FIG Working Week and FIG/UN-HABITAT Seminar

Welcome to Sweden and Stockholm to attend the International conference:

Working Week 14-19 June and Technical Conference 16-18 June 2008
Stockholm City Conference Center (Norra Latin and Folkets Hus), Stockholm

The main themes of the technical conference include globalization of land markets and finance, the rapid urbanisation, sustainable development and modern technologies for land use management. These are all key issues of the joint FIG/UN-HABITAT Seminar which is a fully integrated part of the FIG Working Week during its first two days.

The conference is for You working with real estate development, land issues, the built environment, valuation and finance, surveying, environmental planning, spatial data, research, education etc.

Are we a missing link? The conference is part of the FIG work programme for 2007-2010, bringing surveyors' role into the future and responding to the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations.

More information about the conference: www.fig.net/fig2008 and about the seminar
Proceedings of the conference: www.fig.net/pub/fig2008 and of the seminar

Can we contribute with our experience to improve the housing standard and living conditions - for the one third of the world’s urban citizens living in the slums?

A two-day seminar, jointly organised by FIG and UN-HABITAT, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, invites key-actors in linking the Land Administration Chain. Having no security of tenure and no access to functioning financial mechanisms, one billion people are kept from achieving an acceptable housing standard.

We will explore the possibilities for changing this by the surveying world meeting the financial sector.

Keynote speakers include:
Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT Michael Mutter, Senior Adviser, SUF, UN-HABITAT Andreas Carlgren, Minister for the Environment, Sweden Stig Enemark, FIG President Paul Verhoef, Head of the Galileo Unit of the European Commission Renu Karnad, President, International Union for Housing Finance		Ashraf Ghani, UN Commission for Legal Empowerment of the Poor Stig Jönsson, Director General of National Land Survey, Sweden Klaus Deininger, Lead Economist DCERG, The World Bank Dave Zilkoski, Director of the US/NOAA National Geodetic Survey


	Anna Tibaijuka	Andreas Carlgren