FIG General Assembly
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Welcome to this 46th FIG General Assembly which will take place in Orlando Florida. The two General Assembly sessions will be recorded and made available afterwards.
The programme is as follows (time is shown in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) which is the easternmost time zone in the United States (UTC-4)).
The following will explain in detail the format and procedure of the General Assembly.
Go to:(see the full Working Weeks programme at www.fig.net/fig2023)
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Sunday, 28 May 2023 |
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| 9:00-15:30 EDT | General Assembly Day 1 |
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Monday, 29 May 2023 |
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| 11:30-13:00 EDT | Member Association
Forum by invitation |
| 11:30-13:00 EDT | FIG Task Force: Reimagining the Climate Action Agenda for the Global Surveyor Community through FIG |
| 16:30-18:00 EDT | Academic Member Forum |
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Tuesday, 30 May 2023 |
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| 11:30-13:00 EDT | Director Generals Forum (Affiliate members) incl. FIG Task Force on Geospatial Trends |
| 11:30-13:00 EDT | FIG Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in the Surveying Profession |
| 16:30-18:00 EDT | Annual Meetings of FIG Commissions |
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Wednesday, 31 May 2023 |
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| 14:00 EDT | Online voting for Destination for FIG Working Week 2027 starts |
| 14:30-16:00 | FIG Corporate Members meeting |
| 14:30-16:00 | FIG Africa Capacity Development Network meeting |
| 14:30-16:00 | FIG Americas Capacity Development Network meeting |
| 14:30-16:00 | FIG Standards Network Meeting |
| 16:30-18:00 | Presidents Meeting by invitation only |
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Thursday, 1 June 2023 |
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| 8:00 AM | Voting ends |
| 10.00-13:00 | General Assembly Day 2 |
All members are encouraged to participate in person in the General Assembly. This year the General Assembly will be an on-site event and will take place in Orlando, Florida on 28 May and 1 June 2023. The General Assembly will be recorded and will be available afterwards.
Each member must appoint in advance an official representative for voting. Voting will take place online. In the roll call document members with online official representative will be recorded. There will be onsite roll call and all members that are present will be recorded in the roll call document.
Eligible to vote are member associations (MA) in good standing. The official representative will be the person who will receive the emails with the link to voting and who will cast the vote on behalf of the association.
All member associations are asked to appoint their official delegate
the latest on 15 May 2023. This will be done through
this google form:
https://forms.gle/7y4Bwb2t97v35dhL7
If you cannot access the google form, please contact FIG-Director Louise
Friis-Hansen to receive the form directly (in .doc format)
[email protected]
Please note that only member associations in good standing will be able to vote at the General Assembly. This means that the association does not have unpaid arrears from 2022 or earlier. FIG Office will send out reminders to all members in arrears. If you are in doubt whether your association has unpaid, please contact FIG Office at [email protected]. Payment of arrears must be received the latest on 23 May 2023 in order to be included in the voting. Later payments will be considered as not received in due time. It is possible to pay onsite, the latest on 29 May 4:00 PM EDT.
The General Assembly will take place in Orlando, Florida, at Signia
by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek / Waldorf Astoria Orlando in the Bonnet
Creek Ball Room. We encourage you to attend in person.
Register here for the full Working Week:
https://fig.net/fig2023/registration.htm
Since the General Assembly and Working Week will take place in Florida all times mentioned are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Adoption of agenda items will be done onsite among the onsite delegates.
In this General Assembly agenda there will be only one direct election which is the voting for the host and destination of the FIG Working Week 2027.
This voting will start on Wednesday 31 May at 14:00/2PM EDT and will end on Thursday 1 June at 8:00AM EDT.
Voting will be online. Official delegates who attend onsite in Orlando will also vote online. Please make sure that you have access to your email. When the voting starts an email is sent to the official delegate from SimpyVoting.com with instructions on how to logon. For those associations with more than one vote, separate emails for each vote will be sent.
We will be using the online voting system Simply Voting (https://www.simplyvoting.com/) which is the same system as in 2021 and 2022. In order to make sure that each member association can vote (due to the different time zones and eventually instable internet connection) we will give you sufficient time to cast your vote. When the voting ends FIG Director and the appointed tellers will get a certified report from Simply Voting with the result. In case a delegate is not able to access the system the tellers can confidentially assist with the cast of vote.
