International Federation of Surveyors Conference (FIG) 2009
19-22 October 2009 - Hanoi, Vietnam
International Federation of Surveyors conference The International Federation of Surveyors conference is to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam in October 2009. The theme of the conference is "Spatial Data Serving People" with sub-theme: "Land Governance and the Environment - Building the Capacity".
Vietnam has developed its own National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) based on digital topographic data base at the scale 1/50,000 and cadastral data base covering the whole country, including the National Permanent PS network and SPOT5 receiving station. The NSDI of Viet Nam has been effectively serving to control natural resources exploitation, protection of the environment and forecasting natural disasters and potential consequences of climate changes. Moreover, the NSDI of Viet Nam plays a vital role in bridging the information gap between the Government and its citizens, pushing for administrative reform and protecting people's land rights.
Each of the three days of the technical conference has a specific theme and keynote presentations:
- Land Administration
- Land administration in Vietnam
- World Bank projects in the South East Asia region
- Land acquisition in developing economies
- SDI and the Environment
- SDI developments in Vietnam
- Climate change and disaster risk management
- Decentralisation and environmental management
- Capacity Building
- Professional standards and ethics
- Surveying education in Vietnam and SEA region
- Promoting public private partnership
The concept of the regional conference will follow the concept of previous FIG regional conferences that has proved to be successful. The conference will last for four days: three days for technical sessions and one day to a joint technical visit to Ha Long Bay with a cruise in this magnificent nature heritage.
For more information and to apply to attend go to the media release on FIG09 and bookmark the FIG09 website.
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