FIG Council meets in Jakarta during the 3rd Regional
Conference
Jakarta, Indonesia, October 8, 2004
The FIG Council had its meeting during the 3rd Regional Conference in
Jakarta 8 October 2004. This was the first time when the two new Vice
Presidents Ken Allred and Stig Enemark attended the Council
meeting after they were elected in Athens in May 2004. Their term of office
will officially start 1 January 2005.
The decisions of the Council in Jakarta included:
- Confirmation of responsibilities of the Council members after two new
Vice Presidents were appointed and Vice President Bettina Petzold
had resigned. According to the new list of responsibilities Ken Allred
will be in charge for students and young surveyors and regional
responsibility for North America. Stig Enemark for professional
development (including professional qualifications and CPD) and developing
the database of international experts and together with Bela Markus to
develop the surveying education database. Ken Allred will be responsible
for Commissions 1 and 4 and Stig Enemark for Commissions 2 and 7.
- Recorded that Commission officers have appointed Matt Higgins
as their representative to the Council for the term of office
1.1.2005-31.12.2006
- Recorded thanks to Bettina Petzold and Gerhard Muggenhuber for
their work as Council members. Gerhard will naturally continue his work as
Commission 3 chair.
- Approved member applications from Brunei Institution of Geomatics
(Brunei Darussalam) and Institution of Surveyors of the United Arab
Emirates (Dubai, UAE), the final decision on this will made by the General
Assembly in Cairo in April 2005.
- Admitted SINICAP (Sistema Nacional Integrado de Información Catastral
Predial) from Peru as an affiliate member.
- Admitted five new universities as academic members:
- University of South Pacific, Department of Land Management and
Development, Oceania (Fiji)
- State Agrarian University of Moldova, Faculty of Cadastre and
Environmental Engineering, Moldova
- University of West Indies, Surveying and Land Information, Trinidad
- University of Lagos, Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics,
Nigeria
- Institute of Technology Bandung, Department of Geodetic Engineering,
Indonesia
- In addition the Council decided to request more information from three
other academic institutions which have applied for academic membership.
The Council also decided to prepare a document on requirements for
membership in different categories to be discussed in the next Council
meeting in January 2005.
- Recorded that Wilfred Rodrigues, correspondent from Antigua has
moved to Saint Lucia, WI and accepted his application to continue as a
correspondent
- Approved three new corporate members:
- Confirmed that the 4th Regional Conference in 2005 will be held in
Havana, Cuba. The planned dates are 26-29 September 2005, but these will
be finally confirmed in the beginning of November 2004.
- Decided to organise the 5th Regional Conference in Accra, Ghana, March
23-27, 2006
- Confirmed the new dates for the FIG Congress 2006 in Munich to be held
8-13 October 2006 linked to Intergeo 2006 October 10-12, 2006
- Decided to explore the possibilities to create an FIG prize or award
for the Working Week/Congress in addition to the current Congress Prize
for young surveyors. Ralf Schroth will prepare as discussion
document on this for the Council
- Decided that Stig Enemark will be in charge for the issues related
mutual recognition and certification of personnel
- Decided that Stig Enemark will prepare a discussion paper on the FIG
database on consultants, an issue that has been discussed for several
years in FIG
The next Council meeting will take place in Munich 28-30 January 2005. At
this meeting Council will also make its proposal on the venue of the FIG
Congress 2010 to the General Assembly.
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