President Stig Enemark attends the Norwegian Annual Conference 2009

Son, Akershus, Norway, 24-25 September 2009

FIG President Stig Enemark attended the Annual Conference “Areal og Ejendom” (Land and Property 2009) in Son in Akershus, Norway 24-25 September 2009. This conference was at the same time the General Assembly of NJKF (profession group in TEKNA), which is the FIG member in Norway (together with GeoForum Norway they form the FIG Norway).

About 100 participants attended the conference with a professional program addressing the most topical issues for the Norwegian surveyors (Jordskiftekandidater). Main issues were land information systems; coastal zone management; and power line developments; President Enemark was invited to make a keynote presentation on “Global Trends towards a Spatially Enabled Society”. Another invited keynote was presented by Mr. Tryggvi Mår Ingvarsson, Head of Geoinformation Department, The Land Registry of Iceland (FIG affiliate member), focusing on “Property Registration and the Financial Crisis”.

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• President Stig Enemark's presentation: Global Trends towards a Spatially Enabled Society
• Conference proceedings

Leiv Bjarte Mjoes, President of NJKF (Norwegian Association of Surveyors) and Stig Enemark, President of FIG.

Tryggvi Már Ingvarsson, Head of GeoInformation Department, The Land Registry of Iceland (FIG affiliate member).

12 October 2009