All member associations will be asked to appoint an official
representative for the voting. Submission of the official representative
must be done here:
https://forms.gle/7y4Bwb2t97v35dhL7
Please note: It is important that we get a valid email address for the official representative. The links to the voting sheets will be sent to the email address that you provide to us, and only to this one email address. You cannot enter more than one email address.
Members who have two or three votes will receive two or three emails – please note it is possible to vote separately in each of the voting sheets.
For members who do not attend the General Assembly, the recording will be made available and also the presentation material. We encourage you to read the bids carefully before you make your decision and cast your vote.
Special information to member associations: Please
submit in this form the name and contact details of your official
delegate. This is needed in order to vote. Deadline is 15 May
2023.
https://forms.gle/7y4Bwb2t97v35dhL7
For the full Working Week programme check:
http://www.fig.net/fig2023/program.htm
for the meetings to be held on
Sunday 28 May 9:00 - 15:30 and
Thursday 1 June 2023 10:00 - 13:00
in Bonnet Creek Ball Room at
Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek / Waldorf Astoria Orlando, Florida,
USA
This online version of the agenda includes link to all appendices in .pdf.
To download the agenda (with links to appendices) in .pdf please click here:
Agenda (pdf, 24 pages)
Note: Revisions are shown only on the .htm version of the agenda and marked with colour.
The individual appendix files can be downloaded below under each item in pdf format.
PLEASE NOTE: FIG Office has sent invitation and agenda only by email. The General Assembly has been announced previously directly to all members.
Changes to the agenda after it was originally distributed by email to the member associations are marked in this agenda with colour and date.
President Diane Dumashie to open the 46th General Assembly.
Both official members and persons with an interest in FIG are encouraged to participate in the General Assembly.
The roll call will be done for member associations only.
Each member must appoint in advance an official representative for
voting. Voting will take place online. In the roll call document members
with online official representative will be recorded.
All member associations are asked to appoint their official delegate the
latest on 15 May 2023. This will be done through this google form:
https://forms.gle/7y4Bwb2t97v35dhL7
If you cannot access the google form, please contact FIG Director Louise Friis-Hansen to receive the form directly (in .doc format) [email protected]
It is important that you register your official delegate for voting. This official delegate does not necessarily have to attend in Orlando in order to vote, however, if not we encourage that you are reading the bidding material carefully before you cast your vote. The recording of the first General Assembly Day incl presentation material will be posted soonest possible after the meeting.
Please note that only member associations in good standing will be able to vote at the General Assembly. This means that the association does not have unpaid arrears from 2021 or earlier. FIG Office will send out reminders to all members in arrears. If you are in doubt whether your association has unpaid, please contact FIG Office at [email protected]. Payment of arrears must be received the latest on 23 May 2023 in order for the member association to register and to be included in the first voting on general matters. Later payments will be considered as not received in due time.
Appendix to item 2 & 28: Roll Call (Updated on 17 May 2023) including information on member associations that are not allowed to vote at the General Assembly because of unpaid membership fees for 2021 and earlier.
Motion:: That members that are present at the first General Assembly day are recorded in the minutes.
Decision:
Normally the General Assembly shall appoint two persons as tellers for the entire General Assembly. Since voting will take place online through a secure voting system, SimplyVoting, a certified report from SimplyVoting with the results will be published.
The voting sheets will be prepared by FIG-Office and two appointed tellers will apart from FIG Director have access to the SimplyVoting system.
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Security, Reliability and Transparency of the Electronic Voting IIt is important to note that nobody within FIG including the two tellers will have access to details of the votes cast. The voting itself runs fully automatic and is under the external control of Simply Voting Inc., 5160 Decarie Boulevard Suite 502, Montreal, QC H3X 2H9, Canada. For more information please. visit the website www.simplyvoting.com |
The voting system allows the tellers to see who has cast a vote and when this has been done, but they cannot see any details on what each delegate has voted, nor can they see any results until the voting is finalised and a report has been created by SimplyVoting. Once the voting is over the overall result will be published by the system.
