Commission 7 of the International Federation of Surveyors conducted its annual meeting in an online format between the 20th and
22nd of October 2020.
The theme of the conference was:
Building community resilience: Urban-rural land linkages and
strategies to deal with COVID-19
During the annual meeting, commission delegates, working group
chairs and special invitees presented their views on how to
enhance synergies between rural and urban land tenure projects.
Key questions to be answered as part of the annual meeting were:
What are key principles all land projects should follow to
ensure synergies independently if they are urban or rural?
What is the role of new instruments such as PPPs to ensure
rural-urban land integration?
What is the role of new trends in education in the surveying
profession to support community resilience?
What are key strategies to ensure urban-rural integration in
the context of community resilience?
What lessons have been learnt around the world during the
COVID-19 pandemic related to the need for urban-rural land
linkage?
1: Opening Asia-Pacific - Land
Administration 2020
This session provides an overview of key global
land administration developments in 2020, for both urban/rural
areas - including developments at the World Bank; the adoption
of UN-GGIM FELA; impacts of Covid19; and other thought-leader
viewpoints
Dr. Keith Bell, Senior Technical Specialist,
World Bank Land Administration 2020: A Global Perspective [abstract] [bio]
[presentation]
Dr. Eva-Maria Unger and Mr. Kees de
Zeeuw, UN-GGIM/Kadaster International Framework for Effective Land Administration Adopted [abstract]
[bio] [presentation]
Professor Michael Barry, University of
Calgary Hybrid Governance, and Evolutionary Land Tenure Records
Development (Monwabisi Park Informal Settlement) [abstract] [bio]
[presentation]
Dr. Kate Rickersey, Land Equity
International State-of-Play and Future Directions in the Land Sector
[abstract] [bio]
[presentation]
Moderator:
Dr. Rohan Bennett,
the Netherlands
Rapporteur:
Dr. Kwabena Asiama, FIG Young
Surveyors Network
English
Tuesday 20 October
2020
Session
Title
Language
Session 2: Blended learning: lessons from our responses to
COVID:19 - in cooperation with FIG Commission 2
- Education
During 2020, there have been significant developments in
surveying professional education due to the COVID-19
restrictions. Many surveying academic institutions rapidly
adapted by moving learning and teaching completely online.
This session aims to focus on the lessons from these
experiences for future blended learning.
Chethna Ben, University of South Pacific:
University of South Pacific experience in online learning for
students across many islands.
[abstract] [bio]
[presentation]
David Mitchell, RMIT University
How are students learning and studying during
COVID-19: Preliminary results of student questionnaire
[abstract] [bio]
[presentation]
Dimo
Todorovksi, University of Twente
Blended learning: lessons from our experience regard response
to Covid19; Faculty ITC, University of Twente, the Netherlands
[abstract] [bio]
[presentation]
Kelly Lickley, RICS
Online and Blended learning in RICS professional development
[abstract] [bio]
[presentation]
Followed by a discussion
Moderator:
Associate Prof. David Mitchell, RMIT University,
Chair FIG Commission 2
Rapporteur:
Chethna Ben, FIG Young Surveyors Network
English
Session 3: Opening (Europe) and Consultation of
the GLTN Urban-rural land linkage framework (with GLTN
Professional Cluster)
In an increasingly globalised world, solutions to global
problems require both local and global solutions. In this
session presenters will discuss current challenges faced
around the world with the COVID-19 pandemic and opportunities
for better integration between urban and rural projects.
Dr. Prof. Rudolf Staiger, President FIG
Mr. Daniel Paez, Chair FIG Commission 7
[presentation]
Mr. Danilo Antonio, GLTN Program Management
Officer
[bio]
[presentation]
Dr.-Ing. Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Researcher & Doctoral
Program Coordinator Technical University of Munich
[presentation]
Moderator: Daniel Paez, Chair, FIG Commission 7
Rapporteur: Jean Pierre Habiyaremye, FIG Young Surveyors
Network
English
Session 4: Ouverture - Opportunités et défis
de l'interrelation urbainet rurale
Daniel Roberge, International Consultant La sécurisation foncière en Afrique : Fragile équilibre
entre sécurité alimentaire et urbanisation [presentation]
Claire Galpin, Senior Land Administration Specialist
The World Bank
Changement des usages fonciers en périurbanité ou comment
créer des terrains à bâtir dans les villes du Sud [bio] [presentation]
Rafic Khouri, Association of Surveyors Arab States
Le Monde Rural dans les Pays Arabes [presentation]
Moderator: Daniel Roberge, International Consultant
Rapporteur: Michel Morneau
Francais
Session 5: Apertura - Oportunidades y retos de la
interrelación urbana y rural
La necesidad de resolver los problemas de la tenencia de
tierras obliga a los países a buscar innovación y proyectos a
largo plazo.
En este sesión los presentadores discutirán los retos y
oportunidades para la resiliencia comunitaria que ha traído
COVID-19 para el sector de las tierras.
Ivonne Moreno,
The World Bank
Juan Daniel Oviedo, Director DANE Colombia (National
Statistics Department)
Prof.Changgen Zhan, Wuhan
University
多测合一背景下的不动产测绘发展趋势
[bio]
Prof. Liang Huang, Chinese
Land Survey and Planning Institute
自然资源统一确权登记目标下的地籍调查
[bio]
Senior engineer Huanle He,
Chinese Land Survey and Planning Institute
“一码管地”全流程地籍调查机制探讨
[bio]
UngYong (Barry)
Park, Korea LX
Moderator:
Prof. Huayi Wu, Wuhan University (China)
Rapporteur: Yue Ying, FIG Young Surveyors Network
Mandarin (普通话)
Session 7: Building Community resilience
in the land administration sector
Experiences around the world have demonstrated that new
challenges in community resilience could be tackled by
cooperation, innovation and better understanding of complex
problems. In this session, practitioners from around the world
will present their experiences and proposals for better land
tenure using tools and policies based on innovation and
technologies.
