FIG President Teo attends the 17th Meeting of the Permanent
Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia and the Pacific
21- 22 July 2011, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The Permanent Committee was established pursuant to Resolution 16 of the
13th United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the
Pacific (Beijing 1994) and operates under the purview of the United Nations
Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific (UNRCC-AP). The
Committee submits its report and recommendations to that Conference.
The aims of the Permanent Committee are to maximize the economic, social
and environmental benefits of geographic information in accordance with
Agenda 21 by providing a forum for nations from Asia and the Pacific to:
- cooperate in the development of a regional geographic information
infrastructure;
- contribute to the development of the global geographic information
infrastructure;
- share experiences and consult on matters of common interest; and
- participate in any other form of activity such as education,
training, and technology transfer.
The Administration of Land Affairs, Construction, Geodesy and
Cartography, Ministry of Road, Transportation, Construction and Urban
Planning Mongolia hosted the 17th Meeting of the Permanent Committee at the
Chinggis Khaan Hotel, Ulaanbaatar. The Executive Board comprises 11 member
countries, the current President of PCGIAP is PR China, and Vice President
is Japan with the Republic of Korea providing the Secretary. The remaining
eight members of the Executive Board are Australia, Brunei Darussalam,
India, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Malaysia and Singapore. PCGIAP comprises
56 jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific and within 29 of these, FIG has a
presence.
At the meeting FIG as an observer, was given the opportunity to make a
presentation and President CheeHai Teo introduced the current FIG Council
and its priorities as well as exploring opportunities for contribution and
collaboration. These proposals were also made in anticipation of a
successful outcome at the inaugural United Nations High Level Forum on
Global Geospatial Information Management on 24– 26 October 2011 to be hosted
by the Government of the Republic of Korea in Seoul.
Following from the proposals and subsequent discussions, specifically,
FIG welcomes the following resolutions that was adopted at the conclusion of
the 17th PCGIAP Meeting in Ulaanbaatar –
- Resolution WG 1.4 - “Undertake outreach to support geodetic
activities in the region by liaison with related organizations including
FIG”
- Resolution WG 3.4 - “With the theme ‘Beyond Spatial Enablement –
Land Administration to Support Spatially Enabled Government’, convene
the 4th PCGIAP Forum on Land Administration in conjunction with the 10th
Year Anniversary of the Centre for SDIs and Land Administration,
University of Melbourne, in October 2011”
- Resolution WG 3.5 - “With the theme ‘Spatially Enabled Government
and Society’ convene an International Symposium in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia in February 2012 hosted by the Department of Survey and Mapping
Malaysia”
FIG, through the Task Force on Spatially Enabled Society and in
association with GSDI Association, will support the 4th PCGIAP Land
Administration Forum on “Beyond Spatial Enablement” at the University of
Melbourne in October 2011 that will lead to the International Symposium in
February 2012 on “Spatially Enabled Government and Society” as well as the
possibility of a 5th PCGIAP Land Administration Forum later in 2012 before
UNRCC-AP in October 2012. It is part of FIG’s contribution towards Global
Geospatial Information Management and efforts to cascade down to the
operative level these high level initiatives.
FIG, through Commission 5 and 6 and in association with IAG, will be
supporting a PCGIAP Training activity on Geodesy in the Philippines on the
sideline of the 12th South East Asian Survey Congress in 2013.
FIG, through the Task Force on Surveyors and Climate Change and in
association with other regional Partners, will explore opportunities to
further the “FIG Sydney Agenda for Action”, an Agenda aimed at addressing
the challenges of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in achieving the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with a special focus on the Pacific
Region. The Agenda emphasised the importance of good land governance
especially in relation to climate change and natural disaster; access to
land, coastal and marine resources; and secure tenure rights and
administration as well as aiming to building the capacity of natural and
built environment professionals to deal with these challenges.
CheeHai TEO
President
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
23 July 2011
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