FIG President Stig Enemark attends the Geo-Siberia 2009 Conference

Novosibirsk, Russian Federation, 21-23 April 2009

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Prof. Alexander Karpik, Rector of the Siberian State Academy of Geodesy and Prof. Stig Enemark, President of FIG
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The famous church in the main street of Novosibirsk representing the centre of the former Soviet republic territory.

President Stig Enemark attended Geo-Siberia 2009, the Fifth International Exhibition and Scientific Congress, Novosibirsk, 20-24 April 2009 – invited by Alexander Karpik, Rector of the Siberian State Academy of Geodesy being the organiser of the conference.

The Geo-Siberia 2009 attracted about 1,500 participants from about 130 organisations and companies and from 15 foreign countries. In his opening speech president Enemark mentioned that “Geo-Siberia has in less than five years grown to become an important platform to demonstrate the latest achievements in technology and methods in surveying and GIS management. By combining a large scale exhibition with an international conference Geo-Serbia gives an excellent opportunity for professionals in Siberia, in Russia, the Central Asian Region and from overseas to discuss issues that are essential to not only the professionals but to society as a whole”.

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Siberian Fair Exhibition
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Siberian Fair Exhibition

The technical programme of Geo-Siberia 2009 included a rage of plenary sessions, round tables, and about 20 technical sessions with about 150 presentations in total. In the first plenary sessions the President Enemark gave a keynote address on “Surveyors facing the global agenda” that was well received by our Russian colleagues. See the conference website at: www.geosiberia.sibfair.ru/eng/.

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Alexander Karpik
, Rector, Stig Enemark, FIG President, Viktor Tolokonsky, Governor, and Gennady Sapozhnikov, Deputy Governor.
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Prof. Vladimir A. Seredovich, Vice-Rector of Siberian State Academy of Geodesy.
 

Furthermore a special seminar addressed the issue of “Integrating land management, cadastre and geodesy in the Central Asian Countries”. President Enemark gave the keynote address at this seminar to address this core issue for both Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Unfortunately representatives of the CIS could not attend the seminar due to financial constraints. But FIG will still aim to support the CIS countries in Central Asia to join the global surveying community.

FIG believes that Geo-Siberia is an important platform of cooperation with Russia and the Central Asian Countries. FIG will lend its support to develop this annual event further in the future for the benefit of Russia, The Central Asian Region and the global surveying community.

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Prof. Vasily A. Malinnikov, Rector of Moscow State University of Geodesy Cartography.
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Thanks to great hospitality of Russian hosts and colleagues.
 

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