beautiful venue, the lovely weather of Rhodes and mostly to the 
extremly careful work prof. J Badekas has done. We all hope that 
something really exceptionally useful will finally come out of this 
meeting 
Having a brief look at the past, we can say that during the 
meeting in Krakow the emphasis was on history and something positive 
that come out was the endeavour which has not yet completely finished, 
in Mains we had a new orientation in information retrieval, in Badayri 
the meeting was centered on technical cooperation, and finally in 
Rhodes the meeting is focused principally on education. 
Comparatively speaking a good propotrion of possible 
international patricipants has registered, arrived and is attending the 
meeting. This is a vast improvement and a credit to the President of 
the Commission. On the other hand it is really a shame that only two out 
of ten people responsible- for the WGs, and Intercommission Groups are 
here, This is not a new problem, so there is no need to overemphasise 
it., but 1 am of the oppimon that when somebody accepts the 
responsibility of a WG, one has to attend the Symposium as well. 
Since there was little contribution from the WGs the meeting 
is concentrated into papers. Altogether 26 papers on education out of 
48 registered, some of them invited, were presented and we may say it 
was a representative sample of what needed to be discussed. The ratio 
is not at all satisfactory and we’ve got to think of it seriously for the 
Congress in Washington, because only when one .is determined to be 
there does one deserve to be included in the list. As far as WGs are 
conserned, f would like to mention some individual suggestions. For 
example, talking about the WG on education we can tell from the papers 
that there is lot of interest in the field yet there is disinterest by the 
WG chairman. So the question right now is, is there a possibility to 
combine the activities of WG 2 and 7 into one and to find one 
responsible chairman for it? 
Something has to be done about Com VI WG 4 on economics, 
too, where it was mentioned that there was an extensive expectation 
in the field, yet nothing significant came of it, due to the fact that the 
chairman is too busy with other activities in a private industry in 
Switzerland, and also something has to be done with WG 5 and 6 to 
overcome the usual difficulties with French goverment. An other thing 
that has to be mentioned here is the fact that today, due to the total 
overlap in methods used in Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, 
Cartography and Surveying, for example the use of the same computers, 
total stations, digital recording techniques, raster scanning and so on, 
there is a great task for an initiative by ISPRS and Com VJ_ to get 
together with the representatives of 1USM to do joint work. Maybe in 
Washington the representatives of FIG and ICA will do some joint work.