Professional practice, legal aspects and organisational structures
Codes of ethics and applications
Changes to society and ways of working and the corresponding impacts
on professional practice
Community perceptions and understanding about the surveying
profession
Participation in FIG Standards Network and Young Surveyors Network
Mission statement
The mission of Commission 1 is to:
build the capacity of professionals to adapt to changing circumstances:
Changes are affecting the operation of surveying practices, their management
and their professional structures under the challenges of widening
professional activities and a changing world.
create a community of practice to share knowledge about professional
standards and practice challenges and responses by surveying professions.
build links to regional and world structures for surveying professionals
that focus on issues around professional standards and practice.
support professionals in their work by providing them with tools and
approaches to dealing with common practice issues.
develop individuals as professionals and provide opportunities for them
to continue to develop as part of the surveying community.
General
Commission 1 will continue the work on the changing nature of surveying work
and the role of the professional, work at connecting with other like
professional commissions operating in regional organizations, building
supporting knowledge and materials for surveying professionals. The Commission
will continue its work in the Standards and Young Surveyors Networks.
In general the 2011-2014 work plan aims to:
Share understanding on the challenges facing professional practice in a
changing environment of work and within a changing world.
Provide opportunities for an ongoing exchange of information around
issues on professional standards and practice using new technologies.
Share knowledge of professional practices around ethical delivery of
services.
Connect with other groups in member associations that promote and
develop surveying professional standards and practice to share knowledge and
develop possible joint activities.
Work with Commission 2 to develop ongoing pathways of professional
education that support the concept of ongoing professional development.
Promote cooperative development opportunities and the development of new
initiatives by growing knowledge from working together with other
commissions on the current and future role of the surveyor, the definition
of the surveyor as well as the age-structure within the profession.
Build activities with world wide standards development and certification
through the Standards Network.
Build activities with Young Surveyors through the active support of the
Young Surveyors Network.
The Commission will host the inter-commission working group to consider the
current and future role of the surveyor, the definition of the surveyor as well
as the age-structure within the profession. The other joint working group hosted
by Commission 1 will study the technological, methodological and practical as
well as legal aspects on the demarcation of international boundaries.
Working Group 1.1 - Changing Nature of Work and the Role of a
Surveyor (Joint Working Group with Commission 2 )
Policy issues
To consider the current and future role of the surveyor
To review the definition of the surveyor
To study the age-structure within the surveying profession and prepare
proposals how to response to the competition to market the profession for
new generations
Surveying professionals work in a variety of work environments and are
required to respond to constant changes in how they deliver services. This
creates challenges to them in how they practice and challenges on how to
adapt to change. Identifying and sharing new ways of working from around the
world will provide practical examples of ways others have successfully
adapted and will build a set of case studies on change.
Co-chairs
Ms. Winnie Shiu,
HONG KONG SAR, CHINA,
e-mail: mswinnieshiu[at]gmail.com
Mr. Curtis Sumner,
USA.
E-mail: Curtis.Sumner[at]acsm.net
Specific Project(s)
To consider the current and future role of the surveyor
To review the definition of the surveyor
Age structural survey within FIG (implemented by Cecilia Lindén, Sweden)
Prepare proposals how to response to the competition to market the
profession for new generations
Workshop(s)
Participation in FIG Working Weeks and other major FIG events with
dedicated technical sessions and/or workshops as appropriate.
Publications
To be determined
Timetable
Final report at the FIG Congress 2014
Working Group 1.2 - Regulation Approaches that Provide Secure
Tenure
Policy issues
Regulation is a way to develop secure land tenure and through this the
alleviation of poverty through one of the basic principles of a secure tenure
– integrity of the system and the control (elimination) of corruption.
Reviewing practice around the world provides an opportunity for
professionals to share ideas on what has been done in various countries,
consider how it was done and learn from others experiences of implementing
regulation..
Chair
Mr Brian Coutts,
NEW ZEALAND,
e-mail: brian.coutts[at]otago.ac.nz
Specific Projects
Develop case studies on how countries operate legislative systems that
monitor the surveying profession.
Review aspects of regulation, survey controls systems, the role of
educational and professional development systems to develop practice
examples.
Workshop(s)
Participation in FIG Working Weeks and other major FIG events with
dedicated technical sessions and/or workshops as appropriate.
Publication(s)
Publish case studies on regulation approaches around the world.
