E-governance in Land Record Management is a key to eradicating corruption, mismanagement and loss of revenues to the government. I am interested in exploring how GIS-based systems are functioning?
Hello,
You mention you are interested in GIS based systems. Effective record and land management is vital for e-governance. (Technical) systems are effective tools, but the, in my opinion, vital issue is effective information management, i.e. what information to be handled in the system(s), definitions of each object/entity agreed upon by the organisations exchanging information, the use of standards (for example ISO 19152, Land Informations Domain Model (LADM), ISO 19115-1 metadata, rules for data access, business models, etc. WIthout this it will be difficult to establish an effective spatial data infrastructure (SDI) and e-governance. Examples are the data specifications and other documentation for the European INSPIRE directive, see link.
Best regards
Jesper M. Paasch
http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/
And let's add ISO 16175 that defines requirements for records management within business systems: added to the standards mentioned by Jesper it would create a system that would (automatically) record transactions and guarantee their archiving and preservation. That would allow for a policy to fight corruption and mismanagement.
There are a number of international standards one could use to address this issue. Most were developed in close collaboration between professionals from both the developed and developing world. See Article Managing digital records in a global environment: A review o...
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