The IFFN project, led by ONF International in a joint venture with the IGN and IGN FI, officially kicked off in January 2019. The second Steering Committee meeting took place on 30 October in Abidjan, when a progress update on activities relating to training and the inventory was presented. The evolution Continue reading
The IGN FI/ BRLi consortium has been awarded the regional contract to assess hazards, vulnerabilities and risks in the Member States of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the international organisation promoting the economic, social and cultural development of the following Member States: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Continue reading
A consortium made up of IGN FI/ GEOFIT/ GEODESIGN & BIZ has been awarded the delegated project management contract in Cameroon to carry out the activities comprising module 1 of the Project entitled “Modernisation of Land Registration and Estates”. The project, costing 1,465,480€ net of tax, is being financed by Continue reading
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) held a conference on “Property Tax Reform and Domestic Resource Mobilization in Asia and the Pacific region” at Manila on 16-18 September 2019. The conference objective was to support strategies for improving the revenue performance of property taxes in ADB developing member countries in the Continue reading
At the beginning of January 2019, Ivory Coast officially launched its National Forest and Wildlife Inventory (IFFN), and presented it at a kick-off workshop in early March 2019. This project, for which the Contracting Authority is the Ministry for Water and Forests (MINEF), is intended to take two years and Continue reading
The OSFACO project that aims to improve knowledge of past and present dynamics in terms of land use and land use change in several Central and Western African countries using spatial observation tools, has just published its newsletter n°10. This newsletter includes more specifically the publication of the proceedings of the Continue reading
A workshop entitled “UGRF: The new Ugandan GNSS CORS network” was held in Jinja, in the south east of Uganda, on 24 May, in order to inform the project beneficiaries that the 12 permanent stations set up by the project are now operational, and that the website providing access to Continue reading
African borders will be in the limelight this Friday, 7 June, on African Borders Day. The aim of this day, which will be observed in several countries throughout the continent, is to raise awareness among African Union member states and their populations of the political, economic and human stakes represented Continue reading
As part of the development of national expertise in the field of forest monitoring, the Marien N’GOUABI University of Brazzaville organizes in partnership with IGN FI, the US Forest Service (USFS), and the University of Paris- East-Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM) a training workshop on radar remote sensing from 6 to 10 May Continue reading
An international consortium of public agencies: the British Geological Survey (U.K.); IHCantabria (Spain) and Geological Survey Ireland (Ireland) and companies: ARGANS (U.K.); isardSAT (Spain); adwäisEO (Luxembourg); Arctus (Canada) and IGN FI (France) – led by ARGANS (UK), has won a major project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop Continue reading
