Lagos State Geoinformation Infrastructure Policy (LAGIS) as a tool for mega city development : opportunities and challenges
Adeoye, Anthony
The Big Cities Policy is currently the major urban policy in the Lagos State of Nigeria since 2007. The policy is now in full swing to support the Lagos State Geoinformation Infrastructure Policy (LAGIS). Consequently, Lagos State Government embarked on a comprehensive digital surveying and mapping of the whole state, which has resulted in the creation of an Enterprise GIS Database and the establishment of Lagos State Geoinformation Infrastructure Policy (LAGIS). The Lagos State Geoinformation Infrastructure Policy (LAGIS) is to support development programmes such as tourism promotion, industrial development, boundary resolution (inter and intra state), property valuation and revaluation for effective taxation and revenue collection, population and housing census operation, planning of urban and rural settlements and transportation, flood and erosion control, mineral development, including bitumen and petroleum and agricultural, and communication planning. This paper will describe the approach adopted towards the development of the Lagos State Geoinformation Infrastructure Policy (LAGIS) and examine in details the opportunities and challenges being faced. Finally the paper will assess the potential impact of these changes in the current and immediate future.
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