Report from FIG Working Week 2024 and Newsletter
Q2 2024
Q3
2024 news brief with highlights from our Annual Meeting, in
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia in September – and updates from all
our Working Groups.
Q2
2024 news brief (now in slide-deck format!), including i)
our report from the FIG 2024 WW in Ghana, ii) updates on the
planned C7 Annual Meeting (Malaysia) and FIG Regional Conference
(Nepal); and iii) updates from all C7 Working Groups.
A more detailed
update from WG7.5 (Women’s Access to Land). With thanks to
Marisa Balas.
Commission 7 Annual Meeting
24-26 September 2024
The Commission 7 meeting will be held jointly
with Commission 5, LADM, STDM Workshops and
Geoinformation Week 2024 in Malaysia under the main
title: Geospatial Innovation for Sustainable Rural
and Urban Development
The joint FIG Commission 7 and 2
annual meeting will take place in Deventer, the
Netherlands. whether you are an official FIG C7
delegate of a Member Association, FIG C7 Working
Group participant, a land sector expert (technical,
legal, social, economic), or just have a keen
interest in getting involved with developments in
cadastres and land management globally, be sure to
get along. Submit your abstract now and register
FIG Working Week 2023 took place
28 May - 1 june 2023 in Orlando, Florida.
Commission 7 had organised many sessions in the
tehcnical programme and held its annual meeting
during the conference days. At the General Assembly
the Work plans of all commissions were presented
The annual meeting is held in
conjunction with Topcart2022.
Programme:Wednesday - Commission 7 meeting and country reports follow by welcome drinks.
Thursday to Friday technical programme of Topcart2022 as well as technical tours. Saturday - Technical visit to 8 wonders of Sevilla
FIG Commission 7 held its 2021 Annual Meeting on 23rd September.
For the second year running the meeting was a fully online activity
with 70 participants logging in from around the globe.
Read the full news item
here, where you will also find agenda, all
presentations and watch a full recording of the
meeting.
The General Assembly elected Mr.
Rohan Bennett from Australia/Netherlands,
SSSI/GIN, as the Chair Elect of Commission 7, the elected
Chair Elect term as the Chair of the Commission will be
initiated at the FIG Congress 2022 for the period 2023-2026.
Article: Key Global and Technology Drivers Impacting Surveying
February 2021
The article was published in GIM International. As the FIG commission chairs
are near the halfway point in their
terms, they reflect on the global and technological drivers
influencing their work. This article describes the breadth of work
across the FIG commissions as well as the common areas. The
discussion is also informed by global reports such as the UN-GGIM’s
Future Trends in Geospatial Information Management and the RICS
Futures Report 2020.
Enjoy the article
FIG Commission 7 Annuel Meeting - 20-22 October
The theme of the conference is:
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 will presents 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 are:
What are key principles all land projects should follow to
ensure synergies independenly 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 surveyig
profession to suport 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?
For more information and to register please visit the
Conference
website
GLTN urban-rural land linkage project consultation
2020 virtual/online Commission 7 Annual meeting
I am pleased to announce that FIG Commission 7 Annual
meeting will be held the week starting 20th October 2020.
The theme of the conference is: Urban and rural
resilience: learning to adjust to new land challenges during
and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Our annual meeting will be:
Multi-time zone with conferences, workshops to
run in appropriate time zones for all regions in the
world
Multi-language: We will be offering conferences in
English, Spanish and French
In collaboration with key commission partners
Consultation for our current key commission projects
in urban-rural land linkages and land PPPs principles
Volunteers needed! If you are interested in being part of
the organizing committee for your region/country/language or
you have an idea to make this event great, please drop us a
line at
figcommission7@fig.net
The State of our Industry: article and survey
With support from Louise Friis-Hansen at the Head Office
and other colleagues, I published an
article in Geoconnexion about the challenges our
geospatial and surveying industry is facing during the
pandemic. At the Commission, we would like to understand
better the impact in each of you so we can help everyone’s
decision-making and the advocacy work we do at FIG.
GLTN urban-rural land linkage project consultation
Since the start of the year, FIG Commission 7 has been
coordinating the development of the GLTN Urban-rural land
linkage framework. I am pleased to inform that Dr Eugene
Chigbu (lead technical consultant of the project) has
completed a full draft of the Framework ready for
consultation. I will be organising one-on-one conversations
and workshops in French, Spanish and English to hear your
comments and ideas to improve the framework.
The first consultation will be held on
online and on Friday the 7th of August at 12m (noon) Central
European Summer time GMT+2 as part of the activities of the
Urban 7.4 Working Group
(urban challenges), which both Commission 8 and 9 are
part of it.
