IGN FI travelled to Addis Ababa to give a training course to the Ethiopian Geospatial Information Institute (EGII) teams on how remote sensing can contribute to land cover projects. This training course falls within the terms of a framework cooperation agreement concluded between CNES/EGII (formerly EMA, the Ethiopian Mapping Agency) and Continue reading
An International Conference on the use of Satellite imagery for sustainable management of territories in Africa took place from 13 to 15 March in Cotonou, Benin, organised by IGN FI and IRD as part of the OSFACO project. This event was attended by representatives of the AFD, the French Embassy, the Continue reading
IGN FI will once again be attending the 20th Annual Conference of the World Bank, which is on the theme of Land and Poverty. The theme of the Conference, which will take place in Washington from March 25-29, is Catalyzing Innovation. The main stakeholders in the field of land governance (funders, Continue reading
IGN FI was part of the French delegation that made the trip from 12 to 15 March to Kenya and Ethiopia on the sidelines of the French President’s official visit to these two countries. In total, about twenty French companies (including BRL engineering, CIM, Captels, Ducrocq, Faure Herman, Enensys, Enersys, Fayat, Continue reading
The kick-off meeting for the Forest and Wildlife Inventory took place on Tuesday 5 March 2019, attended by the Minister for Water and Forests and the international grouping of ONFI / IGN FI / IGN, engaged to provide support to Ivory Coast in carrying out the second inventory of its Continue reading
The contract for the development of the new Land Registry software for the Registrar General’s Department (RGD), the Property Business Registration System (PBRS) officially began Thursday 10th January 2019, at a meeting hosted by the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs. Mr. Maurice Suite, Permanent Secretary, Office of the Continue reading
IGN FI will be attending the Shield Africa International Security and Defense Exhibition in Abidjan from 21 to 24 January 2019. The conference to be held on 21 January is on the theme “Secured and controlled Land, Sea and Air Borders: conditions for the development of Africa”. Christophe DEKEYNE, General Manager of Continue reading
As part of production of around 12,000 topographic maps of the whole Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (around 2 million square km), with a scale of 1:25,000, the «General Commission for Survey (GCS)» awarded IGN FI in September 2017 a project of technical assistance in order to implement the process of quality Continue reading
On 30 November, the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs (AGLA) of Trinidad and Tobago signed a contract with the international consortium IGN FI/ GEOFIT and the University of the West Indies, St Augustine to set up a new automated land registration system. This system is expected to be Continue reading
On 16 July 2018, the Integrated Land Management Information System (ILMIS) was implemented at the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, with the first issue of a new Certificate of Occupancy (title). The new integrated system is a result of a two-year World Continue reading
