attend. The participation in FIG Young Surveyors
Conference also allows easy attendance to the FIG Working
week at student fee.
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NIS President
Yakubu Maikano and President Teo
together with the Deputy Speaker of the House of
Representatives Emeka Ihedioha. |
FIG President CheeHai Teo and FIG
Director Markku Villikka visited Nigeria to prepare
and discuss with the local organisers the arrangements for
the FIG Working Week 2013 that will be held in Abuja 6-10
May 2013. During their visit they met with the three
Nigerian member associations, representatives from different
public institutions and several local surveyors. The local
interest and support to the first FIG Working Week to be
held in Sub Saharan Africa is huge. It is expected that
2,000-3,000 participants will attend this main FIG
conference next year.
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The
FIG Annual Review 2011 is now available (32 pages,
3.66 MB) as a .pdf-file. Hard copies will be mailed to
all members together with the minutes from the General
Assembly in Rome. To receive your personal copy, please
contact the FIG office, email:
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Daniel Roberge and Vice President of OGEC Mr.
Joseph Ngassa K. on the Cameroun national radio
network. |
The Ordre des géomètres experts du
Cameroun (OGEC) organised an international event to
promote the profession of land surveyors in this Central
African country. Themes like cadastre and land property
in Cameroun and in foreign countries, standards, young
surveyors, were presented and discussed. Our colleagues
from Cameroun had also the opportunity to present
national projects that will improve land infrastructures
in their country: the national geodetic network and a
pilot cadastre project.
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RICS Global President SeeLian Ong, President
CheeHai Teo and RICS Chief Executive Sean Tomkins |
The Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors, RICS a member association of FIG made history
by having its International Governing Council Meeting in
Beijing, China PR, the first meeting ever outside
Europe. Together with this historic event, an
international conference was convened. The conference
had participants deliberating and discussing the
profession’s fitness for the future, the theme of the
two-day event. The conference had a number of sessions
including lively panel discussions covering economy,
property investment, investment infrastructure, property
market outlooks, affordable housing, valuation standards
as well as issues related to urbanization and building
cities of the future, impact of technologies and
innovation and that of land tenure and the vibrant land
market.
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Plenary session at the Symposium |
The premise for the symposium is that
spatial information and data add valuable dimensions to
governance decision making processes and supports
societies’ involvement in the governance process in the
pursuit of economic, social, political and environmental
objectives. It was clear that spatial enablement of
government and societies are desirable, and that these
desires are not only contemporary but have been
trumpeted by geomatics professionals as needs in the
governance decision making process, for decades
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Gerardus Mercator, born at Rupelmonde
(present day Belgium) on 5th March 1512 was a remarkable
man, a man in his times and provided solutions to his
times. He was a surveyor, a cartographer, an engraver,
an instrument maker who is best remembered by the
Profession for the map projection that bears his name
till this day, the Mercator Projection. It is fitting
that the Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE)
has chosen to celebrate the First “Day of the European
Surveyor and Geoinformation” on the 500th anniversary of
Mercator’s birth, on 5th March 2012 in Brussels,
Belgium.
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Securing Land Rights for All - Strengthening
Partnerships - Global Land Tool Network Partners Meeting, 15-16 November
2011, UNON, Nairobi, Kenya
The fourth GLTN Partners Meeting as convened by
UN-HABITAT in Nairobi, Kenya on 15 & 16 November 2011 and was
followed by a further two days of what is known as “Learning
Exchange”. The meeting had a theme “Strengthening Partnerships:
Sustaining a Paradigm Shift towards designing, developing and
implementing pro-poor land tools and approaches”.
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The Twin Tower in Kuala Lumpur was the backdrop for the FIG
Council meeting. |
The FIG Council had its first face-to-face
meeting this year in Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia 12-13 February
2012. The meeting was organised in conjunction to the
UNRCC-PCGIAP International Symposium on Spatially Enabled
Government and Society and a one day expert group meeting.
The Council confirmed nominations for elections and
candidates for Working Week 2015 and 2016 for decision of
the General Assembly in Rome in May.
