THE CHANGING WORLD OF CARTOGRAPHY CONFERENCE, ICA 2005

With the suggestive title "Cartographic Initiatives for a World in Transformation", the International Cartographic Association (ICA) held its 2005 conference in La Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The event brought together more than 2000 delegates who attended the numerous technical presentations, specialized exhibits, and professional and social events that developed in parallel to make this one of the main meetings of the present year.

The PAIGH made its presence felt in several ways. On one hand the attending delegation was headed by the President of the PAIGH, Juan Francisco Lucio Sanmarco, the Secretary General, Santiago Borrero, and by the presidents of the national sections of PAIGH in Argentina, Chile and Perú, Alfredo Stahlschmidt, Luis Alegría Matta and Francisco Vargas Vaca, respectively, all directors of geographical institutes in their countries.

It should be noted that in the frame of the conference attention was given to the scope of the activities that in 2006 will permit the implementation of the agreements subscribed to between the ICA and the PAIGH in 2005. The Secretary General also presided over various sessions and intervened with a paper in the special session on spatial data infrastructures in which he presented various reflections on the manner in which cultural diversity might permit an enrichment of the development of such infrastructures. | Presentation of Sec. Gen. Santiago Borrero |

Ramón Lorenzo, President of the Congress ICA 2005, speaking to the participants during the inaugural ceremony

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