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FIG International Congress 2010

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:58:00 +1300

Event Date: 11-16 April 2010

The overall theme of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) 2010 conference is "Facing the Challenges - Building the Capacity". This theme is particularly relevant to today's world. We are now faced with a global economic crisis of immense proportions, and living in a world undergoing dramatic climate change whose consequences are unknown and, thus far, unpredictable.

Never before has the need to Face the Challenge - the challenge to share ideas and resources; to cooperate between nations, between generations and between disciplines - been more urgent.

The four plenary sessions address the key issues from climate change, disaster risk management and good land governance to spatially enabled society and technological futures such as positioning infrastructures and information mobility. The technical programme will include a broad professional and scientific programme with 10 slots each offering from 8 up to 10 parallel sessions and workshop. With 4 poster session slots over four days the programme will offer up to 600 presentations.

For more information and registration see the FIG 2010 website.

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Spatially Enabled Government Asia 2010

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:20:00 +1300

Event Date: 27 - 28 April 2010

Spatially Enabled Government Asia 2010 will focus on the strategies for data management and data sharing. The conference will draw on local case studies from countries across the Asian region to showcase the different geospatial applications for a variety of governmental purposes, namely health, urban planning, transport, defence, environment and others.

Key topics for discussion at Spatially Enabled Government Asia will include:

Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure Project - India
GIS applications for Commonwealth Games - India
Bakosurtanal - Indonesia
SG Space - Singapore
SEMIS II - Thailand
Department of Survey and Mapping - Malaysia
PUB - Singapore
CRISP - Singapore
Taiwan Taichung City Council - Taiwan
National database - Vietnam

Spatially Enabled Government Asia will bring together representatives and decision makers from key government agencies especially those in:

mapping
GIS / geospatial / geographic / geography
spatial / space
surveying
imaging
cadastral / cartographic
information / IT data.

For more information and to register, please visit the Spatially Enabled Government Asia website.

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Official Statistics Forum 2010

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:25:00 +1200

Event Date: 24-25 March 2010

The theme of the 2010 Official Statistics Forum is on realising the value of official statistics, both in the sense of the awareness of that value, and the fulfilment of the potential of that value.

Every few years the users and producers of official statistics meet to share their knowledge and experience of the Official Statistics System (OSS), the wealth of information it represents, and to review the user needs for such statistics.

The forum is convened by Statistics New Zealand, the leaders of the OSS. It is an opportunity to see how well the OSS is meeting its goals by bringing together the people who produce the information with the end users of those resources.

Producers of official statistics are also able to share knowledge and innovations in the techniques used to collect, produce, store, and disseminate statistics.

Users of statistics can share the latest ideas on the way this information can be utilised, from analysis and manipulation to forecasting and modelling.

The importance of the role of official statistics is both emphasised and challenged in times of economic recession, so the timeliness of this forum is significant.

The event will feature a mix of keynotes speakers, panel discussions, and concurrent sessions.

Call for papers

Submission of papers is now open for the concurrent sessions by those working in any area of official statistics: production, analysis or representation. Skilled practitioners in the following areas are particularly encouraged to submit a paper:

Where to Next: Innovation, future directions and filling the gaps
Working Smarter: Collaboration, investment, reducing overlaps and doing more with existing resources
Real Life: Examples of the use, analysis or integration of statistics.

Presentations should be approximately 25 minutes in length.

Submissions close on 14 September. Please submit papers using the form available at the Official Statistics Forum webpage.

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