News in 2013
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Greetings: The IX international exhibition and scientific
congress INTEREXPO GEO-SIBERIA-2013
“Advanced Geospatial and Surveying Technologies for Environmental
Management and Sustainable Territorial Development”
Novo Siberia, Russian Federation 16 - 18 April 2013
Greetings from Mr. CheeHai Teo, President of FIG.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Warm greetings from our global community and we extend our heartiest
congratulations to the Siberian State Academy of Geodesy on its 80th
Anniversary. We also congratulate SSAG, its partners and supporters for the
successful hosting of the ninth edition of the Interexpo GEO-Siberia in
Novosibirsk, an event that combines an international exhibition and
scientific congress, that provides a forum for professionals and
participants from both near and far, to deliberate and demonstrate the use
and usefulness of geospatial and surveying technologies for sustainable
environmental management and sustainable development.
Our Profession must recognize ongoing global initiatives on managing all
information spatially or geospatially, on voluntary guidelines for the
Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forest, on the
continuum of land rights toward secure tenure and property rights for all.
We also recognize a rapidly changing environment, where we are witnessing
newer generation of web-based and mobile services that are stimulating an
increasing interest and use of our sciences, technologies and practices in
society and industry today. Information with geospatial context is
increasingly being used to ensure emergency services arrive at incidents in
time, for evidence based decisions, to support the formulation of policies,
to ensure citizen-centric delivery systems, to name some, as well as for
whole-of-government efficiencies.
We are optimistic as our Professional community has the sciences,
technologies and practices to rely upon. Our Professional community also
strive to be in touch with political, societal, environmental and economic
realities and in the midst of all these, with ethical principles and
conduct, serving people, places and policies with our data, information,
knowledge and actions. This is a complex and interconnected environment but
when this environment is operating synergistically, there can be
sustainability.
Over the course of this three-day event, I trust there will be ample
opportunities to discuss, debate and deliberate latest and advanced
approaches that will allow our Profession to be continually armed with
knowledge and best practices, extending the usefulness of geospatial
sciences and surveying for the benefit of society, environment and economy,
increasing our relevance and contribution.
We wish all delegates, participants as well as the organizers, supporters
and sponsors useful
discussions, debates and deliberations.
CheeHai Teo
President
International Federation of Surveyors
28 May 2013
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