FIG Council suggests to appoint per tradition one teller from the preceding event (FIG Congress 2022) and one teller from the upcoming event (FIG Working Week 2024).
FIG Council suggests to appoint:
Motion: That the General Assembly appoints two tellers , one teller from the preceding event (FIG Congress 2022) and one teller from the upcoming event (FIG Working Week 2024).
Decision:
The General Assembly was announced through the newsletter and on FIG web site, and the Agenda for the General Assembly was published in July on the web site and sent by email to all members.
Motion: That the agenda for 2023 will be adopted
Decision:
The minutes from 2022 have been circulated previously.
Appendix to item 5: The minutes of the General Assembly 2022
Motion: That the minutes are adopted as recorded.
Decision:
FIG has received one new applications for membership since the 45th General Assembly.
6.1.1 Haitian Association of Geodetic Survedyos (HAGS) MA-10139
The Haitian Association of Geodetic Surveys (HAGS) association was founded during the month of August 2021. The association has 24 members. FIG Council has discussed the application and has decided to bring it forward to the General Assembly.
Appendix to agenda item 6.1.1: Application form
Motion: That the General Assembly admits the Haitian Association of Geodetic Surveys (HAGS) to become an association member of FIG.
Decision:
The two Finnish member associations of FIG MIL and MAKLI have merged and will continues as one member of FIG under the name of Finnish Association of Geodetic and Land Surveyors MIL.
MA-10118 Nigerian institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers NIESV has been reinstalled as member after they have paid their arrears.
Belarus Land reform Association MA-10007 has terminated its membership in 2022. The association does not exist anymore.
Due to exceptional circumstances in Turkey and the immediate region earlier this year, FIG has waived the subscription fee for the year 2023 for the Chamber of Surveying and Cadastre Engineers of Türkiye, HKMO, knowing that all their efforts, financial and personal, are being used to assist and help in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes the update.
Decision:
The General Assembly has power to expel from the Federation any member association whose fees are in arrears and shall under normal circumstances expel any member association whose fees are three years in arrears. (Article 4.3 of the Statutes).
The FIG office has sent information to these associations informing that if their membership fees are still in arrears at the time of the General Assembly the General Assembly shall expel the above member associations at its meeting on 28 May 2023 unless FIG Office receives payment from the associations.
FIG Office has received the outstanding arrears from Institusi Geomatik Brunei (IGB) and the organisation is therefore no longer going to be expelled. (Added 10 May 2023)
After acceptance of the new member association and before expulsions, the number of FIG member associations is 97 from 83 countries (updated 10 May 2023).
Motion: That the General Assembly notes that at this General Assembly there are two members to expel unless FIG office receives payment from the associations:
Decision:
In accordance with its administrative measures, FIG Council, has deferred to continue for 2023 the issuance of a membership subscription invoice to the following members and FIG Council deems their membership to be in suspension:
The situation with these associations will be reconsidered by Council again in 2023.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes the members in suspension.
Decision:
6.5.1 Affiliate members
There has been no three application for affiliate membership since the General Assembly 2022:
Three affiliate members have been expelled:
After these changes the number of Affiliate members is 40 43 from 39 41 countries.
6.5.2 Corporate members
FIG Council has admitted two applications for corporate membership:
There were no expulsions of corporate members de to lack of payment of membership fee.
FIG office has been informed in May 2023 that the corporate member Derinsu Underwater Engineering & Consulting want to terminate their membership (Category E)
After these changes, the number of corporate members is now 21. Updated 10 May 2023
6.5.3 Academic members
FIG Council has admitted six new Academic members since the General Assembly 2022:
The payment structure of the Academic Members was changed in 2013 so that Academic Members would be invoiced every 4 years instead of every year. The four-year payment will reward the members with a 50% discount. Academic members were invoiced in 2014, 2018 and again in 2022.
The number of Academic Members after these changes is 81 83 from 51 52 countries.
6.5.4 Correspondents
The number of correspondent members are five. The current correspondents are coming from Maldives, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tonga and Venezuela.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes the actions that the Council has taken with other membership matters.
Decision:
President Diane Dumashie has prepared the President’s report on the activities of the Federation since the General Assembly in 2022 that was held in Warsaw, Poland.
