3-14 November 2014 a short course in
New Approaches in Land Administration and Cadaster
was organized in Mozambique at the Institute for
Land Administration and Cartography (INFATEC). A
group of 20 teachers from this vocational training
institute participated in this training- of trainers
program offered by the School of Land Administration
Studies, Faculty ITC, University of Twente, the
Netherlands. The FIG office supported the course by
making available relevant FIG Publications including
the recent publication on Fit-for-Purpose Land
Administration. The publications served as excellent
teaching material as was reflected in the lively
debates in class about the fit-for-purpose concept.
It inspired the teachers of INFATEC to strengthen
their program in land administration and cadaster.
The participants and course organizers from INFATEC
and ITC – University of Twente are therefore very
grateful to FIG for supporting the course by sending
copies of the publications for all participants.
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We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd FIG Young
Surveyors European Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria. The
meeting takes place Saturday 16 May 2015 prior to the
FIG Working Week 2015.
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FIG Council 2011-14. VP Rudolf Staiger, ACCO rep
Yerach Doytsher, Incoming President Chryssy Potsiou,
VP Pengfei Cheng and President CheeHai Teo. Vice
President Bruno Razza was not present.
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The current FIG Council has concluded its very
last meeting. This essentially brought to a close
the current four-year term of this Council. In
December President Teo had an administrative
hand-over meeting with President Chryssy Potsiou.
CheeHai Teo wants to take this opportunity to thank
all within our global community to our membership,
partners and stakeholders for the support,
contributions and leadership during this period.
Over the past four years, many volunteers have
worked and contributed towards advancing the
usefulness, interest and standing of our august
Federation and Profession. CheeHai Teo concludes:
“as my four year term as FIG President ends, it has
been a tremendous professional and personal
experience and remains a privilege”.
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The International Union of Notaries (UiNL) is an
international non-governmental organization
promoting, coordinating and developing the role and
functions of notaries throughout the world. UiNL
aims to be a global network with a common ambition
to work at the service of a more just, humane and
harmonious society. The conference focised on land
tenure security at the service of sustainable
development. As his last duty in office, President
CheeHai Teo represented FIG at the
conference.
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Incoming President Chryssy Potsiou with Secretary
General Chronis Akpitidis visiting FIG Office
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In his penultimate duty as President of FIG,
CheeHai Teo welcomed Secretary General
Chronis Akpitidis from the Technical Chamber of
Greece to FIG. The Technical Chamber of Greece is a
long-standing member association within FIG and the
home association of President Chryssy Potsiou
(2015-18). TCG and FIG had fruitful interactions and
discussions included the challenges faced by the
Profession both in Greece and in Europe, and the joy
and pride of TCG and the surveying profession in
Greece in having Chryssy Potsiou as the
President of FIG.
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“our struggle for sustainability will be won or
lost in the cities”
Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, 2012
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The United Nations has recognized the importance
of urbanization. The Expert Group Meeting on
“Sustainable Urban Development in Asia and the
Pacific: Towards a New Urban Agenda” was organized
to identify priority issues that could be
deliberated at the upcoming 6th Asia Pacific Urban
Forum (May 2015) and leading into Habitat III
(October 2016).
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IPMS for Office Building represents an
international effort to create a uniform method for
measuring property and is expected to replace some
of the existing standards currently in use around
the world. Dr. Frances Plimmer, FIG
representative, comments that “... It is vital for
our credibility and the quality of the services we
offer that we are seen to be accurately and
consistently describing, offering, valuing and
managing real estate, wherever it is located and for
whatever purpose it is required".
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FIG Commission 4 cooperates with other
organisations that focus on various aspects on
hydrography and hydrographic surveying. A series of
meetings has been formed to undertake simple and
informal meetings to help coordination and exchange
of information and experience on the Capacity
Building within the area and to attract young people
to working in the nautic area.
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Mr Rob Sarib (left), Mr Jens Kruger (middle) and Dr
John Dawson (right)
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Geospatial Specialists and Surveyors from the
Pacific Island Countries (PICs) met in Suva, Fiji to
further the objective of improving coordination of
Geospatial and Surveying activities in the Pacific.
