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September 30, 2004 International Seminar, September 29 – October 1, 2004 in Chisinau, Moldavia, on "Implementing the First Cadastre Project in Moldova: Achievements and prospects"
Click image for larger version.	Swedesurvey is represented by the Managing Director Sture Pettersson along with several Swedish consultants. The World Bank and Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) are also participating in the seminar. The 70 participants represent among others the following countries: Moldavia, Belarus, Lithuania, Rumania, Turkey, Ukraine and Sweden.

September 6, 2004 Course start
Click image for larger version.	Swedesurvey welcomes our foreign guests to the six week course Land Administration and Geographical Information September 6 – October 15. The object of this course is to improve the development and management of the land administration, geographical information systems and to exchange experience and establish contact networks. The 29 participants represent the following countries: Bhutan, Botswana, China, Eritrea, Ghana, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Mongolia, Namibia, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda & Vietnam.

September 3, 2004 Swedesurvey will prepare a GIS Cookbook in the Philippines
The contract is signed by Mr. Romulo Q. Fabul, CEO of the Board on 18 August 2004. Present on the photo are also Mrs. Emma Ulep, the Project Manager, HLURB, and Mr. Christer Kjörneberg, the Project Technical Adviser, Swedesurvey.	Following a long tradition of successful projects implementations in the Philippines, it is now time for Swedesurvey to assist the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board, HLURB, to prepare Guidelines on how to use Geographic Information System in comprehensive land use planning and land use monitoring at local government level. HLURB is the sole national government agency tasked as the planning, regulatory and quasi-judicial body for land use development and real estate regulation. The project is sponsored by the **Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency(Sida)**. The project nicknamed as ‘the GIS Cookbook for LGUs’, will be running for two years and main activities are to promote coordination, uniform geodata standards and metadata specification between central and local levels; develop land use planning and management tools in the decision-making process at municipal level using GIS; equip HLURB Central and Regional Planning Staff in order to improve its ability to assist LGUs in its Land Use Planning Activities using GIS.

September 2, 2004 New premises
Swedesurvey has moved into new premises. Our new visiting address is now Lantmäterigatan 2A, Gävle.