If you would like to attend this consultation
and received a copy of the initial draft, please send us a
email at
figcommission7@fig.net
Please stay safe and in contact with your surveying colleagues.
Today more than ever we need solidarity among ourselves.
Regards, Daniel Paez, PhD
Chair FIG Commission 7
Cancellation of FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 2020 4>
The event should have taken place in Bern, Switzerland, but is
unfortunately cancelled due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Conscious of the important role of geospatial technologies in
supporting national responses to the COVID19 pandemic, UNGGIM
Academic Network, FIG Commission 7, the University of Melbourne
and ESRI Colombia, have joint efforts to produce a rapid
technical paper on COVID-19 geospatial mobile
applications. This paper will include a description of selected
mobile applications across the world and categorization of
them.
During the conference days a range of articles
highlighting the hot-topics, the ground breaking
research, and the hidden gems in the proceedings was
published.
Article: Has your world changed in the last four weeks? It
has for Commission 7 also, and we are adjusting
quickly to the new needs of our world. Commission 7
is about the relationship between land and people,
and how surveyors and other professions support
nations to administer their land resources.
During this pandemic, every day the COVID19 virus
is changing how we relate to our land from border
closures to restrictions to citizens to be confined
into private parcels. The current pandemic has shown
how important it is to have a land inventory (the
cadastre), and to be able to understand and change
it (hopefully temporally) un terms of rights, restrictions and responsibilities of owners and
occupiers. Read the article.
It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we
announce the cancellation of this year’s FIG Working
Week in Amsterdam due 10-14 May.
This is not a decision we have taken lightly and there are two
overriding concerns that have caused us to make this decision at this
time.
First, the Dutch Government announced new measurements to control the
COVID-19 outbreak. In the Netherlands all gatherings are prohibited until
1 June.
Second, our primary concern is always the wellbeing of you, and we
would not take on the responsibility, during these times, to bring so many
surveyors from all over the world together.
The theme Smart Surveyors for Land and
Water Management is both relevant in a
world where drinking water is a scarce resource,
waste water needs to be recycled rather than seen as
waste, where the sea needs to be better mapped and
managed, where land resources need to be protected
against sea-level rise, and where land-based fresh
water habitats are threatened.
Despite the unfortunate cancellation of the WBG Land and
Poverty conference, we have discovered that some of you may
still be travelling to DC or may be available during the week
when the conference was going to be held.
To connect those that are in Washington DC during that
week, FIG Commission 7 and UNGGIM Academic Network are
organizing a land networking event on the 18th of March at 7 pm
in Washington. The Venues is Vapiano restaurant on M street
(for full information, menu and pricing please visit us.vapiano.com).
This networking event will be a great opportunity to
explore your particular interest in the land sector and to learn
more about all our activities at the FIG Commission 7 and UNGGIM
Academic Network.
The Working Week took place in Hanoi, Vietnam
22-26 April 2019. Commission 7 held its yearly meeting and was
involved in several sessions covering the commission 7 areas.
FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 2018 and International Seminar
24 - 28 September 2018, Bergen, Norway
Around 100 participants from all over the world followed the
invitation to join the FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and the
international Seminar organized by the Norwegian FIG member
association TEKNA in Bergen, Norway.
Dear Delegates, Correspondents and friends of FIG Commission
7!
At the end of this year which is as well the closing of my
term of office as Chair of FIG Commission 7 I will take the
opportunity to review about the past 4 years and to extend my
sincere thanks to all of you.One of the main events on the
agenda of Commission 7 are the Annual Meetings and international
Conferences/Workshops linked to these. Organising such events is
sometimes challenging for facing constraints from budget or from
personal resources and therefore requests an extraordinary
personal engagement of the local organiser. Commission 7 Annual
Meetings in the past term were very successful at providing
interesting technical programmes and were well attended by an
international or/and regional audience. The outreach was far
beyond the Commission 7 community.
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IMPULS Workshop 6 December 2018
The well attended national IMPULS project workshop on „SDI
Raising awareness – benefits from IMPULSE Project to SDI FBiH
and further development“organized by the Federal Administration
for Geodetic and Property Legal Affairs was held in Sarajevo on
5 and 6 December 2018 in the premises of the Hotel Holiday. FIG
was represented by Chair of Commission 7 Ms. Gerda Schennach who
delivered greetings from FIG President Ms. Chryssy Potsiou and
Vice-Chair of the Commission Mr. Gyula Iván (HU).
The Director of the Federal Administration for Geodetic and
Real Property Affairs, Mr. Željko Obradović opened the workshop
and welcomed all participants, and pointed out the importance of
sharing data. Mr. Tomislav Ciceli presented the IMPULSE project
and its benefits for the SDI FBiH, Mrs. Slobodanka Ključanin
presented Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Federation of BiH
and results achieved so far.
