7th FIG Regional Conference
18th October, 2009 – 22nd October, 2009
All ten FIG technical commissions will attend the conference. Papers therefore requested to all following topics: Professional Standards and Practice; Professional Education; Spatial Information Management; Hydrography; Positioning and Measurement; Engineering Surveys; Cadastre & Land Management; Spatial Planning & Development; Valuation and the Management of Real Estate; and Construction Economics and Management. The FIG commissions have further selected some key topics that are of interest for the region and international audience.
The theme “Spatial Data Serving People: Land Governance and the Environment – Building the Capacity” is divided into three sub-themes so that plenary session and focus on each day addresses one of these three topics:
Land Administration
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and the Environment
Capacity Building
Day 1 – Land Administration
Plenary session keynotes:
Land administration in Vietnam
WB projects in the SEA region
Land acquisition in developing economies
Issues for technical sessions:
Land law and tenure security
Cadastral mapping and land registration procedures
Land valuation and economics
Land acquisition in developing economies including compensation and resettlement
Regional World Bank and other donor projects
Equity and gender issues
Day 2 – SDI and the Environment
Plenary session keynotes:
SDI developments in Vietnam
Climate change and disaster risk management
Decentralisation and environmental management
Issues for technical sessions:
Building integrated SDIs
Disaster risk management
Harmonisation and standardisation of sectoral databases
Merging of cadastral and topographic databases
Topographic mapping and reference systems
Hydrographic Surveying and coastal and marine resource management
Monitoring mineral resources exploitation for environmental protection
Spatial planning and good governance for economic development and environmental protection
Day 3 – Capacity Building
Plenary session keynotes:
Professional standards and ethics
Surveying education in Vietnam and SEA region
Promoting public private partnership
Issues for technical sessions:
Professional standards and ethics
Educational standards and curricula development
Educational workshop
Accreditation, licensing, and mutual recognition
CPD requirements
Capacity building at societal, institutional and individual level
As a result from the conference an FIG Publication on Land Acquisition in developing economies will be prepared and published in the FIG publication series.
Please notice that deadline for submitting the abstract has been extended to 29 June 2009. Many thanks if you have submitted your abstract already. If not please submit your abstract now online at: http://www.fig.net/abstractdb/submit.asp?id=11. Receipt of your abstract will be acknowledged electronically.
When submitting a paper the author(s) agree that FIG has the right to publish the paper in the conference proceedings (at the conference and on the FIG web site); and in the FIG Surveyors Reference Library without any other agreement or compensation. The copyright of the paper remains by the author(s).
The number of abstracts is limited to maximum two per author.
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Contact: Secretariat,