It was recognised that Geospatial and Surveying
Information when applied to real world problems can
help reduce persistent poverty and create
opportunities to support social and economic
development. It was subsequently resolved that an
interim group known as the Pacific Geospatial and
Surveying Council (PGSC) be formed so as to finalise
a Charter, and Strategy, that will adhere to the FIG
Suva Statement on Spatially Responsible Governance.
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Altogether 160 participants attended the event.
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TThe Third “Development Universities” was
organised by the FGF (Fédération des Géomètres
Francophones- Federation of the French Speaking
Surveyors) and co-sponsored by FIG and
UN-Habitat/GLTN. The theme of the Third “Development
Universities” was “The Role of the Surveyor in Urban
Space”
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The Ninth Meeting of the International Committee
on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG) was
held in Prague, Czech Republic from 9 to 14 November
2014. Michael Lilje, Chair of FIG Commission 5,
attended the meeting and thus gave his last
international contribution to FIG as Chair of
Commission 5.
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The Regional Committee was
established in 1994 and was known as the Permanent
Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the
Pacific (PCGIAP) until the 19th UNRCC-AP held in
Bangkok in 2012 where the name was amended to the
current. The aim of the Regional Committee includes
to identify regional issues relevant to geospatial
information management, take necessary actions and
contribute to global discussions so that the
economic, social and environmental benefits of
geospatial information will be maximized in Asia and
the Pacific region. FIG’s presentation included a
progress report on Cadastral Template 2.0.
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Thanks to sponsorship
received from the FIG Foundation I was able
to conduct a research trip to the
Netherlands and Germany during September and
October 2014. The purpose of the trip was to
learn as much as possible about the
cadastral systems of the two countries.
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At a validation workshop 21
participants from 15 countries, convened jointly by
GLTN and FIG, validated the CoFLAS tool. GLTN is now
preparing to bring this validated CoFLAS tool into a
new phase, piloting at country level. FIG, its
membership and corps of volunteers that were
involved in this tool development process since
2010/2011 are immensely privileged to be able to
contribute towards conceptualising and designing of
this land tool, one within the suite of 18 land
tools embedded in 5 overarching themes envisage by
GLTN to bring about improved efficiency and
effectiveness to land administration and management
towards securing land and property rights for all.
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Valuation of unregistered lands &
Properties is a collaborative activity between
Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) facilitated by
UN-Habitat, FIG and other key partners including
RICS. GLTN has embarked on a process to develop a
tool for the valuation of unregistered lands and
properties. The experts group meeting held on 13 and
14 October 2014 brought together 20 experts from 13
countries to facilitate the development of a
framework on current thinking and methodologies for
the valuation of unregistered land and properties,
based on valuation practices and practices research.
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At the opening of the Third High Level Forum on
Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM)
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“Timely and urgent to consider
Sustainable Development with Geospatial Information"
said WU Hongbo, Under-Secretary General for
Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations at the
Third High Level Forum on GGIM. WO Hongbo also
commented the global diversity of expertise at the
Forum representing Member States within the United
Nations and particularly welcomed international
partners, FIG being one, and the private sector. At
the conclusion of the Forum The Beijing Declaration
was adopted.
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This publication is the result of
extensive debates, discussions, and presentations by
the FIG Task Force on Surveyors and Climate Change
over the past three years. Editor is John Hannah,
and contributing authors are Isaac Boateng, Sagi
Dalyot, Stig Enemark, Frank Friesecke, John Hannah,
David Mitchell, Paul van der Molen, Merrin Pearse,
Michael Sutherland, and Martinus Vranken. The
FIG Task Force on Surveyors and Climate Change set
out both to explore and report on where and how
surveyors could assist the global community in
measuring and monitoring climate change, and also to
elaborate on the part that they could play in
adapting to climate change and helping to mitigate
its impacts.
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Delegation from Brazil visiting the FIG Stand at
InterGeo
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2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the InterGeo
exhibition and conference. Again this year FIG
greeted many visitors at the FIG stand and had the
chance to talk to both members and potential future
members of FIG. FIG Vice President Rudolf Staiger
attended the exhibition and conference. Working Week
2015 Local Organising Committee was represented by
President Angel Yanakiev and Co-conference
Director Zlatan Zlatanov. The 2nd European
Young Surveyors conference was held in Berlin on 7
October.
