GeoLand

Strategic Partner

About GeoLand Asia

In view of the critical role that land, as a resource plays in sustainable development of economies, the countries in the Asia and Pacific region have long been making serious efforts to improve their land governance and administrative practices by undertaking a variety of changes to legal, institutional, social and technological set up. Steps have been specifically taken for:

• Increasing registration of property rights
• Use of new information and communications technologies
• Streamlining of laws and regulations
• Institutional reforms
• Boosting capacity building efforts
• Ensuring anti-corruption plans, good governance monitors and internal audit functions

Over the years, the role and use of geospatial and other Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have greatly helped to make most of these processes faster, secure, scalable and sustainable. Countries like Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, China, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Brunei have all achieved reasonable progress in streamlining their land administrative practices and in turn, the land agencies have been contributing directly or indirectly to economic and social development. However, use of technology is also wrought with many issues. Application of technology does not always yield expected results, might not be scalable or sustainable or may need frequent updations, training of human resource or may be just too expensive to maintain or start with etc.

The one-day programme on GeoLand Asia to be held during GeoSmart Asia will focus on the innovations that geospatial technologies are making especially for smarter applications in land administration segment, which are economical, easy to apply, scalable and lend to improving work efficiencies. The programme will create an atmosphere for dialogue between land administration stakeholders in order to explore innovative use of technologies for cadastral mapping, connecting property rights information to digital maps and delivering smoother, better services for citizens using technology.

Programme Objectives:

• Assess the progress made by countries in the region with respect to achieving smart land administration
• Identify the supportive role that the geospatial industry can play in achieving better land administration
• Identify economical and innovative geospatial tools and techniques for land administration
• Discuss on the roadblocks and ways to overcome them with respect to industry’s role in achieving well functioning land administration

Target Audience:

• Cadastral mapping agencies
• Land and Property registration agencies
• Private industry serving land administration sector
• Funding and multilateral agencies working in land administration
• NGOs
• Researchers and academicians

Speakers

Programme Outline:

Each session will have 4 speakers deliberating on the session theme. Each speaker will get 20 minutes to present their work and also take up few questions from the audience.

0930 – 1100 hrs	Session on Experience of Land Administrators
1100 – 1330 hrs	Networking Coffee Break, Visit to Exhibition and Lunch
1330 – 1500 hrs	Session on Role of Geospatial Technology in Land Administration
1500 – 1600 hrs	Networking Coffee Break and Visit to Exhibition
1600 – 1730 hrs	Session on Technology Innovations and their Successful Implementation