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International Federation of
Surveyors Fédération Internationale
des Géomètres Internationale Vereinigung
der Vermessungsingenieure FIG
e-Newsletter |
Dear
Colleague,
Welcome to the FIG
e-Newsletter, which brings you latest information about FIG and its activities.
The information referred here is in full length available on the FIG web site.
Thus the e-Newsletter is produced to inform you what has happened recently and
what interesting things are going to take place in the near future. The FIG
e-Newsletter is circulated monthly by e-mail. The referred articles are in
English and written in a way that you are able to extract them to your national
newsletters or circulate to your members and
networks.
Article of the Month – October
2009
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
October 2009 is written by Dr. Isaac
Boateng from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. He is also
the Vice Chair of Administration of FIG Commission 8. His paper "Spatial Planning and Climate Change Adaption in
Coastal Regions: The Case of Vietnam" His paper has been prepared for
presentation at the 7th FIG Regional Conference in
www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/october_2009/october_2009_boateng.html
7th
FIG Regional Conference - Spatial Data Serving People - Land Governance and the
Environment - Building the Capacity, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19-22 October
2009
7th FIG Regional
Conference - Spatial Data Serving People -
Land Governance and the Environment - Building the Capacity will be
held in
Read more on the
conference web site: www.fig.net/vietnam
Technical programme
and proceedings are available at: www.fig.net/pub/vietnam
Register now on:
https://www.fig.net/registrations/regform.asp?eventid=63.
FIG
Congress 2010 - Facing the Challenges – Building the Capacity, Sydney,
Australia, 11-16 April 2010
FIG
Congress 2010 - Facing the Challenges – Building the
Capacity will be held in
www.fig.net/fig_2010/fig2010_final_invitation.pdf
(20 pages, 1.26 MB).
Online registration
is open on the congress web site: www.fig2010.com
Deadline for
abstracts has passed but late coming proposals for non peer review papers will
be considered. Please submit your abstract today online: www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=12
The organisers have
already received more than 750 abstracts from 80 countries including 125
proposals for peer review papers.
The organisers have
also announced the FIG 2010 Congress Prize, read
more:
www.fig.net/fig_2010/prize.htm
Call
for nominations - Election of FIG President for 2011-2014, 2 Vice Presidents,
Chairs of all FIG Commissions, and selection of the venue for the FIG Congress
2014
At its meeting in
Call for nominations:
www.fig.net/news/news_2009/elections_2010/call_for_nominations_sept_2009.pdf
Nomination template for the
President election: www.fig.net/news/news_2009/elections_2010/nomination_template_pres.doc
Nomination template for the Vice
President election:
www.fig.net/news/news_2009/elections_2010/nomination_template_vp.doc
News
from last month:
President
Stig Enemark attends the Norwegian Annual Conference 2009 - Son,
FIG President Stig Enemark attended the Annual Conference
“Areal og Ejendom” (Land and
Property 2009) in Son in
Read more: www.fig.net/news/news_2009/norway_september_2009.htm
INTERGEO
2009 leads the way out from the economic crisis – FIG 2010 promotion well
received at the leading geo exhibition - Karlsruhe, Germany, 22-24 September
2009
INTERGEO 2009 exceeded the
expectations of the organisers attracting over 16,000 visitors including a rise
in the proportion of international visitors to a total of 22 per cent, and 1,450
congress participants. The congress and the trade fair did far more than the
expectations of DVW. According to comments from the exhibitors the sales and
business contacts were in increase compared to last year’s show.
Read more: www.fig.net/news/news_2009/intergeo_september_2009.htm
FIG
attends IAG 2009 ”Geodesy for Planet Earth” -
The International Association of
Geodesy (IAG) organised the “Geodesy for
Planet Earth” conference in
Read more: www.fig.net/news/news_2009/buenos_aires_august_2009.htm
Visits
and news from Member Associations (latest updated
12 October
2009)
FIG is publishing short stories on
visits, news from members and interesting news on persons. Latest news and
visits:
-
President Stig Enemark meets with Honorary President
Peter Dale
www.fig.net/personalia/index.htm#President
Publications:
FIG
Annual Review 2008
The FIG Annual
Review 2008 is available on the web at: www.fig.net/annual_review/anrew08/areview2008.pdf (32 pages, 3.8 MB).
Hard copies can be ordered from the FIG Office, email: [log in to unmask].
Forthcoming
events:
FIG
Commission 7 One-day International Symposium “Progressing Towards u-Cadastre” -
15 October 2009,
Symposium programme: www.fig.net/commission7/malaysia_2009/symp_program.htm
FIG
Commission 7 Annual Meeting and one-day International Symposium,
Organised by FIG Commission
7.
Read more: www.fig.net/commission7
7th
FIG Regional Conference,
Read more: www.fig.net/vietnam
Technical programme and
proceedings: www.fig.net/pub/vietnam
Register
at: https://www.fig.net/registrations/regform.asp?eventid=63.
International
Symposium “Modern Technologies, Education and Professional Practice in Geodesy
and Related Fields,
Co-sponsored by FIG Commission
2.
XXIV
FIG International Congress - Facing the Challenges - Building the Capacity and
XXXIII General Assembly, Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April
2010
Read more: www.fig2010.com and
register to the congress now.
Deadline for
abstracts has passed but late coming proposals will be considered, submit your abstract online now:
www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=12.
For additional FIG and FIG Commission
events
see always up-to-date information at: www.fig.net/events/events.htm
Job and project opportunities
(latest updated 6 October
2009)
Please notice that the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) has
published an announcement is to form a roster of candidates for consultancy
assignments and FAO is recruiting
people for the Voluntary Guidelines process on the governance of tenure of land
- closing date for both is 15 October
2009.
Read more: www.fig.net/jobs/jobindex.htm
Benefits
from FIG Corporate Members to FIG members and members of FIG member
associations
FIG Corporate Members offer some
benefits to FIG members and members of member associations. These benefits are
published on a specific web site:
www.fig.net/corporatemembers/corporate_benefits.htm
At the moment you can get e.g. a
free subscription of GIM International:
http://www.gim-international.com/figmember/
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regards,
FIG
Director
International Federation of
Surveyors, FIG
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31-33
DK-1780
Tel. + 45 3886 1081 (FIG
Office)
Tel. + 358 44 3570911
(direct)
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