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Conference Proceedings, Monday 16 July

Introduction

Sallie White
Conference Manager
Welcome, CC2003 Aide Memoire – progress report
Vanessa Lawrence
Conference Chair
Keynote Speaker
Is the future mapped out?
Air Marshall Stuart Peach CBE, Chief, Defence Intelligence
        
Plenary
Dissolving borders – from national mapping to regional and global SDIs?
Organised by Advisory Board members from Africa and the Middle East
Chair:
Mohammed Al Zaffin, Director of GIS Centre, Dubai Municipality, UAE
 
Introduction to the theme
 
Jean Dotse, Past Director of Surveys, Ghana
The role of UNECA in establishing AFREF and SDIs in Africa
 
Dozie Ezigbalike, Chief, Geo-Information Systems Section, UN Economic Commission for Africa
The African Reference Frame (AFREF) Initiative
 
Wilber Ottichilo, Director General, Regional Centre for Mapping for Regional Development
The Global Map Experience: Towards and Operational Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
Fraser Taylor, Chair, International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
Questions & answers
 
Workshops
Land Administration for the 21st Century
An exploration of key developments in cadastre and land administration, with case studies from four continents
Chair:
Andrew Trigg, Chief Geographic Information Officer,
Land Registry of England and Wales
 
Contributors:
Gavin Adlington, Senior Land Administration Specialist, World Bank
Dr David Cowen, Co Director, Center for GIS and Remote Sensing, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, USA
Rui Pedro Julião, Deputy Director General, Portuguese Geographic Institute
Canon Andrus Ukaejiofo, Coordinator, FELIS/NTDF, Department of Lands and Housing, Nigeria.
 Presentations:
Rapporteur notes:
Models for geospatial rights management
Manage and protect your Intellectual Property Rights from a trust, legal and technology perspective
Chair: Graham Vowles, Principal Consultant, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Contributors:
Harlan Onsrud, Interim Executive Director, GSDI Association
Dr Roland Wagner, SDI Architect, University of Münster, Germany
Caroline Wilson, Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK
 Presentations:
Rapporteur notes:
Film: An Inconvenient Truth 
Discussion facilitated by Hugh Buchanan, External Relations Manager (Scotland), Ordnance Survey.
Imagery matters
Provision and use of imagery from mapping agencies to global information providers – exploring the implications
Chair: Peter ter Haar, Director of Products, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Contributors:
Matt Foote, Executive Director, Catastrophe Management, Willis Analytics & Solutions
Rui Pedro Julião, Deputy Director General, Portuguese Geographic Institute
Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist, Google
 Presentation
Rapporteur notes:
Winning support from key stakeholders
Will consider the experience of participants and examine generic tools for effective engagement
Chair:
David Lovell, Programme Manager, EuroGeographics
Contributors:
Daniele Rizzi, EUROSTAT
Ulf Sandgren, International Coordinator National Land Survey of Sweden
 Presentations:

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