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Commission 7 News Brief Quarter 4 2024
Commission 7 News Brief Quarter 3 2024 Q3 2024 news brief with highlights from our Annual Meeting, in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia in September 2024 – and updates from all our Working Groups. Report from FIG Working Week 2024 and Newsletter Q2 2024
Commission 7 at FIG Working Week 2024
The FIG Working Week 2024 was held from 19-24 May in Accra, Ghana. During the conference, Commission 7 had organised severaly sessions in the tehcnical programme and conducted its annual meeting. Additionally, the progress of all commissions was presented at the General Assembly. >
Annual report to General Assembly Commission 7 Annual Meeting 202424-26 September 2024 in Malaysia The Commission 7 meeting will be held jointly with Commission 5, LADM, STDM Workshops and Geoinformation Week 2024 under the main title: Geospatial Innovation for Sustainable Rural and Urban Development. Read more 11th International FIG Workshop on the Land Administration Domain Model / 3D Land Administration11-13 October in Gävle, Sweden Commission 7 Annual Meeting 20232-4 October 2023 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. Commission 7 at FIG Working Week 2023FIG Working Week 2023 took place
28 May - 1 june 2023 in Orlando, Florida. Commission 7 Annual meeting - 2022FIG Commission 7 held its 2022 Annual Meeting on 26 and 27 October in Sevilla, Spain. There were participants both onsite as well as online. Find the programme and proceedings here Read the report of the meeting here
Commission 7 at FIG Congress 2022 in Warsaw, PolandOctober 2022 The Congress took place11-15 September 2022 in Warsaw, Poland. Commission 1 held its annual meeting with outset in their prepared Report and Agenda. Commission 7 was also involved in sessions covering within the theme of Volunteering for the future Geospatial excellence for a better living
To read more about Congress, the full report FIG Congress 2022 is available.
Commission 7 Annual Meeting26-29 September 2022 in Sevilla, Spain The annual meeting is held in conjunction with Topcart2022.
Programme:Wednesday - Commission 7 meeting and country reports follow by welcome drinks. Registration fee: 120 EUR. Please register here:
https://coigt.idloom.events/topcart2022 Commision 7 Annual meeting - 2021September 2021
Commission 7, Chair ElectAugust 2021
In the report from the General Assemble, you can also access the video presentation of the Candidate, Mr. Rohan Bennett. Commission 7 at FIG e-Working Week 2021August 2021 The Working Week took place online 20-25 June 2021. Commission 7 held its annual meeting with outset in their prepared Report and Agenda.
Commission 7 was also involved in several sessions covering Commission 7 areas within the theme of Smart Surveyors for Land and Water Management.
To read more about Working Week 2021, the full report FIG e-Working Week 2021 is available. Article: Key Global and Technology Drivers Impacting SurveyingFebruary 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 OctoberThe theme of the conference is: Building community resilience: Urban-rural land linkages and strategies to deal with COVID-19During 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:
For more information and to register please visit the Conference website FIG Commission 7 Newsletter – 2nd quarter 2020In this newsletter
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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. |
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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
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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
24-28 September 2018, Bergen, Norway
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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.
Looking forward to meeting all of you in Bergen!
For more information, please visit: Web site
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
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.
For more information, please visit http://fig717.net/en/home-2/
Commission 7 had its annual meeting during the FIG Working Week 2017 in Helsinki, Finland 29 May - 2 June 2017
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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)
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
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
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.
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!
More information about registration, call for papers see www.workshopnepal2015.com.np
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Commission 7 had its annual meeting during the FIG
Working Week 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria, 17-21 May 2015.
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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
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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 |
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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. |
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Commission 7 had its annual meeting during the FIG Working Week 2013 in Abuja, Nigeria, 6-10 May 2013. Commission 7 report
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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.
Web site: http://fig2013-c7.jimdo.com/
Commission 7 Newsletter April 2013:
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).
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 Newsletter August 2012:
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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.
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- Newsletter January 2011 (English, French and Spanish)
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/
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The Proceedings of the International FIG
Symposium "Cadastre 2.0" are obtainable. |
- Commission 7 Annual Report for the General Assembly (pdf) - End of term report 2007-2010
- Commission 7 Work Plan 2011-2014 (pdf)
- Report of the FIG General Assembly 2011
- Report of the FIG Working Week
- Picture Gallery
- Proceedings
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.
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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
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Theme of the Workshop is "Information and Land Management. A Decade after the Millennium".
Web site: www.conference.kig-bg.org
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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.
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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. |
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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. Read more... |
FIG Commission 9 together with Commissions 7 and 8 has made a questionnaire on Good practices for compulsory purchase and takings.
Questionnaire: http://digiumenterprise.com/answer/?sid=352485&chk=8SYA8HNT
Proceedings of the FIG/FAO/CNG Seminar on State and Public Land Management
Proceedings of FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting and Open Symposium on Environment and Land Administration "Big Works for the Defense of the Territory"
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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/
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programme. Commission 7 Annual Meeting was organised in
Verona 11-15 September 2008,
programme of the annual meeting and
proceedings.
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Commission 7 Annual Meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden during the
FIG Working Week 2008, 14-19 June 2008, web site of the conference:
www.fig.net/fig2008.
Proceedings and technical sessions
Commission 7 Annual Report for the General Assembly as a .pdf-file.
Workshop on Land Administration for Sustainable Development, Québec, Canada,October 2007
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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.
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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.
Read a full report of the Annual Meeting.
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
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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. Inquiries for hard copies, please contact Ms. Pauline van Elsland, email: pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl |
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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.
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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. |
This Symposium was organised by the Department of Land & Survey in Jordan in collaboration with the Arab Union of Surveyors and FIG Commission 7
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For a hard copy of the proceedings, you can contact Pauline van Elsland, email: pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl |
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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.
Conference web site: www.fig.net/cairo
Commission 7 Chairperson's report to the 28th General Assembly in Cairo, Egypt 16-21 April 2005
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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)
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Workshop on Standardization in the Cadastral Domain - Bamberg, Germany, 9-10 December 2004Workshop on Standardization on the Cadastral Domain was organised by COST Action G9 and FIG Commission 7 in Bamberg, Germany 9-10 December 2004.
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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.
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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:
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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) |
Symposium
on Land Administration in Post Conflict Areas
- European UN-Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 29-30 April 2004
- Proceedings of Commission 7 Symposium on Land Administration in Post Conflict Areas, please contact Pauline van Elsland, email: pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl
- Background of the Symposium
- Report of the Symposium
- Programme and Proceedings
- Programme in .pdf-format
- Picture Gallery 1
- Picture Gallery 2
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
Contact: email: pauline.vanelsland@kadaster.nl
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
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.
International Federation of Surveyors FIG Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land Management organizes with support from
and sponsored by:
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.
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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 supported by FAO and included contributions from representatives of the World Bank, FAO and many senior academics, bureaucrats and practitioners.
- Land Redistribution in Southern Africa - Report of the FIG Commission 7 Symposium, Pretoria, South Africa, 6-7 November 2002
- Final Programme for the Symposium on Land Redistribution in Southern Africa
- Participant list of the Symposium on Land redistribution in Southern Africa
- Picture Gallery from the Annual Meeting and Symposium
- Minutes of Commission 7 Annual Meeting in Pretoria, November 4-8, 2002
- Proceedings of the Symposium on Land Redistribution in Southern Africa
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.
