In October 2014 IGN FI was awarded a contract to carry out digital mapping of the entire country of Benin at a scale of 1:50,000. Apart from a very few exceptions, the cartography of Benin had never been updated since the country gained its independence. The project to update Benin’s national Continue reading
The French Institute in Benin is organising an exhibition devoted to the Tatas, the remarkable architectural heritage of North Benin, from April 16th to 30th 2019. This exhibition comprising photographs and mapping of the tourism sites is compiled from data gathered and produced as part of the project to modernize Continue reading
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
The 7th edition of the largest international meeting of Africa’s private sector, the Africa CEO Forum, will be held on March 25 and 26 in Kigali, Rwanda. Each year, the Africa CEO Forum brings together 1,500 leading decision-makers from industry, finance and politics, coming from more than 70 countries to 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