Rafael Tuts, Director, Global Solutions Division
Nairobi, Kenya | United Nations Gigiri Campus Addressing Urbanization Challenges in the Urban-Rural
Continuum [bio]
Dr. Kim Taikjin and Dr.
Simon Jeon, Korean LX
James Kavanagh,
RICS
Ms Gerda Schennach BEV - Bundesamt für Eich-
und Vermessungswesen Federal, Office of Metrology and
Surveying
Vladimir Evtimov, Land Tenure Officer FAO
Chryssy Potsiou, Professor of Cadastre and
Land Management, National Technical University of Athens,
Greece
Moderator:
Mohsen Kalantari Soltanieh, Australia
Rapporteur: Sylion Muramira, FIG Young Surveyors Network
English
Session 8: Land PPPs and the role of the private
sector during the recovery (with WPLA)
FIG, in cooperation with UNECE Working Party in Land
Administration (WPLA) is currently reviewing overall
principles for the use of public-private partnerships as a
mechanism to improve land administration services and
infrastructure. This workshop will discuss results from a
survey to UNECE country members and explore areas where new
principles should be considered.
Peter Creuzer, Director of the Agency State
Survey and Geospatial Basic Information in the Authority for
Geoinformation and State Survey of Lower Saxony (LGLN)
Mr. Della R. Abdullah, Expert Staff of the
Minister of Land Affairs and Spatial Planning on Information
Technology
Mr. Daniel Paez, Chair FIG Commission 7
Moderator:
Kirsikka Riekkinen
English
Session 9: Land Administration and the SDGs
A look into land administration initiatives responding to
the UN SDGs including developments relating to ISO 19152 LADM
Edition II, STDM, and initiatives relating to FFP-LA.
Prof. Christiaan Lemmen with Eftychia
Kalogianni, ISO and OGC LADM II in support of the
SDGs [abstract]
[bio]
Frank Pichel &Amy Coughenour,
Cadasta Cadasta and the SDGs [abstract]
[bio]
Paula Dijkstra, FIG Working Group
on FFPLA and Kadaster International FFP-LA and SDG [abstract]
[bio]
Simon Ulvund, Meridia Meridia and the SDGs [Abstract]
[Bio]
Moderator:
Dr. Mila Koeva
Rapporteur:
Dr. Rohan Bennett,
the Netherlands
English
Session 10: Cadastral Modernization - 3D, Twins,
and Automation
This session explores technical advances in cadastres and
land registries including 3D cadastres, digital twins,
automation, and AI.
Prof. Peter van Oosterom, TU-Delft 3D and LADM II [bio]
Dr. Mila Koeva, University of Twente AI and VR in LA [bio]
Mr. Brent Jones, esri Geospatial Infrastructure Enabling Land Administration
Systems Modern Technology for Modern Cadastral and Valuation
Systems [abstract] [bio]
Prof.
Abbas Rajabifard, The University of Melbourne Digital Twin and Advancement in 3D Urban Land
Administration [bio]
Moderator:
Prof. Christiaan Lemmen, the Netherlands
Rapporteur: Charles Atakora, FIG Young Surveyors Network
Rafael Tuts is Director of the Global Solutions Division
of UN-Habitat, based at its Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
He is overseeing the development and application of
UN-Habitat’s normative guidelines through global programmes.
He is currently also leading an agency-wide effort to
analyze the State of the World’s Cities in the fight against
COVID-19, focusing on multi-level governance, inequality,
spatial structure and urban economy.
From 2016 to 2019 he was Director of the Programme
Division of UN-Habitat, overseeing its seven thematic
branches and four regional offices. From 2012 to 2016 he was
Coordinator of the Urban Planning and Design Branch of
UN-Habitat, promoting compact, integrated and connected
cities that are inclusive and resilient to climate change.
Earlier leading assignments at UN-Habitat included the
Localising Agenda 21 Programme, the Training and Capacity
Branch and the Cities and Climate Change Initiative.
Following the Rio+20 Conference, he coordinated UN-Habitat’s
engagement in formulating the Sustainable Development Goals,
including SDG-11 on ‘making cities and human settlements inclusive,
safe, resilient and sustainable’.
He authored and co-edited several publications on a wide range of
sustainable urban development topics, including ‘Urban Trialogues’,
a book reflecting on urban space as a resource for sustainable
development, based on work in Morocco, Kenya, Vietnam and Cuba.
Together with colleagues from the World Bank, UNEP and Cities
Alliance, he received the World Bank Vice-President Team Award in
2011 for global partnership building on Cities and Climate Change.
He also received ISOCARP’s 50th Anniversary Award in 2015, in
recognition of UN-Habitat’s urban planning work.
Before joining UN-Habitat in 1995, he worked for the Department
of Architecture, Urbanism, and Planning of the University of Leuven
in Belgium and the Housing Research and Development Unit of the
University of Nairobi. In 1985, he obtained a Masters of Science
degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Leuven.
In December 2016, he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor
from the same university.