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Meet FIG at INTERGEO -
7-9 October 2014
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Again this year FIG will be at 7-9 October
2014.
Visit us at stand D1.014.
Claudia,
Hanne and Louise from FIG office will be looking forward
to seeing you there. Come by or book a meeting in
advance at fig@fig.net.Have
a talk about FIG and about the next Working Weeks that
will take place in May 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria and May
2016 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Check your
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The UN-HABITAT Global Land Tool Network,
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and FIG
Young Surveyors Network would like to invite Young
Surveyors, Young Land Professionals and Youth working in
related fields to apply for participation in the Social
Tenure Domain Model – Training of Trainers. Deadline to
apply is 12 October 2014.
More information.
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FIG member associations are invited to consider
making a bid to host the FIG Working Week 2019 together
with FIG. At its meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria 17-21 May
2015, the FIG General Assembly will select the host and
venue for the Working Week 2019. The Council has
prepared bidding guidelines for making the bid. These
guidelines explain in detail the information that is
required for a successful bid. Deadline: 30 November
2014
Guidelines for FIG Working Week 2019
More information |
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2015 FIG Foundation PhD Scholarships
The FIG Foundation will be providing scholarships of
up to 4,000 euros to PhD students. Deadline for
application is 1 February 2015.
Read
more.. 2015 FIG Foundation Academic Research
Grants
he FIG Foundation will be providing research grants
of up to 30,000 euros spread over three years. Deadline
for application is 31 March 2015.
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Minister of Science and Tech-nology, Dr. San-Cheng
CHANG, officiating the Conference |
The invitation by the organisers of the 33rd edition
of Taiwan’s annual National Surveying and Spatial
Information Conference, National Taiwan University
(NTU), presented an opportunity for FIG to engage fellow
surveying and spatial information professionals in
Taiwan. The Taiwan Society of Cadastral Surveyors,
Taiwan Professional Surveying Engineers Association and
Taipei Professional Surveying Engineers Association also
facilitated the participation of the FIG President
CheeHai Teo. During the Official Opening segment of
the Conference, the Minister also officiated the launch
of Taiwan National Land Surveying and Mapping Center’s
eGNSS geodetic and positioning infrastructure.
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“The many environmental, developmental and
humanitarian challenges we are facing today, make it
increasingly apparent that location matters. Thus,
geospatial information is fundamental to decision
making, policy formulation, measuring and monitoring
development elements, all critical to the post 2015
development agenda. I encourage you to remain
continuously engaged and provide your expert advice for
all the processes mentioned above.” said Mr. WU
HongBo, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social
Affairs, United Nations (6th August 2014)
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L-R: Stefan Schweinfest, Director, UN Statistics
Division; Toru Nagayama, Secretary General ISCGM
& Prof. Paul Cheung, Chair ISCGM |
ISCGM had its birth at the first Rio
Conference and is supported by a commitment of the
Japanese Government to this day. They proposed the
“Global Mapping Project” as a contribution to global
environmental conservation from the mapping sector, in
response to “Agenda21” adopted at the “Earth Summit” in
1992. ISCGM currently also cooperate with UN-GGIM and
its Working Group on Global Mapping for Sustainable
Development (WG GM4SD). ISCGM is participated by UN
member states and is currently chaired by Prof. Paul
Cheung. FIG has liaison status and was represented by
President CheeHai Teo.
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The 2014 Annual Meeting of JBGIS was attended by
nine of the ten participating international
organization. The meeting agreed to support ICA’s
initiative for an “International Map Year” that will be
launched at ICA’s 2015 Congress. The initiative will
seek to showcase and raise awareness of the
contributions and importance of geospatial information,
of cartography and of maps. The fourth Session of UNGGIM
endorsed ICA’s proposed initiative for the
“International Map Year” for 2015/2016.