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The FIG Foundation will be providing research
grants of up to 20,000 euros spread over two years. Applicants
should be based in a surveying/geomatics academic or research
programme in a country listed by the World Bank as a low-income,
lower-middle or upper-middle income economy, have an established
record of published research - at least two articles in good quality
internationally recognised peer reviewed journals serves as a useful
guideline, and have experience in managing postgraduate students.
Guidelines
for FIG Foundation Academic Research Grants
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Commission 4 Working Group 4 Workshop in Nigeria
FIG Commission 4 (Hydrography) Working Group 4.5
(Hydrography in Africa) organised workshop on Hydrography Awareness in
Africa, Kogi State, Nigeria, 24-26 October 2011.
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FIG General Assembly 2012 - Call for nominations for
Vice Presidents and Commission Chairs Elect - deadline for nominations
has passed 2 January 2012
The FIG General Assembly will elect two new Vice
Presidents at its meeting in Rome, Italy 6-10 May 2012 for term of
office 2013-2016. The General Assembly will also elect a Chair Elect
to each of the 10 Commissions for term of office 2013-2014. The
appointed Chair Elect will normally be elected as the Chair of the
Commission at the FIG Congress 2014 for the period 2015-2018.
Closing date for nominations has passed 2 January 2012.
German Initiative on recruitment of Students
in Geodesy and Surveying
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Many countries experience that young people have a
lack of knowledge in the field of Surveying and
Geodesy and face a decrease in the number of
student. A German initiative by DVW has resulted in
a web site which is now also published in English.
The web site gives a broad overview about Geodesy
and its diverse disciplines. Furthermore it provides
rich information regarding the study courses
(focused on Germany). Have a look at the web site
and be inspired how you could also promote the
profession in your country.
August 2012
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New general director at the National Agency for Cadastre and
Land Registration Romania (ANCPI)
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Mr. Marius Arthur URSU has been apppinted new
general director at the National Agency for Cadastre
and Land Registration (ANCPI).
June 2012
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The Voluntary Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure were
endorsed by the 38th (Special) Session of the Committee on World
Food Security (CFS).
The Committee:
- Expressed its gratitude
to the Chair of the OEWG, its Members and Participants, as
well as the Secretariat, for the successful conclusions of
the negotiations, which had been conducted in a transparent
and participatory way and in a spirit of understanding;
- Endorsed the Voluntary
Guidelines;
- Noted that, according to
their title, the Guidelines are voluntary and are not
legally binding.
- Encouraged all
stakeholders to promote, make use of and support the
implementation of the Guidelines when formulating
strategies, policies and programmes on food security,
nutrition, agriculture and the tenure of land, fisheries and
forests;
- Pursuant to CFS Reform
document (CFS:2009/2 Rev.2), paragraph 21, and CFS Rules of
Procedure (CFS:2011/9 Rev.1), rule X(1), decided to transmit
the Guidelines to the governing bodies of FAO, WFP and IFAD;
- Pursuant to CFS Reform
document (CFS:2009/2 Rev.2), paragraph 21, and CFS Rules of
Procedure (CFS:2011/9 Rev.1), rule X(4), decided to request
the United Nations General Assembly, through the Economic
and Social Council, to further endorse the VGGT and ensure
their wide dissemination to all relevant UN Bodies and
Agencies;
- Requested FAO to ensure
that the Guidelines are included as a priority in the new
Strategic Framework that FAO is developing and in relevant
work programmes.
August 2012
FIG Congratulates The Bureau of Land Management,
USA with their 200 year anniversary
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The
Bureau of Land Management, USA, who is Affiliate
member of FIG commemorated 200 years of the General
Land Office, its predecessor, on 25th April 2012.
The General Land Office was first established on
April 25, 1812. The commemoration was held at BLM's
Eastern States Office outside Washington DC. FIG was
represented by Chair of FIG Foundation
John Hohol and FIG President CheeHai Teo
together with BLM's Chief Cadastral Surveyor,
Don Buhler.
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Real Estate Valuation Training Nepal
Seven weeks 'Real Estate Valuation Training' programme was
conducted by Nepal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (NICS),
who is a FIG Member Association, in collaboration with
Purwanchal University Geomatic Institute of Technology from 14
March to 30 April 2012.
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