Timetable
Final report at the FIG Congress 2014
Working Group 1.3 - Community of Practice on Professional
Standards and Practice
Policy issues
All professionals face professional standards and practice challenges
and find ways to respond effectively. Anyone facing a problem or issues can
be certain that somewhere in the world, someone has solved a problem that
might be very similar. Developing a way to share practice issues using Web 2
technologies would provide a way for surveying professionals to develop a
place where they can share the knowledge of others in dealing with current
issues. This will be supplemented by professional standards and practice
issues workshops held at each Working Week and the Regional Conference.
Through this regular updates on emerging issues around the world can be
obtained.
There are regional and other structures in place where members also
interested and committed to issues around professional standards and
practice for surveying professionals. These groups develop ideas and produce
papers and possibly publications that are part of a world wide knowledge
bank that FIG could access. Building links to regional and world structures
for surveying professionals that focus on issues around professional
standards and practice will expand our understanding and access to knowledge
and resources.
Participation in FIG Working Weeks and
other major FIG events with dedicated technical sessions and/or workshops as
appropriate. Test online communication for out-reaching surveyors that do
not normally attend FIG events.
Publications
FIG guidelines for member associations on the use of social media.
Timetable
Final report at the FIG Congress 2014
Commission Officers
Commission Chair and Initial Co-Chair of WG 1.5
Ms. Leonie
Newnham
Manager, Innovation
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Level 13, 8 Nicholson Street
East Melbourne, Vic. 3002
Victoria
AUSTRALIA
Tel. + 61 3 9637 8651
Fax + 61 3 9637 9558
Email:
Leonie.Newnham[at]dse.vic.gov.au
Vice Chair of Administration and Communication
Ms. Robyn McCutcheon
VMAS Project Manager
Spatial Information Infrastructure
Information Services Branch
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Level13, 570 Bourke Street,
Melbourne,Vic,3000
AUSTRALIA
Tel. + 61 3 8636 2346
Email
robyn.mccutcheon[at]dse.vic.gov.au
Vice Chair and Co-Chair of WG 1.1 - Changing Nature of Work and the Role of
a Surveyor
Curtis Sumner
Executive Director
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
6 Montgomery Village Av #403
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
USA
Tel + 1 240 632 9716
Fax + 1 240 632 1321
Email: Curtis.Sumner[at]acsm.net
Vice Chair and Co-Chair of WG 1.1 - Changing Nature of Work and the Role of
a Surveyor
Winnie Shiu
Senior Land Surveyor/Mapping Information Services
Survey and Mapping Office
Lands Department
The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors
23/F North Point Government Offices
333 Java Road
North Point
HONG KONG SAR, CHINA
Tel. + 852 22313443
Fax + 852 28778520
E-mail: wshiu[at]hkis.org.hk
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 1.2 - Regulation Approaches that Provide Secure
Tenure
Brian J Coutts
Senior Lecturer
School of Surveying
University of Otago
P O Box 56
Dunedin
NEW ZEALAND
Tel: +64 3479 7609
Fax: +64 3479 7689
Email: brian.coutts[at]otago.ac.nz
Vice Chair and Chair of WG 1.3 - Community of Practice on Professional
Standards and Practice
Stephen Djaba (to be confirmed)
Geotech Systems Ltd
P.O. Box GP 14727
Accra
GHANA
E-mail: Stephen[at]ghana.com
Tel + 233 21 245945 (work)
Tel + 233 21 766819 (home)
Fax + 233 21 236475
Vice Chair and Co-Chair of WG 1.4 - International Boundary Settlement and
Demarcation
Dr. Haim Srebro
Survey of Israel
1 Lincoln st.
Tel-Aviv
ISRAEL
Tel. + 972 3 6231901
Fax + 972 3 5610866
E-mail: haim[at]mapi.gov.il
Web site: www.mapi.gov.il
Vice Chair and Co-Chair of WG 1.4 - International Boundary Settlement and
Demarcation
Dr. Bill Robertson
NEW ZEALAND
E-mail: billrobertson[at]xtra.co.nz
Chair of WG 1.5 - Social Media and Surveyors (Joint Working Group with the
Young Surveyors Network)
Ms.
Leonie Newnham
Manager, Innovation
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Level 13, 8 Nicholson Street
East Melbourne, Vic. 3002
Victoria
AUSTRALIA
Tel. + 61 3 9637 8651
Fax + 61 3 9637 9558
Email:
Leonie.Newnham[at]dse.vic.gov.au
Ms. Leonie Newnhamn, Chair of Commission 1.
