1. Sustainable Land Administration Systems
SYS 1 Building sustainable well governed LAS
SYS 2 Addressing land administration & management challenges
SYS 3 Innovative examples +
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2. 10 presentations
Santiago Borrero: Clear connectivity between SDI, LAS and (e)-government
Higgins: Positioning Infrastructures in place for monitoring global processes
Suchanek: Linking ICT strategy with business strategy in Czech
Greenway: Interorganisational cooperation weak and stakeholders insufficiently understood
Kapitango/Meijs: Reformulation workprocesses and use of other tools in Namibia

3. Sagashya/English: Existing forms of land tenure (both Civil Code, and customary) to be replaced by registered title in Rwanda
Silayo: Urban areas and urban poor not focal point, and too much confidence in free market as the means for land delivery
Adlington: Capitalize on investments. ‘Champions’ needed.
Zhao: making rural area productive and attractive through registration of farmer’s ‘rural land use and contracting rights’ in China.
Napier: how to give the poor access to high value land location in South Africa

4. Trimble: scalability of hybrid turn key solutions
Leica Geo-systems: digital airborne and lidar imaging allow very fast processing.
ESRI: leveraging the value of data by GIS
ITC: meeting demand for LA capacity only through joint effort

5. LAND POLICY INSTRUMENTS
POLICY OBJECTIVES
LAND POLICY
LAND POLICY INSTRUMENTS
SUPPORTIVE LAND TOOLS
The book ‘Land Tenure in Development Cooperation’ (GTZ, 1998, page 163) introduces the word ‘instruments for land administration’, which indicates the implementation measures to realize the fundamental objectives of land administration. Using this concept, we try to visualize the relation between the earlier mentioned elements in the diagram above.
The diagram is our visualization of the relationship between land policy and land administration. Political objectives such as economic growth, poverty reduction, sustainable housing and agriculture, social equity and fairness, protection of vulnerable groups in society, require a policy of the government how to deal with the allocation of access to land and land related benefits. The land policy, being a highly political document, requires intervention measures of a more technical nature (although technical measures also might be very political). In our understanding such measures concern the application of property right regimes, the extent to which a government wants to secure those rights, access to credit markets, the regulations of the land sales and rental market, the measures to enhance sound land use planning, land reform, land taxation and management to manage natural resources. We call these interventions ’land policy instruments’. To apply the land policy instruments, one needs tools, such as land registration, cadastre, other land information systems, land use classifications, valuation techniques. The definition of land administration, as ‘the process of determining, recording and disseminating information on ownership, use and value of land, when implementing land management policies’ (see Land Administration Guidelines UN, 1996 page 91) comprises the relationship between tools and policies very well.
(see also Van der Molen & Lemmen, 2004)

6. LAS Poverty Eradication MDG’s Sustainable Housing
Sustainable Agriculture
Economic Growth
Social Equity,
Equality
Land Policy: the political choices on how to allocate land and its benefits
Forms of Land Rights and Level of Tenure Security
Intervention in Land Sales and Rental Markets
Policy and Revenue
Generation through Land Taxation
Land use planning and Land Development
Public Acquisition
Land Tenure Reform and Redistributive Land Reform
Valuation methods
Land Registration
Management of Natural Resources, State Land Management
Cadastres and other Inventories
Land Use Inventories
Elaborating this diagram with the broader approach of (Deininger, GTZ, and outcomes of various global UN conferences), the diagram would then read as follows.
LAS

7. Access to information
Participation
Equity & Equality
Accountability
Low (transaction) costs
Predictable law
Reliable law
Fair enforcement
Transparent law
Workable law
GOVERNANCE
RULE OF LAW

8. LAND POLICY INSTRUMENTS
RULE OF
LAW
GOOD GOVERNANCE
POLICY OBJECTIVES
LAND POLICY
LAND POLICY INSTRUMENTS
SUPPORTIVE LAND TOOLS

9. BUSINESS
ICT MARKET PLACE
BUSINESS
STRATEGY
ICT
STRATEGY
WORK
PROCESSES
ICT
SYSTEMS

10. The Purposeful Land Administration System
LAS is a tool to serve a purpose.
No clear purpose, no good working LAS.
General principles for a LAS: good governance and rule of law
Without meeting these principles, LAS is a dangerous tool.
A LAS that is not efficient and effective, is a wrongly designed LAS.
LAS that cannot cope with daily transactions is not a good LAS.
LAS that cannot serve next 200 years is not a good LAS.
A good LAS is hardly possible without the private and academic sector, because the LAS-world is divided in enlightened thinkers, innovators and applicants.
A good LAS should be resistant against old fashioned lawyers and land surveyors, and opportunistic authorities.

11. Way Forward: the Deininger principles
D: data and datamanagement
E: economic and social justification
I: institutional and organizational prerequisites
N: national land policy
I: infrastructuur geospatial data and positioning infrastructure
N: natural resource and land use management
G: geographic informationsystems GIS
E: e-government
R: responsive to new challenges (climate change)