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FIG at UNECE Working Party on Land Administration
4-5 April 2023, Geneve, Switzerland
FIG was well represented at the Thirteenth Session of the UNECE
Working Party on Land Administration, 4 and 5 April 2023, Palais des
Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Kirsikka Riekinnen, FIG Commission 7 Vice Chair,
made two presentations, one on ‘Cadastral mapping and strategies of land
administration authorities in Europe’ at the first meeting on 4 April,
and one in her function as Vice Chair of Commission 7 to present the
Commision 7 workplan for the current term 2023 to 2026 at the third
meeting on 5 April.
Steven Nystrom, former Chair of FIG Commission 9, presented the
‘COVID-19 Recovery Action Plan for Informal Settlements in the ECE
Region - WPLA capacity-building resources to support member States in
improvement of informal settlements’ at the first meeting on 4 April.
Daniel Steudler, Vice President of FIG, reported on the work of
EuroGeographics at the third meeting on 5 April and identified
opportunities for cooperation with WPLA.
Hartmut Müller, former Chair of FIG Commission 3, had two
presentations, one to share the results of the joint FIG/FAO/UNECE
study, on Digital transformation and land administration – Sustainable
practices from the UNECE region and beyond’, published as FIG
publication no 80, at the first meeting on 4 April; and a second on
‘Geospatial Information Systems’ to announce and promote the objectives
of the new FIG Task Force on the role of FIG in international trends and
future geospatial information ecosystem.
Recordings of the WPLA meetings are available online
FIG Task Force members Kirsikka Riekinnen, Fredrik Zetterquist,
Daniel Steudler and Hartmut Müller took the opportunity of the in-person
meeting to plan in detail the Task Force activities at the FIG Working
Week Orlando, particularly in connection with the Director General
Forum.
Hartmut Müller
April 2023
