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     | FIG Member Associations |  
     |  Locate member associations from a map! |  National DelegatesEach member association has the right to nominate a delegate to each of 
	  the ten technical commissions.  The contact information of national delegates is updated by the FIG 
	  office. Any changes in contact information should be sent to the
	  FIG Office. Guideline to FIG members and their commission delegatesThe responsibilities and benefits of a national delegate are described 
	  in the 
	  Internal Rules. The purpose of these guidelines is to help ensure that the full benefit 
	  of FIG membership is passed down to all the individual members of 
	  associations or other organisations that are members of the Federation.
	   To ensure that individual members are kept fully informed of and have 
	  an opportunity to provide input to the work of FIG to the work of FIG and 
	  its commissions, FIG recommends that:  FIG members should support, or encourage others to support, the 
	  attendance of national commission delegates at FIG congresses and annual 
	  FIG working weeks (including annual commission delegate meetings and 
	  technical symposia), regional conferences and other symposia organised by 
	  the commissions FIG members and national commission delegates should 
	  consider establishing networks within their countries to communicate 
	  information and obtain feedback national commission delegates should be 
	  actively involved in commission activities, including responding to 
	  questionnaires and correspondence and identifying topics and authors of 
	  papers for commission symposia and FIG events FIG members should seek and 
	  encourage funding support to enable national commission delegates to 
	  attend FIG activities, including commission meetings national commission 
	  delegates should write at least one annual report for publication in a 
	  local newsletter or technical journal for dissemination to individual 
	  members of their association or organisation. FIG Commissions  |