Workshop Conclusions Discussion – 30 August 2007 STDM, FLOSS LAND REGISTRATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION Mika-Petteri Törhönen, FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Land Governance in Support of the MDGs; Post-conference Workshop FIG and the World Bank, 11 March 2009, Washington DC, USA
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Workshop Conclusions
Discussion – 30 August 2007
STDM, FLOSS LAND REGISTRATION AND
POVERTY REDUCTION
Mika-Petteri Törhönen, FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONSLand Governance in Support of the MDGs; Post-conference Workshop FIG and the World Bank, 11 March 2009, Washington DC, USA
FAO Philosophy on Land
• Access to land and the security of tenure form the foundation for:– Food security– Social stability– Economic growth– Poverty Reduction
Cadastre and Land Registration
• Provide security of tenure
• Provide accurate information on rights to land– Monitor and facilitate
access to land
IT; Great Promise in LR
• Logical structures of IT systems help to sort out messy and ad hoc land processes and records.
• IT pushes systems to a greater level of standardisation improving equality and quality.
• WEB-based solutions increase transparency with direct implications to governance.
Issues in IT & LR
IT systems in Land
Registration improve
the security of tenure.
IF THEY ARE SUSTAINABLE!
Experiences with IT and LR
• IT brought a hope of standard service for rich and poor, but became a bottleneck of feasible land administration.
• Developing countries LRs have struggled in the establishment and maintenance of IT.
• Transitional countries have been more successful, but also struggled.
Key Problems
• Administrations lack of:– IT knowledge and
experience– Capacities to manage often
complicated IT projects.
• Capacities are continuously lost to the private sector.
• Outsourcing has helped, but also failed.
Approaches
• ‘Big Bang’ IT projects have failed more often than succeeded (WB contracts).
• Incremental and local ICT projects have been more successful and less vulnerable than big projects.
Free, Libre and Open Source Software
• FLOSS is a combination of two movements:
• Free Software Foundation =>– Software that can be used,
copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restriction
• Open Source Initiative– Software in which the source
code is available for modification and redistribution by the general public
FLOSS Potential
• Sharing code and solutions may lower the entry point for the IT introduction to LR.
• FLOSS LR Community could provide support to lone IT developers in the Developing World.
• FLOSS LR Community would allow learning from others.
• FLOSS suits well for local tailored development.
FAO FLOSS; OSCAR
• With FIG 7, the WB TG and the University of Otago.