Blockchain-Based Digital Record-Keeping in Land Administration System

Abstract

Land Administration System (LAS) is a salient infrastructure for any developed or developing country. The LAS is implemented both in digital form (traditional database system) and the manual approaches (paper-based documentations). Both of these systems provide monopoly control to an authority which may increase corrupt behavior in land administration. Again, though the Blockchain technology was originally introduced for keeping a financial ledger; the utilization of this technology can be extended to implement any decentralized computing systems including the digital record keeping and management system. Recent studies found that uses of Blockchain technology in land administration remain new and relatively untested. Therefore, in this work, a blockchain-based framework is proposed to develop a land administration system. The proposed framework was simulated in Ethereum blockchain platform; and showed that the framework contributed to develop a secure, reliable, scalable, effective, and efficient land administration system.