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FIG President Stig Enemark and CFIA/CIT President
Juan Manuel Castro Alfaro at the Opening Ceremony |
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FIG President Prof. Stig Enemark together with
Executive Director of CFIA Ing. Olman Vargas Zeledon
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The 6th FIG Regional Conference held in Costa Rica was the first
in Latin America and a great success
The 6th FIG Regional Conference was organized by the
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and the Colegio
Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA)/
Colegio de Ingenieros Topógrafos de Costa Rica (CIT) which is
the FIG member association in Costa Rica. As has been the case with
the previous FIG regional conferences the conference in San José was
organized in co-operation with other international and regional
organizations like the United Nations and its agencies as well as
with international and regional spatial information societies.
The expected attendance to the conference was mainly
Latin American but the conference attracted delegates from
Australia, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. 65% of the
delegates came from the Central America and the Caribbean. To help
regional and local participation the conference was held in English
and Spanish.
This was the first time that the FIG Regional
Conference was held in Latin America. Costa Rica offers best
possible venue for such an important event. The theme of this
regional event was selected so that it focused on the hot topics in
the region which are capacity building, land administration and
environmental issues, especially the use and future of coastal
regions. Based on the outcome of the conference “Coastal Areas
and Land Administration – Building the Capacity” FIG will also
prepare an FIG publication “Methodologies for Pro-Poor Coastal
Zone Management”
The Technical Programme held a very high professional
standard and the overall impression of the Regional Conference was
very positive both from the organizers point of view and from the
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Ms.
Winnie Shiu, Congress Director FIG 2007 opens the Opening
Ceremony. |
Strategic Integration of Surveying Services -
First Working Week for the new FIG Council a big success
The FIG Working Week 2007 and XXX General
Assembly was organised in Hong Kong SAR, China 13-17 May 2007.
The conference was attended by more than 500 delegates from 64
countries. The Working Week was organised by the Hong Kong
Institute of Surveyors HKIS together with FIG.
The technical and scientific programme of the
conference consisted 60 technical sessions and almost 300
papers. The proceedings are available
here
At the plenary session after the opening
ceremony the keynote addresses were given by Dr. Leung Ying,
GBS, JP, Convenor of the Non-official Members of the Executive
Council of the Hong Kong SAR. The second keynote speaker was
President Enemark, whose presentation was about "The Role of
FIG in Responding the Millennium Goals and the Global Agenda".
The other two plenary sessions focussed on
Governing Mega Cities - policies and technical aspects with
Prof. Holger Magel, Mr. Albert Leung and Mr.
Tony Tse as the keynote speakers. The final plenary session
was about Responding to the Global agenda with Keith Bell
from the World Bank, Prof. Theo Kötter from Uni Bonn and
Dr. Xiao Ping as the keynote speakers.
Read full report of the
Working Week. |
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FIG President
Stig Enemark making his Opening Address. |
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Mr.
Raymond Chan, President of the Hong Kong Institute of
Surveyors HKIS, the host organisation of the Working Week,
making his opening address. |
Links to documents and reports of the FIG Working
Week and XXX General Assembly in Hong Kong SAR, China
- Keynote presentations:
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Opening Address by President
Stig Enemark
- "The Role of FIG in Responding to the Millennium
Development Goals and the Global Agenda". Keynote
Address by President Enemark
- "Global Expertise for Globalized Markets". Keynote
Address by C. Y. Leung, Convenor, Executive Council
of HKSAR
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Closing Address
by President Enemark (handouts of the powerpoint
presentation)
- Conference Proceedings
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Meeting programme
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FIG General Assembly 2007, Hong Kong SAR, China 13 and 17 May 2007
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Minutes
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