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The FIG Congress - where young and experienced surveyors
meet
Experiencing the amazing Malaysian Culture
The Malaysian Prime Minister gave an interesting opening
address at the opening ceremony
Presidents and heads of delegation from FIG members
planted 100 trees as part of a carbon offset programme
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"The FIG Congress is our global
forum where sciences, technologies, knowledge and
practices come together; where issues, initiatives,
researches and results converge and where cultures,
diversity, specialization and expertise assemble";
said FIG President Teo CheeHai, at the opening ceremony
of the Congress. More than 2500 from almost 100
countries attended the Congress that was co-organised by
FIG and the Malaysian Association of Land Surveyors,
PEJUTA. There were almost 60 exhibitors at the three-day
exhibition and the congress also offered more than 170
technical sessions with around 550 presenters. Some of
the sessions were organised in cooperation with the
partners World Bank, FAO, UN-ESCAP, UN-GGIM and
UN-Habitat/GLTN. The theme of the XXV FIG Congress ‘Engaging
the Challenges, Enhancing the Relevance’ was chosen
carefully to enlighten the many various activities that
FIG are involved in. A joint FIG/UN-GGIM-AP Statement
on Global Geodetic Reference Frame was adopted. Also a
series of approaches and tools as for example
“Fit-for-Purpose” Land Administration and the Social
Tenure Domain Model demonstrate that FIG, together with
its partners and the profession, are ready to engage
challenges as undernourishment, shelter, climate change
and economic progress with its sciences, technologies,
knowledge and practices.
Closing ceremony
General Assembly
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Report from FIG
General Assembly 2014
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Minutes
from FIG General Assembly 2014
Young Surveyors
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New elected Vice president Rudolf Staiger, President
Teo, incoming president Chryssy Potsiou, new elected
vice president Diane Dumashie and vice president Pengfei
Cheng
President Teo with new elected President Potsiou
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The FIG General Assembly was
held 16 and 21 June in Kuala Lumpur in conjunction to
the FIG Congress 2014. At the first session of the
General Assembly changes for the statutes were elected
hereunder a change in voting rights.
At the second session there were several elections. The
results of the elections are:
- FIG President 2015
- 2018: Chryssy Potsiou, Technical Chamber of
Greece
- Two elected FIG
Vice Presidents 2015 - 2018:
Rudolf Staiger, DVW, Germany and Diane
Dumashie, Royal Institution of Chartered
Surveyors, United Kingdom.
- FIG Working Week
2017: Helsinki, Finland
- Finnish Association of Geodetic and Land Surveyors
(MIL) and Finnish Association of Surveyors (MAKLI)
with the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) as
partner
- FIG Congress 2018:
Istanbul, Turkey -
Turkish Chamber of Survey and Cadastre Engineers
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Report from the
General Assembly
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General Assembly minutes
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2nd FIG Young Surveyors European Meeting, 7th October 2014,
Berlin, Germany
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The 2nd FIG Young Surveyors European Meeting in
Berlin, Germany on 7th October 2014 is jointly organized
by FIG Young Surveyors Network and KONGEOS (Conference
of Geodetic Students) supported by FIG, FIG Foundation,
CLGE, DVW, BDVI and OE.
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Socioeconomic Potential of Land Administration Services -
WPLA Workshop
21 - 23 May 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark
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The aim of the workshop was to investigate the
socioeconomic potential of land administration services
and to share experiences and present new and alternate
use of open and interoperable property data. The WPLA
workshop was successfully hosted by the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Danish
Geodata Agency.
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FIG Commission 3 Workshop and Meeting - 4-7 November 2014 in
Bologna, Italy
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The 2014 Workshop with the overall theme "Geospatial
Crowdsourcing and VGI: Establishment of SDI & SIM" will
be held in Bologna Italy 4-7 November 2014. At the same
event Commission 3 will also hold it's annual meeting.
Deadline for full papers for referee and for abstracts
for other papers: 7 September 2014.
Deadline for early bird registration: 1 October
2014
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FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and GeoConference 2014 -
7-11 October 2014 in Canada
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The Commission 7 team, in close
collaboration with the Canadian colleagues and the
Fédération des géomètres francophones (FGF – the
Francophone Federation of Surveyors), is preparing this
year a unique event which will take place in the Old
Quebec City, Canada, a UNESCO World Heritage. FIG
Commission 7 Annual meeting will be held in conjunction
with the conference.
