FIG President Stig Enemark attends the 3rd UN Sponsored Land
Administration Forum for the Asia and Pacific Region
Tehran, Iran, 24-26 May 2009
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The conference poster. |
Tehran, about 8 mill inhabitants sheltered by white mountains. |
President Stig Enemark attended the 3rd UN Sponsored Land
Administration Forum for the Asia and Pacific Region entitled “Re-Engineering
the Cadastre to Support E-Government” in Tehran, Iran, 24-26 May 2009.
The Forum was organised by the UN sponsored Permanent Committee on GIS
Infrastructure (PCGIAP) together with Islamic Republic of Iran’s Deeds and
Properties Registration Organization, the International Federation of
Surveyors (FIG), the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI)
and the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration,
University of Melbourne. The aim was to discuss to discuss land
administration issues and the role of cadastre to support e-government in
the Asia and Pacific region. The Seminar was Chaired by Prof Ian
Williamson and co-chaired by Associate Professor Abbas Rajabifard.
This initiative was the result of a Resolution passed by the 14th PCGIAP
meeting in Malaysia in 2008 and a desire by many countries in the Asia and
the Pacific region to have a forum to discuss and share land administration
issues, best practice and experiences, in a similar manner to the Working
Party on Land Administration (WPLA) for European countries, organized by the
UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
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The conference organisers Prof.
Ian Williamson (left) and Abbas Rajabifard (right) with
Bas Kok, President of GSDI
and FIG President Stig Enemark. |
Mrs.
Parvin Gharibavaz, President of the Iran Society of
Surveyors and FIG President Stig Enemark. |
Over 410 people from 15 countries and 4 international organisations
attended the forum. The objectives of the forum in Tehran were
- to discuss the role of cadastre to support e-Government strategies
and to share land administration experiences in the Asia and Pacific
region with a focus on re-engineering cadastre to support e-government;
- to discuss wide ranging land administration issues including access
to land and security of tenure, the role of land administration in
supporting sustainable development, the promotion of effective land
markets, poverty reduction, protection of vulnerable groups, e-land
administration, land registration, cadastral surveying and mapping etc;
and
- To continue discussion on the need for an ongoing land
administration forum in the Asia and the Pacific region that was
commenced at the Mongolian and Malaysian forums with a view to preparing
a proposal and resolution to be put before the UN Cartographic
Conference for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok 26-29 October, 2009.
Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of the Assembly of Experts
of the Leadership, provided an excellent and inspiring opening address to
the Forum. The Ayatollah pointed to the guidance in the Koran on land as a
place for location and it is our obligation to harness and exploit land in a
responsible manner. The Ayatollah noted his role as President of the Islamic
Republic of Iran in fostering the cadastre.
The Forum included about a range of sessions with about 25 presentations,
including invited papers from Stig Enemark (FIG), Tony Burns
(Aus), Prof. Bas Kok
(GSDI), Peter Holland (Aus), Jude Wallace (Aus), and Daniel
Steudler (CH).
As an outcome of the Forum a report is presented in a summary of the
presentations, see:
http://www.csdila.unimelb.edu.au/projects/tehran/Report%20on%20LA%20Forum-Tehran%202009.pdf.
Also, a declaration was adopted with a range of recommendations for good
land administration and key issues to assist improvement and management of
land administration systems, see:
http://www.csdila.unimelb.edu.au/projects/tehran/Tehran%20Declaration-24-26%20May%202009.pdf.
Furthermore a special Land Market Management Seminar was held 23 May in
the afternoon to look at international trends and the Land Market in Iran.
The seminar was opened by Dr. Ghalibaf, Mayor of Tehran and the
closing address was presented by Judge Amiri, Deputy Head of
Judiciary power and Head of Iran's Deeds and property Registration
organisation. Papers and presentations are available at the conference
website at:
http://www.csdila.unimelb.edu.au/projects/tehran/pre-seminar.html.
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The ancient city Persepolis (founded about 500 B.C.) at Shiraz in
the southern part of Iran. |
Original carvings in the Persepolis walls. |
The beautiful square in Esfahan in the centre of Iran is the second
largest in the world (after Tiananmen in Beijing).
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President
Enemark with two local surveyors at work in the
Sheikh Lotfollah mosque, Esfahan. |
3 July 2009
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