Opening address
Cheung, Mr.
The Seventh UN Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas, held in New York in January 2001, passed a resolution that the UN with support of the Permanent Committee for Spatial Data Infrastructures for the Americas (PC-IDEA) and the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) arrange an inter- regional workshop, to be hosted by Mexico. The resolution, in short, aims to determine policies and programs for education, training and professional capacity building that will ensure the development of appropriate land administration systems and associated spatial data infrastructuress and that member States develop appropriate institutional, legal and technical processes to integrate land administration and topographic mapping programs within the context of a wider national spatial data infrastructuree. The breadth of this resolution demonstrates the broad reach and importance of determining policies and programmes for educational, training and professional capacity-building that will ensure the development of appropriate land administration systems and associated spatial data infrastructures.
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