Engaging the Private Sector: A taxonomy of real problems faced by industrie that can be adressed by improved land management systems
Philip Auerswald, Gitanjali Swamy
Everywhere in the world, the management of land is a core function of government. As a consequence, the process of cadastral updating is, necessarily, administratively-driven. However, the benefits of improved land management systems accrue overwhelming to citizens and private-sector companies in the form of greater transparency, improved efficiencies, and, importantly, the opportunity to design and deploy business services built on land data. The rapid development of digital technologies provides land administrators with a powerful array of new tools for engaging the private sector not only in utilizing land data resources, but also in contributing actively to their development. In their most basic form, cadastral updates have focused on the digitization of paper records. In most settings, this alone is a very challenging and costly task. More ambitious projects have sought to shift the framework from traditional Land Administration Systems (LAS) to Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) in which land data are organized in stacked layers (multipurpose cadaster) encompassing various categories of data (legal, tax, environmental). The creation of such data systems typically involves successful coordination among multiple government ministries or agencies, and the integration of data from multiple data “silos”.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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