More information
Web site:
www.geocongres2014.ca
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One of the most significant
technologies to emerge in recent decades has
been Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
The rise of such a global technology has
highlighted the need for countries to move from
locally defined geodetic datums to more global
datums based on the International Terrestrial
Reference Frame. This FIG publication is a
response by Commission 5 to this trend by
bringing together a series of fact sheets to
better inform surveyors about some of the key
issues they need to consider as they realign and
upgrade their professional knowledgebase. Editor
is Graeme Blick and authors consist of Graeme
Blick, Chris Crook, Nic Donnelly, Roger Fraser,
Mikael Lilje, David Martin, Chris Rizos, Daniel
R. Roman, Rob Sarib, Tomás Soler, Richard
Stanaway, and Neil D. Weston.
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Many land rights and land
claims are based on social tenures
and cannot be described in terms of
conventional, parcel-based
concepts. New forms of spatial units have
therefore been needed
for some time, and the Global Land Tools Network
(GLTN) developed a model to accommodate these
social tenures. It is called the Social Tenure
Domain Model (STDM). FIG undertook a peer review
of the STDM and commissioned key,
internationally recognized academics,
researchers and practitioners who are regarded
as experts in the land sector and who are from
FIG’s membership base.
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Chair of FIG Africa Task Force,
Dr. Diane Dumashie, is author of this FIG
Report which presents the objective and work
design of the FIG Africa Task Force (ATF),
identifies the interlinking themes, summarises
the contents and outcome of each workshop and
make recommendations for the way forward. The
FIG Africa Task Force was established at FIG’s
32nd General Assembly held in Eilat, May 2009.
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Commission 4 Working Group 4.1
has just published this FIG Guide. Authors are
Jerry Mills, chair of the Commission 4
Working Group and David Dodd, Technical
Expert to the Working Group. Commission 4 Chair,
Michael Sutherland, writes: "Many of the
groups using ERS techniques have developed their
internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
through in-house experience and trial-and-error
testing. It is this wealth of group information
that is being drawn upon to help develop a set
of “best practices” for the hydrographic
industry. The development of ERS best practices
is being conducted by International Federation
of Surveyors (FIG) working group 4.1 under
Commission 4 and will be shared with the IHO for
possible inclusion in International Hydrographic
Organization (IHO) publication C13, Manual on
Hydrography.
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What was a simple activity
report of Working Group 1 within FIG Commission
7 “Cadastre and Land Management” in 1998, has
over the years been translated into 28 languages
and was a topic in many forums, panel
discussions, roundtables and journal articles.
This simple activity report became a visionary
publication, found its way into conference halls
and lecture theatres, and became a reference
publication in many teaching
and research institutions. Now a new FIG report
has been published as a follow up on the
original publication, edited by Daniel
Steudler and supported by Federal Office of
Topography swisstopo, Wabern, Switzerland.
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Cost Effective GNSS Positioning
Techniques, FIG Publication 49, originally
published in 2010 is now available in an updated
2nd edition. The publication is a FIG Commission
5 publication and is written by Dr. Neil D.
Weston, United States and Prof. Dr.
Volker Schwieger, Germany. FIG Commission 5
Chair Mikael Lilje has written the
foreword.
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2013 was a productive year for
FIG. There were many arrangements, activities
and useful results and many within the FIG
community were engaged in all these happenings
for which FIG thanks very much. Read a summary
of the activities that took place in 2013 The
FIG Annual Review 2013 is now available as .pdf.
Hard copies will be mailed to all members
together with the minutes from the General
Assembly in Kuala Lumpur 2014. You can download
the FIG Annual Review here:
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FIG President CheeHai Teo met with Winnie
Shiu, an active member of FIG Commission 1 |
The
30th anniversary of the Department of Land
Surveying and Geoinformatics of the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University was celebrated. FIG
Congratulates Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
FIG President CheeHai Teo participated and also
gave a talk on Engaging Tomorrow's Challenges at
the Symposium on Geomatics Education and
Research: Challenges and Opportunities.
