FIG Commissions

Title

Professional Standards and Practice

Prof. John Parker, Chairperson of Commission 1

• Ethical principles and codes of professional conduct
• Guidelines relating to the provision of services
• Standards of business practice and total quality management
• Changes affecting the operation of surveying practices, their management and their professional structures
• International legislation affecting the profession
• The role of surveyors in the public sector.

Facilitate and encourage delegates from member associations to participate in the activities of the commission which include promoting the aims and objectives of FIG and in particular professional standards; ethical principles and codes of professional conduct; business practice; provision of services; management issues; and legislation affecting the profession.

Commission web site

Title

Organisation

Policy issues

• Public sector organisational structures that cover FIG activities, including the management philosophy behind the structures and the method of providing services and the role of the private sector.
• Outsourcing/contracting out of government services.

Chair

Klaus Rürup (Germany).

Specific projects

• Documentation showing different organisational structures of various governments around the world.
• Paper addressing the management philosophy, including the role of the private sector in the provision of services.
• Paper on outsourcing/contracting out of government services.
• Draft clauses for possible inclusion in contracts relating to the contracting out of services with respect to management performance matters.

Workshop(s)

n/a

Publication(s)

See Specific projects – papers to be presented at FIG working weeks and on the commission home page.

Timetable

Conclude work by the time of the FIG working week, 2000.

Beneficiaries

International agencies, governments - particularly in developing countries and countries in economic transition.

Title

Business practices

Policy issues

• The importance of ethics in business.
• The impact of information technology on business practice.
• The provision of quality services and products, in particular the role that total quality management, quality assurance and quality awards criteria can play in the management of an organisation.
• ISO standards that may affect the management and business practices of surveying organisations.

Chair

Iain Greenway (UK).

Specific projects

• Promote the importance of ethics in business.
• Monitor and provide constructive comment on (i) the impact of information technology on business practice and (ii) relevant ISO standards (in collaboration with the FIG task force on standards).
• Research and promote all aspects of quality relevant to the management of surveying businesses.
• Produce a series of papers and/or reports to bring the foregoing issues to the attention of member associations and for discussion at FIG working weeks.

Workshop(s)

n/a

Publication(s)

See Specific projects, which may eventuate in an FIG publication.

Timetable

Conclude work by the time of the FIG working week, 2001.

Beneficiaries

Surveying businesses.

Title

Internet site

Policy issues

• Develop a commission home page, to disseminate news about its activities and provide access to various data bases of information.

Chair

Stephen Djaba (Ghana).

Specific projects

• Create a user friendly easily accessible site with links to and from other FIG home pages.
• Thereafter maintain and develop the commission home page, linkages to other relevant home pages and new pages or other networks for special projects, to keep commission delegates, other FIG members, users of surveying services and the public involved in and informed about the work of the commission.

Workshop(s)

n/a

Publication(s)

n/a

Timetable

Create site during 1999.

Beneficiaries

International agencies, member associations, surveying businesses, individuals.

Professional practice (individual), covering

• assistance to the FIG task force on under represented groups in surveying
• personal professional development, in collaboration with the Commission 2 working group on CPD and management skills.

Beneficiaries

Individual surveyors.

Policy issues

Establish and chair a joint working group with Commission 3 on access to relevant data with particular regard to the implications of intellectual property and copyright (including the WTO’s work on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS)).

Chair

Chris Hoogsteden (New Zealand).

Chair
Prof. John Parker
PO Box 110
Brunswick East
Victoria 3057
Australia
Email park106@dcsi.net.au
Tel + 61 3 9387 1964
Fax + 61 3 9381 1378

Vice-Chair
Klaus Rürup
Droste-Hülshoff Strasse 8
D-46236 Bottrop
Germany
Email klaus.ruerup@t-online.de
Tel + 49 20 411 8830
Fax + 49 20 411 88316

Secretary
Paul Harcombe
Land Information Centre
PO Box 143
Bathurst, NSW 2795
Australia
Email harcombe@lic.gov.au
Tel + 61 2 6332 8208
Fax + 61 2 6332 8217

Working Group 1.1

Chair
Klaus Rürup
Droste-Hülshoff Strasse 8
D-46236 Bottrop
Germany
Email klaus.ruerup@t-online.de
Tel + 49 20 411 8830
Fax + 49 20 411 88316

Working Group 1.2

Chair
Mr. Iain Greenway
13 Hazelbury Park
Clonee
Dublin 15
IRELAND
E-mail: iain.greenway@btinternet.com
Tel. + 353 1 802 5316
Fax + 353 1 820 4156

Working Group 1.3

Chair
Stephen Djaba
Geotech Systems Ltd
P.O. Box GP 14727
Accra
Ghana
Email Stephen@ghana.com
Tel + 233 21 245945 (work)
Tel + 233 21 766819 (home)
Fax + 233 21 236475

Joint Working Group with Commission 3 on access to relevant data

Chair
Prof. Chris Hoogsteden
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand
Email hoogstc@albers.otago.ac.nz
Tel + 64 3 479 7605
Fax + 64 3 479 7586

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