Digital technology is helping land professionals in a variety of ways, as we find out in this issue. “Fintech” and cadastres that can use Bitcoin and similar currencies have positive applications in land and real-estate transactions, as one article discusses, while another details how the National Trust has drastically cut the time taken to compile and validate data for grant applications Manohar Velpuri details the different stages of development of fintech and cadastres, an

FIG Working Week 2017 that will take place in Helsinki, Finland, 29 May – 2 June 2017 :: The Working Week is jointly organized by FIG and the two Finnish member associations in FIG, the Finnish Association of Geodetic and Land Surveyors (MIL) and the Finnish Association of Surveyors (MAKLI). The FIG Working Week is also supported by the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS). The First day of the General Assembly and the working week was attended by 1400 registered participant