Appendix to item 7:
Motion: That the General Assembly accepts the President’s report 2023.
Decision:
The German Association for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management, DVW, has sent FIG Council a letter in which it proposes that FIG appoints Prof. Rudolf Staiger, the immediate Past President of FIG, as an Honorary President of the Federation.
According to paragraph 3.1.6 in the statutes “a past president who has rendered outstanding service to the Federation during his period of office can be appointed as an honorary president”. Nomination shall be made by a member association or by the Council, which will consider it and submit it to a vote of the General Assembly.
The Council has decided to bring forward this proposal to the General Assembly, noting that Rudolf Staiger fulfils the criteria for an Honorary President and his achievements as the President for the term 2019-2022 have contributed the Federation to extend that he without any doubt deserves to be appointed as an FIG Honorary President.
Appendix to agenda item 8: The nomination letter for:
The Council has received one nomination for Honorary Member:
According to the Statutes paragraph 3.1.7 an individual who has materially assisted the development and promotion of the surveying profession at the international level can be appointed as an honorary member. Nomination for this appointment shall be made by a member association or the Council, which will consider it and submit it to a vote of the General Assembly.
The Council has considered the proposal and decided to propose to the General Assembly that it appoints Mr. Brent Jones as Honorary Members of the Federation for the outstanding services he has provided to the Federation over many years.
Appendix to agenda item 9: The nomination letter for:
Motion: : That FIG General Assembly appoints Mr Brent Jones as Honorary Members of FIG.
Decision:
The originally elected Chair of FIG Commission 10, elected at the General Assembly in 2021, has with regret informed that he will not be able to take on the responsibility as chair of the commission for this term. FIG Council has been in contact with the Nigerian Institution of Quantity Surveyors, who has has appointed Ms Mercy Iyortyer, Nigeria. FIG Council has with thanks accepted this nomination and has appointed Ms Mercy Iyortyer Chair of FIG Commission 10 for the term 2023-2026.
Motion: That the General Assembly records the appointment of Ms Mercy Iyortyer, Nigeria as Chair of FIG Commission 10 for the term 2023-2026
Decision:
The Council has prepared the FIG Council Work Plan for 2023-2026. Together with the Commission Work Plans the Council Work Plan will form the FIG Work Plan for the next four years. The proposal for the Council Work Plan 2023-2026 is attached to the agenda. The Council Work Plan has been coordinated with the Commissions', Networks', Task Forces’ and Permanent Institutions’ Work Plans.
President Diane Dumashie will present the Work Plan at the meeting. The Council has also decided on responsibilities of individual Council members. This list is included as an appendix to the Council Work Plan. An up-to-date list will always be available on the FIG web site.
Appendix to item 11:
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts the Council Work Plan for 2023-2026
Decision:
Mr. John Hohol, President of the FIG Foundation, has prepared a written report on the FIG Foundation activities in 2022 . He will make a brief report orally at the General Assembly.
After more than 20 years of being President of FIG Foundation John Hohol will step down from this position. FIG Council has accepted this decision and has appointed Mr Bryn Fosburgh, who was appointed one of the Directors of FIG Foundation in 2022, to take over this position. This succession will occur gradually over the next year. FIG Council thanks Mr John Hohol for his extensive work over these more than 20 years and to bring the FIG Foundation to where it is today.
Appendix to item 12:
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts the report of the President of the FIG Foundation and records its thanks to the President and members of the Board of Directors of the FIG Foundation for their past year’s work and that the General Assembly notes the appointment by FIG Council of Bryn Fosburgh to take over the presidency of FIG Foundation.
Decision:
The financial report will be presented to the General Assembly. This report includes the auditor’s report from 2022, official accounts (income statement 2022) and balance sheet at 31 December 2022, an updated budget for 2023 and proposals for budgets 2024-2026.
Appendix: Report on Financial Issues (including 2022 accounts and budgets 2023-2026)
Annexes:
Motion: That the General Assembly
Decision:
The General Assembly has to set levels of fees for member associations two years in advance of the year in which they become payable. Fees are payable in respect of each individual member up to a maximum of 5,500 members. Membership fees have been discussed as part of the finance report, appendix to item 13.