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It is a pleasure to
announce the upcoming release of version 1.0 of
the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) tool,
including its source codes from GLTN.
It will be officially
launched at the 25th Congress of the
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) on
20 June 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Prof Karpik and Prof Musikhin
during the Closing Ceremony |
This year’s GeoSiberia was a
milestone for the organizers, the tenth edition
and this event has grown to become a recognized
forum, one that combines an international
exhibition and scientific conference, providing
participants to gather annually and the
opportunity to make and renew friendships, to
debate and demonstrate the utility and
usefulness of geospatial sciences, technologies
and practices for sustainable national
development and nation building. FIG President
CheeHai Teo gave a plenary speech and also
visited the Siberian State Academy of Geodesy.
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The Earth Monitoring
Competition 2014 is now open for submissions -
with a prize pool worth well over EUR 300,000.
In 2014, for the first time, the Copernicus
Masters is carried out on a worldwide basis.
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25 enthusiastic surveyors from
15 states had a lively discussion on how to
establish a Young Surveyors presence and program
within North America. Discussions pointed out
that there is the need for interaction,
collaboration and communication between the
young and the more seasoned professionals.
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The participants at the CLGE meeting |
An Ice Breaker celebrating the
official announcement of the European Surveyor
of the Year for 2014, G.F.W. von Struve,
was held on Thursday, 20 March.FIG was
represented by FIG Foundation President John
Hohol. Also in attendance was Eva-Maria
Unger, Chair-Elect of the FIG Young
Surveyors Network.
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The FIG General Assembly will be held 16 and 21
June in Kuala Lumpur in conjunction to the FIG Congress
2014. The main issues on the agenda will be election of FIG
President and two Vice Presidents for the period 2015-2017
and election of venues for FIG Working Week 2017 and FIG
Congress 2018. There will also be voting to amendments of
the statutes. The agenda is now available and the FIG Office
has sent an invitation and hard copy of the agenda without
appendices to all members.
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The participants at the CGE meeting |
An Ice Breaker celebrating the
official announcement of the European Surveyor
of the Year for 2014, G.F.W. von Struve,
was held on Thursday, 20 March.FIG was
represented by FIG Foundation President John
Hohol. Also in attendance was Eva-Maria
Unger, Chair-Elect of the FIG Young
Surveyors Network.
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FIG was represented by Past President Stig
Enemark and President of CLGE Jean-Yves
Pirlot |
The European Parliament states
that land tenure security and property rights
provides an opportunity to improve and
consolidate bases for development and poverty
reduction in some of the poorest regions of the
world. A one day conference was held at the
European Parliament to discuss the future of
land policy in developing countries and the role
of the international community, and the EU in
particular, in the post 2015-development
framework.
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The 2014 Land and Poverty
Conference was attended by over 1,200
participants over four days, and FIG and the
Bank jointly and successfully organized a
day-long Forum on “Spatial Innovation and Good
Practices” on the fifth day. The overall focus
was on the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda. The
Forum witnessed the launch of the joint World
Bank and FIG Declaration on Fit-for-Purpose Land
Administration providing the framework on
getting the right data and information, the
right processes and technologies, all for the
right purposes.
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The International Federation of
Surveyors (FIG) Foundation, The Aubrey Barker
Fund, and The University of the West Indies St.
Augustine
had sponsored Mr. Jamal Browne's
participation in the 2014 World Bank Conference
on Land Poverty.
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After seven years in the
position Secretary General of International
Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM),
Yoshikazu Fukushima steps down, since he
is retiring from the public service at the
Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI).
ISCGM is member of JBGIS - Joint Board of
Geospatial Information Societies. New Secretary
General is Mr. Toru Nagayama, appointed
by Dr. Paul Cheung, Chair of ISCGM.
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Young Surveyors/Professionals
and youth can apply for participation in the
Social Tenure Domain Model – Training of
Trainers. The 3.5 days training will be
organized as a joint activity by FIG, Global
Land Tool Network (GLTN) and FIG Young Surveyors
Network. The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM)
is a concept and tool developed by the Global
Land Tool Network (GLTN), as facilitated by
UN-Habitat, to support pro-poor land
administration. Application deadline: 6 April
2014.
