Land Minister Chimwemwe Chipungu has called on Malawi's surveyors to take up new technology and hold their professional standards high. He gave the message in Salima while opening the Surveyors Institute of Malawi's 2026 Annual Continuing Professional Development conference. His argument was that the country is changing how land is managed, and a profession built on paper maps and field books cannot afford to stand still. Digital tools for measuring and record keeping are reshaping how parcels get surveyed and registered. Chipungu tied the message to the government's wider effort to modernise land administration, an area long weighed down by informal boundaries and incomplete records. He asked the institute to keep its members trained as the tools change. The conference programme is built around sessions meant to keep licensed surveyors current on those changes. In a country where land disputes fill the courts, the quality of survey work reaches well beyond the profession itself.