FIG workshop on e-Governance, Knowledge Management and e-Learning

27-29 April 2006, Budapest, Hungary

The FIG workshop on e-Governance, Knowledge Management and e-Learning was held on in Budapest, between 27 and 29 April 2006 in the cooperation with

• the College Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary,
• the Hungarian Society of Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing and
• the International Federation of Surveyors
  • Commission 2 – Professional Education,
  • Commission 3 - Spatial Information management,
  • Commission 7 - Cadastre.

The workshop was hosted in the picturesque belt of Hotel Rubin.

Thirty presentations were given in nine sessions during the conference. The speakers represented educational and governmental institutes as well as private foundations from all over Europe. The diversity of submitted papers can be seen based on the number of countries represented by the authors. They came from 16 different countries.

The goal of the workshop was to reveal the present state of e-governmental activities, the solutions of arising problems as well as the trends-would-be. Nowadays there is high significance of knowledge acquisition, utilisation and distribution. According to this, there is wide-range opportunity to update and renew teaching methods exploiting the advantage of information technology-provided facilities.

The materials can most effectively be distributed over the Internet to the trainees and learning groups helping their preparation as well as supporting each other during their learning. Thus the presentations of the workshop covered the e-governmental activities in our profession, the roles of knowledge centres, their maintenances, facilities, furthermore the up-to-date educational methods including their technical backgrounds.

The three days workshop was finished by the meeting of Commission 2. The representatives presented the current activities of Commission 2, furthermore delineated and discussed the workplan for the period of 2006-2010.

• This report as a .pdf file

• Proceedings

• Picture Gallery

Prof. Béla Márkus welcomes the participants of workshop.	Mr. Fülöp Benedek, State Secretary ,Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hungary, opens the workshop
Mr. Markku Markkula, Director of Dipoli in Finland made a keynote presentation that has been published as the article of the month in June 2006
Opening session
The participants.
All participants of the workshop outside the venue.	FIG Commission Chairs and Chairs elect in Budapest.
Session chairs.	Bela Markus and Kari Strande at the social function.
The proceedings.