Options for updating land records : the cases of Oromia and SNNP regional states
Muda, Aman & Siraj Duna
A key component of land administration is the management of land and property-related data. Data are collections of facts that, from a land administration perspective, may be gathered and written down as numbers and text for instance in a surveyorrs field book, or collected and stored digitally through use of data loggers and computers. They may also be held graphically as on maps or aerial photographs. Data becomes information when processed into a form meaningful to a decision maker. The usefulness of this information will depend upon the quality of the data and especially on the extent to which they are up to date, accurate, complete, comprehensive, understandable and accessible. Poor quality data will almost certainly result in bad decision-making. Land information systems may be designed to serve one primary function or they may be multifunctional. Some have been developed to support strategic planning, where the focus is on determining an organizationns objective and on the resources employed to achieve them. Some provide support for management control and are concerned with the effective use of resources so as to accomplish the organizationns goals. Others have been designed for operational control so that specific tasks can be carried out effectively and efficiently. Each requirement dictates a special set of criteria that determine what information is needed and hence what form the information system should take.
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