FIG President Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel at the 5th Map
Asia 2006 in Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand, 29 August - 1 September 2006
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President Holger Magel making his keynote
address at the 5th Map Asia. |
Under the co-sponsorship of FIG and participation of many FIG member
countries the 5th Map Asia 2006 took place in the impressive Queen Sirikit
National Convention Center Bangkok, Thailand.
Organizer was FIG corporate member GIS Development in cooperation with
Thai Survey and GIS authorities. GIS Development President Dr. M. P.
Narayanan could welcome about 1,000 delegates from more than 30 mainly
Asian but also European, American countries and from Australia.
According to the overarching theme of the conference “GeoICT for Good
Governance” FIG President Magel was invited to give a keynote
speech in the first plenary session about “Geographic Information: Global
trends and perspectives for sustainable development”. He pointed out
that Geographic Information, GIS or GeoICT are no end in themselves but have
all to contribute to a better life and more sustainability. In his FIG
welcome address at the conference inauguration Magel underlined the need of
Good Governance as a means to reduce poverty and corruption and the
interrelationship between Good Governance and sound land information, land
policy, land administration / land management and land use as it is
postulated in the famous Bathurst Declaration.
During the conference President Magel held conversation with the Director
of Royal Thai Survey Department, Lt. Gen. Dr. Vichit Satharanond with
regard to a possible FIG affiliate membership of Thai Survey. He also
encouraged leading people of Survey of India to finally join FIG. It was
agreed that further discussions should be held at XXVI. INCA International
Congress, 23 – 26 November in New Delhi.
On invitation of Royal Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative and the
Bavarian development foundation Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, President Magel
visited some projects on land reform legalising informal settlement by
landless people in coastal zones of the Samutsakom province. In a meeting
with the Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Dr. Suthiporn
Chirapanda, Magel explained the competence and outcomes of FIG in the
fields of land policies, land reform, land administration and land
management and the advantages when Thailand becomes part of FIG community.
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The speakers-row during the inauguration ceremony: (from right ISPRS
Vice President John Trinder, Permanent Secretary of Ministry of
ICT, Kraisorn Pornsutee, Lt. Gen. Vichit Satharanond, FIG
President Holger Magel, President GIS Development Dr. M. P.
Narayanan, Prof. A. R. Dasgupta, GIS Development Advisor. |
FIG President with a strong delegation of Cambodian Ministry of Lands
and Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom Penh.
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Four key persons of Map Asia.
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The key note speakers of the plenary session Geographic Information
Trends: Global Perspectives (from left: Stewart Walker, BAE
System, John Trinder, A.R. Dasgupta, GIS Development President M. P.
Narayanan and FIG President H. Magel). |
Traditional Thai culture at the gala dinner. |
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The VIP-table at the gala dinner. |
President Magel meets
R. Matindas, Head of Bakosurtanal
Indonesia. |
President Magel with
Dato Dr. Abdul Kadir Taib, IPP of The
Institution of Surveyors Malaysia. |
CEO GIS Development
Sanjay Kumar in discussion with nice ladies. |
Rural handicraft work with coconut shells exported to Japan – a life
basis for rural women. |
President Magel embedded in powerful rural ladies producing orchids. |
The new home of the landless people after legalizing informal
settlement. |
President Magel with scientists and the Deputy Permanent Secretary of
Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Suthiporn Chirapanda
(1. from right). |
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