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STDM, FLOSS LAND REGISTRATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION. Workshop Conclusions. Discussion – 30 August 2007. Mika-Petteri Törhönen , FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Land Governance in Support of the MDGs; Post-conference Workshop
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STDM, FLOSS LAND REGISTRATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION Workshop Conclusions Discussion – 30 August 2007 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
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 theUniversity of Otago. • Studies; workshops http://source.otago.ac.nz/oscar/OSCAR_Home http://www.fig.net/commission7/wgroups/wg7_3_07_10.htm • Open Source Cadastre and Land Registration software shell design using STDM based data model.
FAO FLOSS; OSCAR • Stand up phase • Next step either real cases implementation project through an open source development project or just • Wrap publication with partners.
STDM • Result of a huge effort. Auguri! • Helped the OSCAR work to start. • Can help others!
STDM • ISO process: • Very useful as a technical guideline. • Should not become a standard. • Social domain discussion good, helpful in promoting our cause, but technically difficult to understand.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS helping to build a world without hunger Thank You!