The 2022 General Assembly approved membership fees for 2024 as follows:
Per capita fee
Minimum fee
Maximum fee
2024
€ 4.80 per member
up to a maximum of 5,500 members
Member associations from countries listed by the World Bank as
low-income economies or lower-middle-income economies shall pay
€ 2.40 member up to a maximum of 5,500 members.20 members or € 50
(whichever is greater)
5,500 members (€ 26,400)
The World Bank lists of the low-income economies and the lower-middle-income economies are available at: http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups
The General Assembly decided in 2017 to increase subscription fees with 8% for 2019 after subscription fees have been kept at the same level for the years 2012-2018. This level has been kept in the following years.
FIG Council has discussed the fees in the light of the current inflation and the decrease in subscription income. Even though this will affect the budget Council suggest that the subscription fee for 2025 will remain at same level. Council is conscious of the economic conditions that members are operating under and do hope that members will use their best endeavours to report their actual number of national members.
It must be noted that in 2021 FIG Council granted a 20% reduction of fee to all members due to the difficulties during the Covid19 Pandemic.
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts following membership fees payable by member associations in 2025:
| Per capita fee | Minimum fee | Maximum fee | |
| 2025 | € 4.80 per member
up to a maximum of 5,500 members Member associations from countries listed by the World Bank as low-income economies or lower-middle-income economies shall pay € 2.40 member up to a maximum of 5,500 members. |
20 members or € 50 (whichever is greater) | 5,500 members (€ 26,400) |
Decision:
In 2019 FIG Council established a Task Force to focus on FIG and the Sustainable Development Goals. This Task Force has been chaired by Ms. Paula Dijkstra from the Netherlands. The Task Force delivered in cooperation with the Commissions good progress, however several activities were delayed due to the COVID19 pandemic. Council has decided to continue this Task Force for the next term.
Appendix to item 15: Terms of Reference for the Task Force on FIG and the Sustainable Development Goals
Motion: That the General Assembly records the Council’s decision to continue the Task Force on FIG and the Sustainable Development Goals and its terms of reference as well as the appointment of Ms. Paula Dijkstra to continue to chair the Task Force.
Decision:
FIG Council has established three new Task Forces for the term
2023-2026.
The first Task Force will look into the role of FIG in international
trends and future geospatial information ecosystem. This Task Force will
be chaired by Prof. Abbas Rajabifard, Australia. The Task Force topic
will be included in the Director Generals Forum in the Working Week
technical programme.
Appendix to agenda item 16: Terms of Reference
Motion: That the General Assembly records the Council’s decision of establishment of the Task Force on the role of FIG in international trends and future geospatial information ecosystem, appointment of Prof. Abbas Rajabifard to chair the Task Force and its terms of reference.
Decision:
The Second Task Force established by FIG Council is an outward facing task force to encourage young people into the profession. This task force will be led by Mr Stephen Djaba, Ghana. There will be a special Task Force session in the technical programme of the Working Week.
Appendix to agenda item 17: Terms of Reference (added 17 May 2023)
Motion: That the General Assembly records the Council’s decision of establishment of an outward facing task force to encourage young people into the profession, appointment of Mr Stephen Djaba to chair the Task Force and its terms of reference.
Decision:
The Third Task Force that FIG Council has established is a FIG Climate Compass Task Force – the Surveying Profession’s Global Response to Tackling the Climate Agenda. Co-chairs of the Task Force are Ms. Roshni Sharma and Ms. Clarissa Augustinus.
Appendix
to Agenda item 18: Terms of ReferenceMotion: That the General Assembly records the Council’s decision of establishment of a FIG Climate Compass Task Force, appointment of Ms Roshni Sharma and Ms Clarissa Augustinus to co-chair the Task Force and its terms of reference.
Decision:
Council suggests to establish two Working Groups under Council.
Motion: That the General Assembly records the Councils decision of establishment of two Working Groups under FIG Council on FIG Knowledge Assets and Infrastructure co-chaired by Daniel Steudler and Eva-Maria Unger and a 50-year Perspective publication chaired by Stig Enemark.
