1. DEVELOPMENT OF A GEOPORTAL FOR EFFECTIVE COUNTY LAND MANAGEMENT: CASE OF NAIROBI CITY COUNTY
Victor Ouna
Department of Land Administration and Information,
Technical University of Kenya

2. Outline Cities Nairobi City Land Administration in Kenya SDI
SDI and Land Administration
Geoportals
Structure of Geoportal
Nairobi City Geoportal
Structure
Gains
Challenges
Implications

3. Cities Cities are the future of the world - Urbanisation
Role of cities
- economic growth and
- social development
Potentials of cities
Challenges of cities
- urban sprawl
- Tenure Insecurity

4. Nairobi City Largest city - administrative base - economic
- industrial
Financial, political and technology hub in Africa
- Innovation hub
Devolution and Land Administration
Conditions
Sustainability

5. Land Administration in Kenya
Background
- post colonial
- genesis
Devolution
- County government
Challenges
- centralized system
- manual systems
Land Information
- outdated
- manual records
Weak institutional arrangements

6. Spatial data Infrastructures
Spatial Framework
Components
People
Data
Technology
Policy and Institutional arrangements
Facilitate
Access, Sharing, exchange, use, consumption, dissemination
Support
Decision Making
Policy formulation and Implementation

7. SDI and Land Administration
Information system
Integrated data
Monitor and analysis
Land Information System
Data Integration and Management
Monitoring Land Markets
Cadastre based SDI - Security for Tenure

8. Geoportals Internet portal
- used to find and access geographic information and resources
Gateway to SDIs
Metadata Catalogues
Geographic applications
Web Services
Data management
Clearing Houses

9. Structure

10. Nairobi City Geoportal
ESRI Geoportal Framework (Open Source)
Data Cataloging, administration, integrity
Catalog service
Themes
INSPIRE-compliant discovery service
Customizable metadata profiles
Configurable search engine
Federated searching
INSPIRE Directive
European Spatial Data Infrastructure
Geoportal
KNSDI

11. Why Geoportal For Nairobi City?
Data Integration
Land administration
Urban Land Use Planning
Security of tenure
Development plans
Service Delivery
Risk management and disaster response
KISIP

12. Gains Spatial Framework Infrastructure Service delivery
Support Land Markets
Policy formulation and implementation
Encourage use of geospatial resources
Corporate, multi-sector partnerships
Public participation
Entry point for SDI development

13. Challenges Lack of Policy Framework /Directive
Financial Considerations
Weak Institutional Arrangements
Capacity development
Technological Constraints

14. Long Term Implications
Maximize on large scale
ICT driven city
Land Governance
E-government
Spatial Enabled Government
Innovation

15. Q&A

16. Thank You