FIG Commission 7 presentations were about Win-Win solutions
for national and international activities on Cadastre & Land
Management by the INSPIRE Directive and about experiences of the
implementation of INSPIRE theme Cadastral parcels in Hungary.
Mr. Vladimir Krupa, member of the CLGE Executive Board
highlighted in his speech the importance of authoritative data
and public appointed professionals and the benefits from civil
servants/private surveyors models in cadastre.
The second part of the workshop emphasised on the Register of
subjects, Register of data sources and Metadata editor which was
presented by Mr. Nikola Cvjetković and Mrs. Amela Huković. Mr.
Nedim Hadžiosmanović presented the complexity of the
establishment of a national SDI and the role of the
municipalities being in charge of cadastre in its
implementation.
The Workshop was concluded by a discussion and summary of
findings for further steps to be taken. More
details
Chair of FIG Commission 7, Mrs. Gerda Schennach, followed the
kind invitation offered by Director Mr. Željko Obradović to
visit the Federal Administration for Geodetic and Real Property
Affairs on 6 December 2018. The impressive achievements on the
updating of cadastre and land registration and implementation of
e-government procedures for continuous maintenance of the
information were discussed. It was agreed to further develop the
exchange of knowledge and information on professional aspects in
establishing a NSDI. More
details
Commission 7 2018 Annual Meeting and
International Seminar - Invitation
It is a great pleasure to invite you to the FIG Commission 7
Annual Meeting 2018 and International Seminar being held at the
Hotel Zander K, Zander Kaaes gate 7, 5015 Bergen, Norge, Europe.
The venue for the Annual meeting 2018 has been decided as on
the excellent air links to many other countries inside and
outside Europe at once the colorful Norwegian city of Bergen
offers many cultural highlights and is also considered a gateway
to majestic fjords. Norway, the country of northern Europe,
occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. Nearly
half of the population lives in the extreme south, in the region
around Oslo, the capital. About two-thirds of Norway is
mountainous, and of its much articulated shoreline carved by
deep glacier fjords are about 50,000 islands.
Accompanying persons are very much welcome to attend the
social events and excursions.
Thanks to the organizing committees Tekna and Geoforum under
chairmanship of Mr. Leiv Bjarte Mjøs, for providing the
opportunity to meet to Norway.
Dear Commission 7 Delegates, Correspondents and friends!
Only few days are left in 2017 and this is a good reason to
review the year and to have a look ahead to 2018.
Looking back to the two main events of Commission 7, I want to
express a special thank to our colleagues in Finland for their
continuous support in organising the Commission 7 events in the
frame of the FIG WW in Helsinki and to our Colombian colleagues,
Daniel Paez from the University de los Andes in Bogota and his
team of young surveyor and students, who organised an excellent
and very well attended Annual Meeting and Conference in
Cartagena. For the first time we had the possibility to join the
events in a teleconference service, which was even more helpful
as Daniel Steudler and myself got stranded in Frankfurt airport
being booked on one of the 250 flights which had been cancelled
that day due to bad weather conditions. These are the challenges
– hurricanes, wizards, snow and other natural hazards make it
sometimes difficult to make use of all facilities to get to all
places around the globe! Thanks to the young team who made
attendance happen in this situation.
You will find all presentations of both events at
fig and at
http://fig717.net/en/home-2/. A more detailed report will be
circulated at the beginning of the next year.
The highlight of 2018 will be the FIG Congress in Istanbul to
be held on 6-11 May 2018. Registration is already open and up to
now 450 papers have been applied for, 150 of them directly
connected to Commission 7 topics – again there will be the need
to run a considerable number of Technical Sessions in parallel.
Besides there will be among others a special half-day side event
on cadastre of the Turkish talking countries, from where we
expect around 100 persons to attend. A more detailed agenda for
the Commission 7 technical and social events will be circulated
in a few weeks and may be found on
https://www.fig.net/fig2018.
The Annual Meeting of Commission 7 including an international
Workshop will be held in autumn 2018 most likely from 24-28
September 2018 in Bergen/Norway. Thanks to our Delegate Leiv
Bjarte Mjøs who is committed to organize the event and who has
already made some arrangements to make sure that the costs will
stay at our average level of previous years. All details about
the Annual Meeting and other events co-organised by Commission 7
are continuously updated at
www.fig.net: Please make sure that any event which is
attended by FIG Commission 7 members gets published on this
website by sending a note to me.
