masterclass: "Its4land" - innovative geospatial tools for fit-for-purpose land rights mapping
Tarek Zein, Joep Crompvoets, Serene Ho, Ine Buntinx, Claudia Stöcker
Hansa Luftbild AG, KUL, University of Twente (ITC)
Sub-Saharan Africa has an immense challenge to rapidly and cheaply map millions of
unrecognized land rights. Existing approaches have failed. Good land records can help to
deliver tenure security, dispute reduction and good governance. This is the main goal of
“its4land”, a European Commission Horizon 2020 project that aims to develop innovative
tools that respond to the continuum of land rights and fit-for-purpose approach. its4land
is using strategic collaboration between the EU and East Africa to deliver innovative,
scalable, and transferrable ICT solutions. The project moved beyond the state of the art
in all its intended impact areas: partnership building, ICT advances, end-user
understandings and enhancing innovation capacity. The masterclass presents the recent
achievements, findings and challenges faced during the first half of the its4land project.
We believe that sharing our current results we will provoke discussions, knowledge
exchange and may engage users and decision makers for future collaboration.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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