ICA meeting

ICA Executive Committee meeting - Budapest, 2-4 May 2003

Participants

Name	ICA function	Country
Bengt Rystedt	president	Sweden
Ferjan Ormeling	secretary general	Netherlands
Milan Konecny	vice president	Czech Rep.
Elri Liebenberg	vice president	South Africa
Robert McMaster	vice president	USA
Takashi Morita	vice president	Japan
Kirsi Virrantaus	vice president	Finland
Alberta Auringer Wood	vice president	Canada
Michael Wood	past president	UK

	chairmen
Patrick Wiegand	Cartography and Children	UK
László Zentai	Education and Training	Hungary
Eva K.-Blum	Gender and Cartography	Poland
Christopher Board	History of Cartography	UK
Sjef van der Steen	Map Production	Netherlands
Jonathan Rowell	Maps and Graphics for Blind	UK
Georg Gartner	Maps and the Internet	Austria
Ron Furness	Marine Cartography	Australia
Lorenz Hurni	Mountain Cartography	Switzerland
Timothy Trainor	National and Regional Atlases	USA
Kira Shingareva	Planetary Cartography	Russia
Harold Moellering	Spatial Data Standards	USA
Alexander Wolodtschenko	Theoretical Cartography	Germany
Menno-Jan Kraak	Visualization & Virtual Environments	Netherlands
Ammatzia Peled	WG on Incremental Updating	Israel
William Cartwright		Australia

The programme (plan)

1 May, Thursday HOLIDAY	Arrival day Time for informal meetings and consultations.
2 May, Friday HOLIDAY	08.30-09.00 Introduction (President, SG) 09.00-12.00 Commission reports of the period 1999-2003 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00-14.00 Planned commissions 2003-2007. Report of proposals handed in (SG), New GIS Commissions (Kirsi Virrantaus) 14.00-17.00 Joint commission activities. Grouping of commissions. Brake-out in possible groups for improving interaction, and report from brake-out sessions 17.00 Visit the Map Collection of the National Széchényi Library 19.30 Dinner (the participants are invited by the Rector of Eötvös University)
3 May, Saturday HOLIDAY	08.30-8.50 Introduction of strategic plan by Past-President 08.50-10.00 Plenary discussion of the strategic plan 10.30-11.30 Brake-out on the strategic plan 11.30-12.30 Report from the brake-out sessions 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Interaction with other societies and global initiatives (Milan Konecny) 15.30-17.30 Publication plans (Bob McMaster, Elsevier, RMIB)
4 May, Sunday HOLIDAY	08.30-12.00 EC Meeting: Commission chairs that wish to discuss items are welcome 12.00-13.00 Lunch 13.00-17.00 EC Meeting
5 May, Monday	Departure President and SG prepare General Assembly