Finally, I want to thank all of you for your participation in
and as FIG Commission 7 representatives and for activities taken
for FIG Commission 7. Your contribution in conferences,
workshops, all kind of publications and many other initiatives
is a most valuable contribution to spread the spirit of FIG and
especially for us in Commission 7 to provide the society with a
solid fundament for secure and fair land tenure and land
registration in all countries all over the world for the benefit
for society and land owners. Especially in those times of all
kind of challenges on land, expertise which is built on
professional skills and on independent assessment of the
situation, is of high relevance for a peaceful coexistence.
I wish all delegates, correspondents and friends of Commission 7
a peaceful Season and a happy New Year
Looking forward to meeting all of you in 2018.
Gerda Schennach
Commission 7 2017 Annual Meeting and Conference - Invitation
The FIG Commission 7 Annual Conference and Meeting is taking
place between 4 – 8 December 2017 in Cartagena, Colombia.
This event will also host a conference focused on Cadastre for
emergencies and disasters: Challenges and opportunities for
islands and coastlines.
The FIG Commission 7 Annual Conference is the meeting par
excellence that brings together surveyors from around the world
so they can share and learn about the latest developments in
cadastre and land management as well as contributing experience
and knowledge in terms of their environments and individual
activities. It is a one-off opportunity for participants from
all over the world –both professional members of the FIG
Commission 7 and interested members of the public– to share
their points of view.
Those who participate in the conference will be able to go to
a gala dinner and visit the important tourist sights in
Cartagena. You can also try traditional dishes from the
Colombian Caribbean region and take a walk on the beautiful
beaches. Cartagena de Indias is located on Colombia’s north
coast and it has beaches that are renowned for their beauty and
tranquillity. It also hosts architectural gems such as the
citadels that were built in the Colonial Period that have now
been restored. In 1984 the city was declared an UNESCO world
heritage site, which made it one of the most-visited Colombian
and Latin American cities.
Commission chairs 2015-2018 at their meeting during the FIG
Working Week, 29 May-2 June in Helsinki, Finland: Remy Boudon(comm. 6) Volker
Schwieger (comm. 5), See Lian ONG (comm. 10), Angela Etuonovbe
(comm. 4), Steven Nystrom (comm. 9), Kwame Tenadu (comm. 8),
Enrico Rispoli (comm. 3), Gerda Schennach (comm. 7), Fahria Masum(comm. 2), Brian J.
Coutts (comm. 1)
Dear Commission 7 Delegates, Correspondents and friends!
At the end of this year, I want to thank all of you for your
support for and for your contributions to the work of FIG
Commission 7 in order to raise awareness on land rights, to
secure or/and improve rights on land and to support
interest groups wherever it is necessary. Establishing contacts
and co-operating with professionals in all regions all over the
globe will bring us forward in implementing tools which are
appropriate to meet these goals.
2016 will continue with as many events as in 2015, where
Commission 7 representatives will play key roles!
The most important internal events to meet within the FIG
community in 2016 are already on the agenda FIG Working Week Christchurch, New Zealand, 2-6 May 2016, under the theme
“Recovery from Disaster”, is already under final arrangements
for the technical programme. More informtion and registration at
www.fig.net/fig2016/index.htm Don't miss to register before 8 February 2016 in order to
get the discount of 90 EUR off the standard registration fee.
The Commission 7 Annual Meeting including an international
Seminar will be held in Coimbra, Portugal, 23-28 Oct 2016.
Our Portuguese colleagues have already started with preparations
for these events. A first announcement including information on
travelling, accommodation and technical programme will be sent
out in spring.
I do hope to welcome as many partners of the Commission 7
community as possible in both events!
For the moment, please take my best wishes for a Merry Christmas
and a happy New Year!
Looking forward to working for a successful 2016.
Gerda Schennach
Invitation: Workshop on Crowdsourcing of Land Information - Joint FIG
Commission 7 and 3 meeting
It is a great pleasure to invite you to
this year Annual Meeting of Commission 7, which will be
held on 16-20 November 2015 in Malta,
Europe. The Annual Meeting will be linked to an
International Workshop on Crowdsourcing of Land Information,
co-organised by FIG Commission 3 and Commission 7.
The most interesting theme of the Workshop
and high-level presentations linking subjects from the
perspectives of both Commissions involved as well as the
location in the very centre of the Mediterranean Basin with
surrounding countries representing a big variety of professional
background lets expect a vibrant event.
The planning for the sessions will be twofold – while Commission
3 has launched a call for peer reviewed papers, Commission 7
stays as before with invited speakers and non-peer reviewed
papers for the Annual Meeting. Delegates are welcome to submit
their proposals to
figcom7@gmail.com. If you wish to apply for a
peer-reviewed paper, please go to the website of Commission3, if
the subject is within the scope of the call.
