Abstract
Governments throughout the world have turned (or are turning) to modern technology — in particular, computer technology — to solve the problems associated with their traditional methods of land-data recording. This introduction of technology has not always met with success. A major problem has been that many jurisdictions have only addressed needs at the individual system level. Typically, the traditional manual systems that comprise the land recording environment have never been planned as a homogeneous or integrated operation. If computerisation of these independent, autonomous, fragmented, and often duplicated systems is undertaken on an individual basis, the result is almost certain to be a series of independent, autonomous, fragmented, and duplicated computer systems. In addition to perpetuating the inefficiencies of the past, these systems lack the valuable synergy which comes from the ability to interrelate and integrate the wide variety of data contained within the generic term “land information.” With the realisation that effective land resource management (and therefore, social and economic development) is totally dependent on effective land information management, governments around the world are beginning to understand the importance of a “corporate,” strategic approach to the development of their land-related information systems. This paper outlines the rationale, methodology, and benefits of such a strategic approach.
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