International Federation of Surveyors
Fédération Internationale des Géomètres
Internationale Vereinigung der Vermessungsingenieure
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Article of the Month – August 2008
On the FIG web site we publish each month a paper called the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topics to all surveyors. It can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event. The Article of the Month in August 2008 is written by Mr. Tony Burns and Dr. Kate Dalrymple from Australia. Their paper “Conceptual Framework for Governance in Land Administration” has been prepared and was presented at the FIG Working Week in Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June 2008.
www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/august_2008/august_2008_burns_dalrymple.html
News from last month
FIG XXIV Congress in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010 - The joint venture agreement between FIG and ISA was signed during the visit of FIG President Stig Enemark to Sydney 1 August 2008
Read more: www.fig.net/news/news_2008/sydney_august_2008.htm
Proceedings of the Joint Symposium “Measuring the Changes” – the FIG 13th Symposium on Deformation Measurement and Analysis and the IAG 4th Symposium on Geodesy for Geotechnical and Structural Engineering - Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 May 2008
Read more: proceedings: www.fig.net/commission6/lisbon_2008/ Report: www.fig.net/news/news_2008/lisbon_may_2008.htm
Other news
International Seminar on State and Public Land Management in Verona, Italy, 9-10 September 2008
International Seminar on State and Public Land Management will be organised in Verona, Italy, September 9-10, 2008, just before the FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting. The seminar is organised by FIG Commission 7 and the Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG), in co-operation with FIG Commission 9 and FAO Land Tenure and Management Unit. The major goal of the seminar is to share experience and discuss policy options and practices in relation to state and public sector land management, including between land managers, policy advisers and decision makers and their professional advisers, and the civil society organisations working in these areas. The seminar will help raise global awareness of problems associated with state/public land and its management, improve knowledge of good practices in this area, and encourage these to be increasingly addressed in new development initiatives. Registration has been closed 30 July 2008.
Read more: web site: www.collegio.geometri.vr.it/seminar/
Programme of the Seminar: www.fig.net/commission7/verona_fao_2008
Programme of Commission 7 Annual Meeting and open symposium: www.fig.net/commission7/verona_am_2008
FIG/CIREA/HKIS Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection - 18-19 October, Beijing, China P. R.
Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection is organised by FIG Commission 9, CIREA and HKIS and supported by FIG Commission 8.
Web site: www.fig.net/commission9/beijing_2008
Register at: https://www.fig.net/registrations/regform.asp?eventid=60
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2008
Deadline for registrations: 3 September 2008
Forthcoming events
International Seminar on State and Public Land Management, Verona, Italy, 9-10 September 2008
Organised by CNG, FAO and Commission 7. Co-sponsored by Commission 9.
Read more: www.fig.net/commission7
Web site: www.collegio.geometri.vr.it/seminar/
Commission 7 Annual Meeting and International Workshop on “Land Administration – Impact of Big Construction Works on Territory”, Verona, Italy, 11-15 September 2008.
Organised by Commission 7 and CNG.
Read more: www.fig.net/commission7
Web site: www.collegio.geometri.vr.it/meeting/
European Surveyors Congress Strasbourg 2008 – The Perspectives: The Role of Surveyors in the European Economy and Society, Strasbourg, France, 17-19 September 2008
Co-sponsored by FIG.
Read more: www.geometre-strasbourg2008.eu/
10th Congreso Internacional Topografia, Catastro y Geodesia, San José, Costa Rica, 18-20 September 2008
Co-sponsored by FIG.
Read more: www.colegiotopografoscr.com/congreso2008.htm
Seminar on Appraisal and Property Protection, Beijing, China P.R., 18-19 October 2008
Organised by Commission 9, CIREA and HKIS and co-sponsored by Commission 8.
Deadline for abstracts is 1 September 2008 and for registrations 3 September 2008.
Read more: www.fig.net/commission9/beijing_2008/
INGEO 2008 – 4th International Conference on Engineering Surveying.
Co-sponsored by FIG Commission 6. Bratislava, Slovakia, 23-24 October 2008
Second invitation: www.fig.net/events/2008/INGEO%202008/ingeo_2announcement.pdf
Read more: web.svf.stuba.sk/kat/GDE/Welcome.html
Commission 3 Workshop on Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas. Mainz, Germany, 3-5 February 2009
Deadline for papers: 6 October 2008
Read more: www.fig.net/commission3
Navigating the Future of Surveying Education - Workshop on Educational Management and Marketing, Vienna, Austria, 26-28 February 2009 Organised by FIG Commission 2 WG 2.3.
Read more: http://fig09.ovg.at/
Joint FIG / World Bank Conference – Land Governance in Support of the MDGs, Washington DC, USA, 9-10 March 2009
Conference is organised by FIG and the World Bank – attendance by invitation only.
Read more: www.fig.net
FIG Working Week 2009, Eilat, Israel, 3-8 May 2009
Read more: www.fig.net/fig2009
9th Conference on Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques, Vienna, Austria, 1-3 July 2009
Co-sponsored by Commission 5 and 6.
Read more: http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ingeo/optical3d/
10th South East Asian Survey Conference (SEASC’09), Bali; Indonesia, 4-7 August 2009
Co-sponsored by FIG.
Contact: dkirana@bakosurtanal.go.id
7th FIG Regional Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October 2009
Read more: www.fig.net/vietnam
For additional FIG and FIG Commission events see always up-to-date information at:
www.fig.net/events/events.htm
Job opportunities (latest updated 18 August 2008)
Read more: www.fig.net/jobs/jobindex.htm
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