A special thank to the director of the
organising committee, well known FIG colleague Randolph
Camilleri, who has put all his efforts to arrange for the
meeting at an excellent venue in Malta and to provide an
attractive programme for accompanying persons and a social
programme for the Delegates. And thanks to Robin McLaren, Chair
of WG 7.3 for strongly supporting for arranging for the
Technical Sessions of Com7.
International FIG Workshop on "The Role of Land
Professionals and SDI in Disaster Risk Reduction: In the Context
of Post 2015 Nepal Earthquake
The second big FIG Commission 7 event during this autumn is
the International FIG Workshop on "The Role of Land
Professionals and SDI in Disaster Risk Reduction: In the Context
of Post 2015 Nepal Earthquake” on 25-27 November 2015
in Kathmandu/Nepal jointly organised by FIG Commission 2,
Commission 7, ISPRS Working Group IV/4 together with the Nepal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors (NICS) and the Nepal Remote
Sensing and Photogrammetric Society (NRSPS).
This Workshop addresses a highly relevant topic in the wider
region and will be a pilot for the 2016 Working Week in New
Zealand, which will focus on recovery from disaster. WG 7.2 is
strongly engaged into this event. Thanks to our colleagues in
Nepal for organising this event under challenging conditions at
the early stage and for taking up this topic!
FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and GeoConference 2014
Réunion annuelle de la Commission 7 de la FIG et GéoCongrés 2014 7-11 October 2014, Québec, Canada
The FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and GeoConference 2014 will take
place 7-11 October, Qu?ec, Canada.
R?nion annuelle de la Commission 7 de la FIG et G?Congr? 2014
FIG Commission 7 Annual meeting 2013, "Land Policies
and Land Governance International Symposium and Workshop", Yaounde,
Cameroon, 21 Oct. - 25 Oct. 2013
Commission 7 Annual meeting in Yaound? Cameroon
A series of events was held in the Djeuga
Palace hotel in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon in October
2013:
- Annual Meeting of FIG Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land
Management
- General Assembly of the FGF ? the F??ation des G?m?res
Francophones
- Training Workshop in Land Administration
- International Symposium on Land Policies and Land Governance
LADM2013: 5th FIG International Land Administration
Domain Model Workshop was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 24-25
September 2013
LADM audience focussed
Over 40 participants attended the workshop
and a total of 25 peer reviewed papers were presented,
covering a range of themes, including: the industry
perspective on LADM; the linkage between LADM and
information infrastructures; refined LADM modeling, 3D
representations and formalizing LADM semantics; specific
LADM country profiles; and implementation aspects.
FIG Commission 7 Annual meeting 2013 and International
Symposium, Yaound?Cameroon, 21-25 October 2013
Land Policies and Land Governance International Symposium and
Workshop and Commission 7 Annual Meeting. Jointly organized by the
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), the F??ation des
g?m?res francophones (FGF) and the Ordre des g?m?res du Cameroun.
FIG Commission 7 Annual meeting 2012 and International
Symposium, San Luis, Argentina, 30 November to 4 December 2012
The FIG Commission 7 Annual meeting 2012 and International Symposium
will take place in San Luis, Argentina, from 30 November to 4 December
2012. These events will follow the FIG Regional Conference in Uruguay.
The theme of the symposium will be Land Governance in South America in
an international perspective. These events are co-organized by the
Consejo Federal de Catastro de Argentina (CFC) and the Federaci?
Argentina del Agrimensores (FADA).
International FIG workshop on the Land Administration
Domain Model (LADM2013)
The Land Administration Domain Model, LADM passed on the 1st of
November 2012 unanimously the final vote towards becoming an
international standard, ISO 19152 and was formally published by ISO on
1ste of December 2012. It will stimulate the development of software
applications and will accelerate the implementation of proper land
administration systems that will support sustainable development.
The 5th International LADM Workshop will be held in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, 24 - 25 September, 2013 in conjunction with ISG2013.
Deadline for the submission of extended abstracts is 31 May 2013.
The International Seminar on State Land Management in Transitional
Countries: Issues and Ways Forward took place 20-21 September
2012 in Budapest, Hungary at the Ministry of Rural Development. The
international seminar was organised by FIG Commission 7 and FAO.
Commission 7 at the FIG Working Week 2012 in Rome,
Italy, 6-10 May 2012
Gerda Schennach
Commission 7 had its annual meeting during the
FIG Working Week 2012 in Rome, Italy, 6-10 May 2012. The General
Assembly elected Ms.