Decision:
Dr. Eva-Maria Unger, Director of OICRF has prepared a report on the
OICRF activities and will present at short oral report at the General
Assembly
Appendix to item 20.1: OICRF report (added 25 May 2023)
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts the report and records its thanks to the Director and the members of OICRF for their past year’s work and contributions.
Decision:
Mr. Jan de Graeve, Director of the IIHSM and Mr. John Brock have prepared a report on the IIHS&M. Representatives of the Permanent Institution will present a short oral report to the General Assembly.
Appendix to item 20.2: IIHS&M report (added 22 May)
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts the report and records its thanks to the Director and the members of the permanent institution for their past year’s work and contribution.
Decision:
FIG Young Surveyors Network is for the term 20223 chaired by Ferah Kökhsal, Turkey. Attached to this agenda is a report on the FIG Young Surveyors activities during the past year and their work plan for the coming term. FIG Young Surveyors will present a short oral report to the General Assembly.
Appendix to item 21.1: Young Surveyors Work Plan (to be added)
Motion: that the General Assembly adopts the report, and thanks all the many active Young Surveyors.
Decision:
The Chair of the network, David Martin has prepared a written report to the General Assembly of the activities 2022-23. The Chair of the Standards Network will be ready during general assembly session 1 to respond to questions and comments from the delegates.
Appendix to item 21.2: Standards Network Report and Work Plan (to be added)
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts the report from the Network and records its thanks to the Chair of the Network and its members.
Decision:
The Chair of the Asia/Pacific Network, Rob Sarib will present a short oral report to the General Assembly and Surv. Mohmmed M Kabir, Chair of FIG Africa Regional Network ARN will present in brief the Work Plan for the term 2023-2026.
Appendix to item 21.3:
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts the reports and Work Plans from the networks, notes the update and appointments made by FIG Council, and records its thanks to the Chair of the Networks and their members.
Decision:
The Commission Chairs have prepared their Commission Work Plans for the term 2023-2026 with input from commission members and delegates. The Work Plans have been coordinated with the Council Work Plan and with other Commission Work Plans at a special meeting in February 2023. All Commission Work Plans have now been finalised and synchronized with the Council Work Plan are presented for the General Assembly for its approval in Orlando in May 2023.
At the General Assembly time has been reserved for the members to discuss the work plans and Commission activities with the Commission Chairs. This discussion will be chaired by Vice President Mikael Lilje Council representative to ACCO, together with Mr Tim Burch, ACCO representative to Council(2023-2024).
Appendix to item 22:
| Commission 1 | Work Plan |
| Commission 2 | Work Plan |
| Commission 3 | Work Plan |
| Commission 4 | Work Plan |
| Commission 5 | Work Plan |
| Commission 6 | Work Plan |
| Commission 7 | Work Plan |
| Commission 8 | Work Plan |
| Commission 9 | Work Plan |
| Commission 10 | Work Plan |
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts the Work Plans of the Commission Chairs and records its thanks to the chairs and other officers of the Commissions for their ongoing contributions.
Decision:
Since the last General Assembly agenda in September 2022, FIG has published three Four new publications:
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FIG Publication no 78: Geospatial Data in the 2020s - Transformative Power and Pathways to Sustainability FIG Commission 3 – Spatial Information Management FIG Report 2022 |
FIG Publication no 79: Land Consolidation – The Fundamentals to Guide Practice FIG Commission 8 - Spatial Planning and Development, FIG Report 2022 |
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FIG Publication no 80: Digital transformation and land administration Sustainable practices from the UNECE region and beyond FAO, UN AND FIG FIG Guide 2022 |
FIG Publication no 81: Enhancing Surveying Education through Blended Learning FIG Commission 2 - Professional Education FIG Report 2023 (added 22 May 2023) |
Motion: That the General Assembly notes the new publications
Decision:
FIG has continued to collaborate with the World Bank and various agencies and structures within the United Nations.
Appendix to agenda item 24: Cooperation with partners
Motion: That the General Assembly adopts the report on the co-operation between FIG and the United Nations, its agencies and the World Bank and records its thanks to all those who have contributed to this co-operation
Decision:
Appendix to agenda item 25: Cooperation with partners
Motion: That the General Assembly records the report on the liaison with other international associations.
