National CorrespondentsEach Academic member has the right to nominate a correspondent to each of the ten technical commissions. The contact information of commission delegates is updated by the FIG office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the FIG Office. Guideline to FIG members and their commission delegatesThe responsibilities and benefits of a national delegate are described in the Internal Rules. The purpose of these guidelines is to help ensure that the full benefit of FIG membership is passed down to all the individual members of associations or other organisations that are members of the Federation. To ensure that individual members are kept fully informed of and have an opportunity to provide input to the work of FIG to the work of FIG and its commissions, FIG recommends that: FIG members should support, or encourage others to support, the attendance of national commission delegates at FIG congresses and annual FIG working weeks (including annual commission delegate meetings and technical symposia), regional conferences and other symposia organised by the commissions FIG members and national commission delegates should consider establishing networks within their countries to communicate information and obtain feedback national commission delegates should be actively involved in commission activities, including responding to questionnaires and correspondence and identifying topics and authors of papers for commission symposia and FIG events FIG members should seek and encourage funding support to enable national commission delegates to attend FIG activities, including commission meetings national commission delegates should write at least one annual report for publication in a local newsletter or technical journal for dissemination to individual members of their association or organisation. FIG Commissions
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