Gerda Schennach from Austria as the Chair Elect of
Commission 7 for 2013-2014.
23-25 April 2012, Washington D.C., USA.
Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, organised by The World
Bank. Call for paper is opened. Deadline 31 October 2011
Web site and call for paper:
http://www.landandpoverty.com/
FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 2011and International
Symposium „Cadastre 2.0“
25 September - 1 October 2011, Grillhof, Innsbruck, Austria
The Proceedings of the International FIG
Symposium "Cadastre 2.0" are obtainable.
Price € 25,-- incl. tax and postage. Please order it
here
Cadastral Template - A Worldwide Comparison of Cadastral
Systems
The "Cadastral Template" has been developed by a
research group at the Department of Geomatics of the University of
Melbourne. It consists of cadastral country reports based on a
jointly developed PCGIAP/FIG template.
FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and International Open
Symposium, 5-10 September, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
András Osskó and Daniel Roberge
FIG Commission 7 in cooperation with the Czech Union of
Surveyors and Cartographers organized its Annual Meeting between
5 and 11 September 2010 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Commission 7 has had a 20 year tradition organizing annual
meetings each year, separately from major FIG events, based on
the consensus of Commission 7 delegates. The Annual Meeting 2010
was the last of a four year period chaired by Mr. András Osskó,
Hungary. There was a record number of participation in the
Annual Meeting 2010 showing the importance of land
administration matters world wide. 57 delegates attended this
annual meeting from 32 countries representing all of the
continents.
The proceedings will be available soon.
Commission 7 at the FIG Congress 2010 in Sydney,
Australia, 11-16 April 2010
Daniel Roberge
Commission 7 had its meeting during the FIG
Congress 2010 in Sydney, Australia, 11-16 April 2010. The
General Assembly appointed Mr. Daniel Roberge from Canada
as the Chair of Commission 7 for 2011-2014.
FAO Land Tenure Group and FIG Commission 7 WG 7.3 have
launched a publication “FLOSS
in Cadastre and Land Registration - Opportunities and Risks”.
Land administration and cadastral systems in the 21st century
depend on the use of information technology (IT) tools. The
application of these tools affects very much the systems’
efficiency and costs. While commercial softwares have helped to
establish the infrastructures of today and continue to do so,
open-source alternatives, which have achieved considerable
significance in many IT fields, have grown to provide credible
alternatives for consideration. For various reasons, however,
they are not often used in land administration and cadastre,
even when their potential is increasingly recognised. This
booklet aims to shed light on this potential, exploring the
advantages, and disadvantages of open source solutions within
the context of cadastre and land registration. The publication
is the result of four years of cooperation between FAO and FIG
WG 7.3.
This year's FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting was
held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia just before the Regional
Conference. More than 40 delegates from 22 countries
participated the meeting. At the meeting András Osskó,
Chair of the Commission, and Commission 7 working group chairs
gave reports on the Commission 7 activities. The One-day Open
Symposium on „Progressing Towards ubiquitous Cadastre”
was a successful event: Besides of international delegates more
than 200 professionals attended from Malaysia and and
neighbouring countries.
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András Osskó (left),
Domenico Romanelli (President of the Provincial College of
Surveyors of Verona), Fausto Savoldi (CNGeGL President)
and
Stig Enemark (FIG President).
Seminar on State and Public Land Management was
organised in Verona, Italy, September 9-10, 2008, just before
the FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting. The seminar was 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 was 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 aimed to 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. Web site:
www.collegio.geometri.vr.it/seminar/
and
programme. Commission 7 Annual Meeting was organised in
Verona 11-15 September 2008,
programme of the annual meeting and
proceedings.
FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 2007 and Symposium on
“Good Practice in Cadastre and Land Registry” in Seoul, Republic of
Korea, 19 - 23 May 2007 -
Proceedings
FIG Working Week 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June
2008
Joint FIG Commissions 4 and 7 Working Group 4.3 has been active
in the areas of Coastal Zone Management, Marine Cadastre and Marine
Governance since 2002. Result of this work is now published in the
FIG Publication series as publication no. 36 "Administering
Marine Spaces: International Issues". The publication comprises
a number of papers that focus on issues related to the
administration of marine spaces from regional perspectives. Its
purpose is to stimulate further discussion and research in this most
important subject area. Whilst it is not possible to deal with all
issues, it does underscore the international importance of
administering marine spaces.
Hard copies will be available by the FIG Congress in Munich.
The FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 2006, was held from12 -16
May 2006 at the Kompas Hotel in Bled, Slovenia. Because of the big
FIG Conference in Munich 8-13 October 2006, the Commission decided
to hold only a short annual meeting. The Meeting was organised in
close co-operation with the Slovenian Association of Surveyors and
our Slovenian correspondent Mr. Roman Rener, the Geodetic
Institute of Slovenia and the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the
Republic of Slovenia.
