Article of the Month in 2006

FIG publishes each month the Article of the Month. This is a high-level paper focusing on interesting topic to all surveyors. This article can be picked up from an FIG conference or another event or it can be a paper written directly for this purpose.

• December 2006 - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, FIG President: Changing FIG – Model for a Changing World. Farewell speech at the Handover Ceremony on 2 December 2006 in Münster, Germany.
   
• November 2006 - Mr. Keith Clifford Bell, World Bank: World Bank Support for Land Administration and Management: Responding to the Challenges of the Millennium Development Goals. This paper is written and presented at the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich, Germany, 8-13 October 2006.
   
• October 2006 - Ms. Nsame Nsemiwe, Zambia: Gender Dimensions of Land Customary Inheritance under Customary Tenure in Zambia. This paper is based on the paper written and presented by Ms. Nsame Nsemiwe at the XXIII FIG Congress in Munich, Germany, 8-13 October 2006. The FIG Council has decided to award the Congress Prize to two papers presented by Ms. Nsemiwe. The other paper is "Negotiating the Interface: Struggles Involved in the Upgrading of Informal Settlements -a Case Study of Nkandabwe in Kitwe, Zambia".
   
• September 2006 - Dr. Michael Sutherland and Dr. Sue Nichols, Canada: Issues in the Governance of Marine Spaces. This paper is the introduction chapter of FIG publication no. 36 “Administering Marine Spaces: International issues”. This publication is result of FIG Commissions 4 & 7 Working Group 4.3 and published by FIG in September 2006.
   
• August 2006 - Ms. Gabriele Dasse, Germany: Enhancing the Representation of Under-Represented Groups in FIG. This paper is based on the FIG publication no 35 ”Enhancing the Representation of Under-represented Groups in FIG”, Copenhagen 2006.
   
• July 2006 - Mr. Gerhard Muggenhuber, Austria and Mr. Rob Mahoney, United Kingdom -  Changing Minds in an Evolving Society
   
• June 2006 - Mr. Markku Markkula, Finland - Creating Favourable Conditions for Knowledge Society through Knowledge Management, eGovernance and eLearning. This paper has been prepared and presented as a keynote presentation at the FIG Workshop on e-Governance, Knowledge Management and e-Learning in Budapest, Hungary, 27-29 April 2006. This workshop was co-organised by FIG Commissions 2,3 and 7.
   
• May 2006 - Chief Kumbun-Naa Yiri II, Ghana - Customary Lands Administration and Good Governance – The State and the Traditional Rulers Interface. This paper has been written for the 5th FIG Regional Conference – Promoting Land Administration and Good Governance in Accra, Ghana, March 8-11, 2006.
   
• April 2006 - Surv. (Chief) Innocent N. Egbuh, Nigeria - Charting Nigerian Waters for Safer Navigation. This article has been presented at the 5th FIG Regional Conference – Promoting Land Administration and Good Governance to be held in Accra, Ghana, March 8-11, 2006.
   
• March 2006 - Dr. Babette Wehrmann, Germany - Cadastre in Itself Won’t Solve the Problem: The Role of Institutional Change and Psychological Motivations in Land Conflicts – Cases from Africa. This article has been prepared for the 5th FIG Regional Conference - Promoting Land Administration and Good Governance, Accra, Ghana, March 8-11, 2006.
   
• February 2006 - Dr. Isaac Bonsu Karikari, Ghana - Ghana’s Land Administration Project (LAP) and Land Information Systems (LIS) Implementation: The Issues. This article has been prepared for the 5th FIG Regional Conference - Promoting Land Administration and Good Governance to be held in Accra, Ghana, March 8-11, 2006.
   
• January 2006 - Tony S. Haroen, Chairul B. Achmad and Wenny Rusmawar, Indonesia - Cadastral Reconstruction in Aceh: A Newborn Concept of Adjudication. This article has been presented for the first time at the South East Survey Congress in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, 21-25 November 2005. It is published as the Article of the Month to show respect to the memory of the victims of the tsunami disaster in December 2005.