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11 March, 2003
Swedesurvey awarded new Russian contract |
| Swedesurvey has been awarded a contract
to conduct training in Land Cadastre and Registration of
Rights within the framework of the World Bank LARIS project.
The training will be held in Sweden in late spring or autumn
2003. |
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4 March, 2003
Visit from Mongolia |
Dr Batsukh is handing over a painting
to Mr Sture Pettersson.
Mrs Gertrud Wiking, the Chief Librarian
shows maps from the old archives to the Mongolian guests. |
This week Swedesurvey and Lantmäteriet, The National
Land Survey of Sweden are pleased to welcome some people
from Mongolia. They are Prof. Dr. Sh. Batsukh,
Director of Administration of Land Affairs, Geodesy and
Cartography, Mr B. Tumurkhuyag, Director
of Capital City´s Land Relation, Geodesy and Cartography
Agency Department, Mrs Shagdarsuren Enkhtsetseg,
Project Director and Director of Land Information Center
and Mr Batbileg Chinzorig, Interpreter
and Project administrator.
A study visit of the Swedish Land Administration System and discussions
about future co-operation between Mongolia and Sweden will take place during
this week. |
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28 February, 2003
Recent visit from Indonesia |
The Indonesian study group at Gävle Tax Board |
Heads and experts from Badan Pertanahan National (BPN),
the Indonesian National Land Agency, taking part in the
INLA-project visit Sweden and France during two weeks.
The INLA-project is a EU-financed project mainly dealing
with development of land valuation methods in Indonesia.
The European partners are IGN France and Swedesurvey. In
Sweden the programme has included land policy and legislation,
the land information system, ArcCadastre, methods and systems
for property taxation, property formation and compensation.
The main part of the project take place in Indonesia where
there will be a pilot project concerning land valuation
methods. |
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17 February, 2003
Swedesurvey is hosting Viet Nam delegation |
Mr Mai Ai -Truc, Minister of Environment, Viet
Nam, Mr Joakim Ollén, Director General, Lantmäteriet,
The National Land Survey of Sweden, Mr Nguyen Dinh
Bong, Director, Department of Finance and Planning,
Viet Nam.
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Mr Mai Ai Truc, newly appointed Minister
of Environment, Viet Nam, is together with a delegation
consisting of 10 persons visiting Swedesurvey and Lantmäteriet,
The National Land Survey of Sweden in Gävle today.
During the stay in Sweden the delegation will also meet with the Swedish
Minister of Environment Ms Lena Sommestad in Stockholm, the
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the National Chemicals Inspectorate
and Sida.
The purpose of the visit is to be acquainted with Swedish land administration
and Swedish environmental issues. The Minister will also discuss forms for
a continued co-operation between Sweden and Viet Nam in regard to environmental
issues as well as land administration. |
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14 February, 2003
Swedesurvey assistance to Buffalo City Municipality |
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Swedesurvey has been given the responsibility to assist
Buffalo City Municipality, South Africa, in building a
comprehensive GIS.
Within the project a long needed computer-training lab has now been established.
The training took off January 13 and to date about 100 staff out of approximately
700 delegates who qualify for the training (staff who have access to computer
equipment and who are permanent employees) has participated in one day GIS
End User Training.
The focus of the one-day training is to give all Buffalo City Municipality
employees the opportunity to get a good understanding of the IT and GIS facilities
available including:
• Standards to be applied to documents.
• Differences between network and local drives.
• The correct way to structure folders.
• Data sharing.
• Procedures for fault reporting.
• Use of the corporate E-Mail
• Introduction to the Intranet.
• Use of the on-line telephone directory.
• Introduction to GISTEX
• Introduction to the IDP Home Page
• Finally there is an introduction to GIS with basic exercises, which outline
the usefulness of GIS for management.
For more information, please contact the Project Leader Christer
Kjörneberg. |
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10 February, 2003
Launching of the Botswana National Atlas - the PC-version |
Åke Finnström (Marketing Director of Swedesurvey), Dr
Margret Nasha (Minister for Ministry of Lands and
Housing), Bryson Morebodi, (Director of DSM), Birgitta
Karlström Dorph (the Swedish Ambassador) |
The PC-version of the Botswana National Atlas was launched
at a gathering at Gaborone International Convention Centre
in the evening 30 January, 2003 by the Minister for Ministry
of Lands and Housing, Dr. Margret Nasha. The production
of the PC-Atlas is a co-operation between Department of
Surveys and Mapping (DSM), Botswana and Swedesurvey AB. |
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5 February, 2003
Swedesurvey hosting Master students from Eastern
Europe and Central Asia, 4-7 February |
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Thirty students from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova,
Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan are taking their Master's
degree in Land Management at the Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH) in Stockholm.
Staff members from Swedesurvey conduct parts of their lectures and between
4 and 7 February the students are visiting Swedesurvey and the Headquarter
of the National Land Survey of Sweden in Gävle. The objectives with the visit
is to gain experience on what are the responsibilities and services that rest
on the National Land Survey and how we operate to fulfil the needs and requirements
from the customers. The students also visit the old map archive to compare
old traditional mapping with state-of-the-art techniques, using ArcCadastre.
In addition, they visit the municipality of Gävle, a bank and a real estate
agency to get an insight in their needs of having easy access to the transparent
property information, both geographical and semantic, hold by the National
Land Survey.
The educational programme is carried out annually since 1996. Swedesurvey
and KTH has together with the universities and land administration organisations
in the respective country established a tight co-operation to support long-term
sustainability and capacity development at both the universities and the land
administration organisations. This is now beginning to bear fruit, exemplified
by the large number of graduated students acquiring high-ranked positions in
their respective motherland. |
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5 February, 2003
Study visit from Belarus |
Since 1998 Swedesurvey is carrying out
a project in co-operation with the Belarusian Republican
Association "Land Reform", Minsk. The project is financed
by Sida (Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency). The objectives of the project are to facilitate
the development of a Real Property Market.
This week 8 persons representing the Belarusian Duma, the National Land
Survey of Belarus (Goscomzem) are visiting Swedesurvey and the National Land
Survey to get more information about the Swedish Land Information System. |
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7 January , 2003
Tender in Guatemala submitted |
Scenery from Guatemala, 2002. |
A couple of sceneries from the Petén province
in Guatemala where Swedesurvey together with Finnmap, Finland
and IGN, France submitted a tender for Mapping, Surveying
and Tenure Clarification. A team from the Swedesurvey consortium
finalized the tender on location during a couple of weeks
in December 2002. |
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