In total 50 participants from 25 countries were welcomed by the
Commissions chair, Paul van der Molen. Amongst them Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro,
Portugal and Russia represented first time.
FIG Commissions 2, 3 and 7 held a Workshop on e-Governance, Knowledge
management and e-Learning in Budapest, Hungary, 27-29 April 2006.
Workshop web site www.fig.hu
Proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on Secure
Land Tenure: "New Legal Frameworks and Tools in Asia and the
Pacific" held at the United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP) Headquarters in
Bangkok, Thailand are now published as a hard copy.
Proceedings are also available on the web.
The meeting aimed
to discuss new legal frameworks for the improvement of land tenure
security and access to land related benefits, discuss new ideas
regarding tools needed to support the implementation of these new
legal frameworks, identify pro poor land administration approaches
for both urban and rural areas, discuss evolutionary approaches for
recording and mapping of land tenure forms, discuss possibilities to
improve existing land administration systems, learn from countries
that face these situations in the region, and to encourage decision
makers to pay adequate attention to the implementation aspects of
land policy.
Within the scope of the European COST Action G9 "Modelling
Real Property Transactions" and jointly with FIG Commission 7
Cadastre and Land Management, an international workshop on "Standardization
in the cadastral domain" was held in Bamberg, Germany on 9 and
10 December 2004. The workshop brought together an interesting mix
of representatives from different communities and disciplines
involved in the cadastral domain. These included legal specialists,
surveyors and ICT-specialists, and represented different
organizations (land registry and cadastral organizations,
standardization institutes, industry and academia)
This workshop was sponsored by: ITC, Kadaster,
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Technische Universiteit Delft. The
printing of these proceedings has been made possible by ESF-COST.
Proceedings are available
here.
For a hard copy of the Proceedings "Standardization in the
cadastral domain", please contact Pauline van Elsland, email:
pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl
(ISBN 87-90907-36-1)
International Conference on ‘Enhancing Land Registration
and Cadastre for Economic Growth in India’ was organized in conjunction
with Map India 2006 and co-organised by FIG Commission 7.
More the 50 experts from more then 20 countries
were invited to join the meeting held in the UN Conference Centre in
Bangkok. 22 papers on the subject were presented and discussed. The
meeting was organised by the FIG Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land
Management, The World Bank, UN-Habitat and the UN Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
Proceedings of a Symposium held by FIG Commission 7, about
Innovative Technology for Land Administration, held on 24 and 25
June 2005 at the University of Wisconsin, State Historical Society
in Madison - Wisconsin, USA are now available as a hard copy. This
symposium was organised and supported by the University of
Wisconsin, Madison - USA, Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency
(Kadaster) - The Netherlands, and the Institute for Geoinformation
Science and Earth Observation (ITC) - The Netherlands. This meeting
aimed to explore the strategic developments in technology likely to
impact on the way land administration organisations would operate in
the future (both at strategic and operational level). If you are
interested of a hard copy please contact Pauline van Elsland, email:
pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl
The Symposium on Innovative Technologies for Land Administration was
combined to the annual meeting of FIG Commission 7.
Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure: "New legal
frameworks and tools" - UN-Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya, 10 - 12 November
2004
Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure: "New legal
frameworks and tools" was held at the UN headquarters in Gigiri,
Nairobi, November 10-12, 2004. The meeting was organised by FIG
Commission 7, UN-HABITAT, the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya
(ISK) and the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy
(CASLE). It was supported by: Austrian Development Agency (ADA),
Austria; Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, The
Netherlands; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands; and
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH,
Germany.
For a hard copy of the Proceedings of an
Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure: "New Legal Frameworks
and Tools", please contact Pauline van Elsland, email:
pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl (ISBN 87-90907-39-6)
Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure: "New legal
frameworks and tools" - UN-Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya, 10 - 12 November
2004
Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure: "New
legal frameworks and tools" was held at the UN headquarters in
Gigiri, Nairobi, November 10-12, 2004. The meeting was organised by
FIG Commission 7, UN-HABITAT, the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya
(ISK) and the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy
(CASLE). It was supported by: Austrian Development Agency (ADA),
Austria; Cadastre, Land Registry and Mapping Agency, The
Netherlands; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands; and
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH,
Germany.