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This publication is the result
of cooperation between the World Bank and the
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) over
recent years to address the issue of building
and sustaining land administration systems that
are basically fit-for-purpose rather than
blindly complying with top-end technological
solutions and rigid regulations for accuracy.
The cooperation started by the joint FIG / World
Bank conference in 2009 addressing “Land
Governance in Support of the Millennium
Development Goals”. The concept of
“fit-for-purpose” emerged from various events
indicating that land administration should be
designed to meet the needs of people and their
relationship to land, to support security of
tenure for all and to sustainably manage land
use and natural resources.
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Immediately after the 2014
World Bank Land and Poverty Conference
(March 24 - 27) a one-day ‘Spatial Innovation
and Good Practices’ forum will be jointly
convened by the Bank and FIG on 28 March 2014.
The Forum will be open to all registered
participants to the Conference but prior
notification of attendance will be requested.
The Forum will cover a number of themes focusing
on the contribution of spatial technologies and
practices to support the Post-2015 Development
Agenda.
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Julie Hyun Sook Lee has communicated with
many in the FIG community during her 1-year stay
at the FIG Office |
I have spent a year in FIG
office in Copenhagen, Denmark and am about to
leave this beautiful country.
When I was a freshman in University I have
studied about “Cadastre 2014” and “FIG” from the
text books and journals. I had no idea what
would happen in 2013 to me!
My Company (LX Korea Cadastral Survey Corp.)
and Korean government had a long term
plan for capacity building with International
relationship with many other organizations such
as World Bank and UN, and of course with FIG!
Our former president, Young Ho, Kim, had
an idea how to contribute from Korea to help the
FIG Office. We stunned and hoped to get a chance
to have an opportunity to get an internship in
FIG.
I got the chance to go to the FIG office in
Copenhagen, Denmark for one year. Even though,
it was named as an internship, there was always
an equal position and attitude...
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Be part of the FIG Young
Surveyors 1st North American Network Meeting!
Following the success of the 1st FIG Young
Surveyors European meeting, we are pleased to
announce the 1st FIG Young Surveyors North
American meeting! Join the meeting, see some of
the plenary speakers and
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Secretary General of PAIGH Santiago Borrero steps down
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Santiago Borrero has served for ten years
as Secretary General of PAIGH |
After ten years serving as
Secretary General of PAIGH, Pan American
Institute of Geography and History, Santiago
Borrero, Colombia, stepped down from the
post on 7 February 2014. PAIGH, a sister society
to FIG, is a part of the Inter-American system
coordinated by the Organization of American
States – OAS. Santiago Borrero says: "It has
been a great personal and professional
experience and I hope I have contributed to the
institutional development of the Pan American
specialized community working in the areas of
geospatial information, governance and
development". Rodrigo Barriga, Chile,
is taking over the position as Secretary
General.
Memory report by Santiago Borrero (Spanish,
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The Trustees of the Aubrey Barker Fund have
announced that the fund will consider applications from
student organisations within the field of land surveying,
quantity surveying and land economy to support student
meetings.
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Expired - Call for nominations for FIG President and Vice
Presidents for FIG for 2015-2018
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Current FIG Council 2013-2014 (from left): VP
Rudolf Staiger, Germany, VP Chryssy Potsiou
Greece, President CheeHai Teo, Malaysia, VP
Pengfei Cheng China, ACCO rep. Yerach
Doytsher. VP Bruno Razza Italy was
unfortunately not present for the photo session. |
At the FIG Congress 2014, the 37th FIG
General Assembly will take place on 16 and 21 June 2014.
FIG Council is hereby inviting Member Associations to
consider nominations for FIG President and for two FIG
Vice Presidents for the period 2015-2018.
Nominations must be received by Louise Friis-Hansen at
louise.friis-hansen@fig.net.
Deadline for nominations: 15 February 2014.
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On Monday 13 January 2014 the
International Property Measurement Standards
Coalition (IPMSC) has launched a public
consultation on the new International Property
Measurement Standard (IPMS) for office
buildings.
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