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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING 
Commission VI 
Symposium held in Mainz, FR Germany, 22 - 25 September 1982 
  
Proceedings Part 9: TECHNICAL COOPERATION 
DISCUSSION 
President Com. VI Hothmer (FR Germany) : Mr. Funso Olujohungbe, Cartography 
and Remote Sensing Unit, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) 
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, had agreed to chair this session. Last night I 
received a cable regretting his inability to be here today. I forward here- 
with to the audience his sincere wishes for a successful Symposium. 
Working Group VI - 7 has been established with two task definitions : 
1. Preparing relevant information on policies and procedures regarding 
multilateral and available bilateral Technical Cooperation in Surveying 
and Mapping including Remote Sensing, aimed at benefitting colleagues 
in developing countries; 
2. Exploring feasibilities for partnerships to support developing nations 
and elaborating on solutions to meet respective requirements. 
Dr. Per Olof Fagerholm (Sweden), formerly Secretary General ISP, and formerly 
UNDP Project Manager, had been appointed WG Chairman in October 1980. He 
appointed the following specialists as co-workers : 
Mr. Jean Gateaud, IGN Paris, France 
Mr. Funso Olujohungbe, UN - ECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 
Dr. Jürgen Hothmer, FR Germany 
Dr. Zbigniew Sitek, Cracow, Poland 
Mr. Jan Visser, ITC Enschede, Netherlands, 
Dr. Caesar Voüte, ITC Enschede, Netherlands 
Mr. Sven Wijk, Helsinki, Finnland. 
After a promising start of the Working Group, Dr. Fagerholm retired from 
government service and withdrew most recently also from his engagement in 
WG VI -7. Hence, the Symposium is requested to nominate a new Chairman. 
But perhaps you may also wish to cancel the Working Group. 
Mr. Verdin (Belgium) : Could you perhaps provide some background information 
on the task definition. 
Dr. Hothmer (FR Germany) : The task definition originates to some extend on 
my own experience as Technical Adviser Surveying and Mapping at United Nations 
Headquarter, and from my government service within bilateral Technical 
Cooperation. 
Colleagues in developing countries work hard for years to obtain a UNDP or 
a bilateral project of technical cooperation, and sometimes they then have 
to learn everything was in vain as they were not sufficiently familiar with 
relevant policies and procedures. Compiling a little booklet with a proper 
review of existing possibilities and rules will certainly facilitate the 
work of these colleagues. In fact, UNDP has this kind of information compiled 
for several fields, however unfortunately not for Surveying and Mapping 
including Remote Sensing. And this tyoe of review does not exist neither for 
the various possibilities of bilateral cooperation. That is the background 
for the first part of the task definition. 
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