Commission
7 Annual Meeting 2004 was held at the Hôtel Coubertin in
Clermont-Ferrand, France, 8-14 September 2004. The programme and
proceedings with picture gallery can be downloaded from here:
In conjunction to the Annual Meeting a Symposium on Modern Land
Consolidation (Amenagement Foncier Moderne) was organised at the
Volvic Sport Complex in Clermont-Ferrand, 10-11 September
2004. Proceedings and pictures from this event are available at:
For proceedings of Commission 7 Symposium on Modern Land
Consolidation, please contact Pauline van Elsland, email:
pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl (ISBN 87-90907-38-8)
Proceedings of Commission 7 Symposium on Land Administration
in Post Conflict Areas, please contact Pauline van Elsland,
email:
pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl
Mr. András Osskó from Hungary was appointed by the General
Assembly in Athens as the Chair Elect of Commission 7 for 2004-2006. He
will be the chair of the commission 2006-2010. He is Deputy General
Director, Budapest Land Office in Hungary and Vice Chair of Commission 7
WG 7.1.
Proceedings
of Commission 7 Symposium "Strategies for Renewal of Information Systems
and Information Technology for Land Registry and Cadastre - ITC,
Netherlands, 8-9 May 2003
Current cadastral registrations use 2D parcels to register ownerships
rights, limited rights and public law restrictions on land. In most
cases this is sufficient to give clear information about the legal
status of real estate. But in cases of multiple use of space, with
stratified property rights in land, the traditional 2D cadastre is not,
or only in a limited way, able to reflect the spatial information about
those rights in the third dimension.
At the FIG-congress in April 2002 in Washington DC it was decided to
form a special working group in order to study the 3D issue of cadastral
registration in a fundamental way and on an international level.
This working group on 3D Cadastres is a sub-group of Working Group
7.3 (Advances in Modern Land Administration) of Commission 7 of the FIG.
The working group aims to publish a publication on guidelines to
establish 3D Cadastres, addressing legal, institutional and technical
issues. This “primer on 3D Cadastres” will be presented at the next
FIG-congress in 2006. You can find WG 7.3 web site at:
http://www.juritecture.net/3d.html
2nd Cadastral Congress and Commission 7 Annual Meeting
2003 - Krakow, Poland September 18-21, 2003
The 2nd Cadastral Congress organised by the Association of Polish
Surveyors was held in Krakow, Poland September 18-21, 2003. The title of
this conference was "Cadastre reliable for civil and social services".
The conference was organised in co-operation with FIG Commission 7 and
it will be linked to Commission 7 annual meeting 2003.
Symposium - IT Renewal Strategy for Land Registry and
Cadastre - International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth
Observation ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands, 8-9 May 2003
International Federation of Surveyors FIG Commission 7 on Cadastre
and Land Management organizes with support from
UN/ECE Working Party on Land Administration WPLA (Geneve,
Switzerland) (t.b.c);
Centre of Excellence for Real Rights and Land Markets, Budapest
(Hungary)(t.b.c.); and
Permanent Committee for the Cadastre in the EU (PCC)
and sponsored by:
Cadastre and Land Registry Agency the Netherlands and
International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth
Observation ITC (Netherlands)
and international symposium on IT Renewal Strategy for Land Registry
and Cadastre.
The symposium is targeted to chief information officers, information
managers, and related professionals involved in the field of land
registry and cadastre.
Commission 7 Annual Meeting and Seminar
on Land Redistribution in Southern Africa - Pretoria, South Africa,
November 4-9 2002
FIG Commission 7 organised
its annual meeting and a two day-Symposium
November 6-7, 2002 on the 'how to do' question of land
re-distribution in Southern Africa. The target group for this
Symposium were land managers, land surveyors
and related professions. The aim was to focus
on the operational and technical aspects of the land re-distribution
process. This question has been raised amongst others at the FIG
Washington congress by land surveyors from the region (April, 2002)
and also at the World Bank Workshop on Land
Issues in Kampala (April/May, 2002).
The Symposium was supportedby FAO and included
contributions from representatives of the World Bank,
FAO
and many senior academics, bureaucrats and practitioners.
FIG Commission 7 Working Group (1998-2002)
Reforming the Cadastre has published its report on
Benchmarking Cadastral Systems. The report compiled and edited
by Daniel Steudler and Jürg Kaufmann includes
contributions from 9 case studies from different countries. The
report was launched at the FIG General Assembly in Washington,
DC in April 2002. The report is available on the FIG web site as
.pdf-file
(429 KB). Hard copies can be asked from the
FIG Office.
Mr. András Osskó from Hungary was appointed by the General
Assembly in Athens as the Chair Elect of Commission 7 for 2004-2006. He
will be the chair of the commission 2006-2010. He is Deputy General
Director, Budapest Land Office in Hungary and Vice Chair of Commission 7
WG 7.1.