Decision:
The FIG Working Weeks are organised by FIG together with a local member association. FIG will together with the local member association have full responsibility of the arrangements and of the financial result. This offers FIG better opportunities in terms of organising events and generating revenue. Therefore, the Council has to ensure that all candidates are aware of the role of FIG and split of responsibilities for organising the Working Week. This General Assembly will decide on the host for the FIG Working Week 2027.
The FIG Council has received two bids to host the FIG Working Week 2027, and FIG Council thanks the national associations for their special engagement and contribution to FIG.
The Council has prepared a desktop summary on the bids. In the summary report the considerations, as laid out in the invitation documentation, are described for comparison:
The summary report will not give a recommendation or a preference to any candidate but it will draw from the bids to highlight the information provided on each items listed above and summarise the pros and cons of each candidate to assist the member association in making their decision.
The General Assembly must note that, especially in these past years, the issue of security and financial viability has come to the fore. The purpose of the evaluation process is to maintain the continued viability, high standard and quality of the FIG Working Week.
The Council has considered the bids and has decided to present the submitted bids to the General Assembly for its decision:
Appendix to agenda item 26
Summary report (added 22 May 2023)
Motion: That the General Assembly notes the submission and the presentation, makes its careful consideration and decision for the online voting.
Decision:
The Presidents Meeting is convened by the FIG President and is reserved for Presidents or Heads of delegations of Member Associations (or their representatives). The meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 31 May 2023 at 16:30 – 18:00.
There will be a roll call for members attending in person in Orlando,
Florida.
Appendix to item 2& 28:
Roll Call
(added on 8 May 2023) ncluding
information on member associations that are not allowed to vote at the
General Assembly because of unpaid membership fees for 2022 and earlier.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes the members who are present in person on day 2 of the General Assembly.
Decision:
The Council will decide on other membership issues, if any, considered in Orlando and bring them to the General Assembly for decision or information as necessary.
Motion: That the General Assembly decides on the membership issues based on the proposal of the Council.
Decision:
The General Assembly has been presented to the two bids from Nepal and Norway on General Assembly day 1. Online election will take place between Wednesday 31 May 2023 14:00/2PM EDT and Thursday 1 June 2023 8:00AM EDT.
The result of the online voting will be presented by FIG Council.
Motion: That the General Assembly notes and adopts the voting result.
Decision:
During the Working Week there will be Member Association Forum, the Director General's/Affiliate Members Forum, Academic Members Forum, Forum of Regional Bodies and Corporate Members Meeting. They may report back to the General Assembly on any issues that may need the endorsement of or are of general interest to the General Assembly.
Motion: That the General Assembly records the report(s)
Decision:
FIG Commissions will have their annual meetings, administrative meetings and technical sessions during the Working Week. They may report back to the General Assembly on any issues that may need the endorsement of or are of general interest to the General Assembly. Any other activities from the Working Week may be reported back to the General Assembly on any issues that may need the endorsement of or are of general interest to the General Assembly.
Motion: That the General Assembly records the report(s).
Decision:
Networks, Task Forces, Permanent Institutions, FIG Foundation and
others will have meetings and technical sessions during the Working WEek. They may
report back to the General Assembly on any issues that may need the
endorsement of or are of general interest to the General Assembly. Any
other activities from the Working Week may be reported back to the General
Assembly on any issues that may need the endorsement of or are of
general interest to the General Assembly.
Motion: That the General Assembly records the report(s).
Decision:
Any other issues that the members want to raise for discussion.
Motion: That the discussion will be recorded, and the Council will consider action that will be required.
Decision:
Representatives from the Local Organising Committee from South African Geomatics Institute (SAGI) will give a short presentation on preparations of FIG Congress 2026.
Motion: That the General Assembly records the report.
Decision:
Representatives from the Local Organising Committee from Geospatial Council of Australia will give a short presentation on preparations of FIG Working Week 2025.
Motion: That the General Assembly records the report.
Decision:
Representatives from the Local Organising Committee from GhIS and LISAC will give a presentation on preparations of FIG Working Week 2024.
Motion: That the General Assembly records the report.
Decision:
Data supplied by the FIG Office.
Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that this data is accurate errors might exist. Requests for updates and corrections should be emailed to the FIG Office.
