DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERIZED LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERIZED LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

Land Information Systems (LIS) have been primarily developed to serve the needs of countries that use a 'western' style land market where individual land rights are the norm. However many countries that have a large proportion of lands held under customary land tenures where communally held land rights are common, are also wishing to establish LIS. For these countries LIS is a tool to facilitate the management and administration of their land resources, preserve their customs and traditions and promote the development of a market economy. In order to be effective, the LIS introduced into these countries will need to incorporate customary land tenure data. This paper considers the implications of incorporating such customary land tenure data into a LIS. Firstly the attributes of western land tenures that are currently used in Land Information Systems are reviewed; then drawing examples from Fiji, the paper examines some of the attributes of customary tenure that could be entered into a LIS. This is followed by a discussion of some of the major issues associated with including customary tenure data in a LIS.

CHAPTER ONE

1.0       INTRODUCTION

            Land Information Systems (LIS) have developed in the 'western' world, primarily in response to the need to improve efficiency, to reduce reliance on an expensive labour force, and to capitalise on the advances being achieved in computer and communications technology.

Although the Land Use Act of 1978 was meant to usher in a new land reform in Nigeria, it soon became a clog in the wheel of development over the years.   This was more so because the Military Government which promulgated it also ensured it was embedded in the Constitution of the country. Thus, any attempt to rectify its inadequacies required a constitutional amendment. There were thus many protests both to have the Act expunged from the Constitution and to amend it in very much substantial way.  It took the decision of the current President of the Federation to have land reform as one of the seven point agenda of his administration. This paper is, therefore, divided into six parts. The first discusses the land tenure situation before the Land Use Act of 1978.   The second reviews the Land Use Act and some of the challenges it has thrown up over the years. The third then considers the circumstances leading to the setting up of the Presidential Technical Committee on Land Reform in 2009 whilst the fourth examines the activities of the Committee since it was set up. 

The fifth considers the problems which the Committee is likely to meet in the process of executing its mandate. A concluding section reflects on the prospects before the proposed Land Reform Commission which, it is hoped, will soon take over from the Committee.   In addition, western countries have usually developed land registration systems that record individual property rights and other details of individual land parcels with the primary purpose of supporting a free land market economy based on an efficient system of buying, selling, leasing and mortgaging land.

1.1       BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Land is an essential input (factor of production) for agriculture, and agriculture is by far the most important economic activity in industrial societies. With the advent of industrialization, important new uses for land emerge, as sites for factories, warehouses, offices, and urban agglomerations.

Also, the value of real property taking the form of man-made structures and machinery increases relative to the value of land alone. The concept of real property eventually comes to encompass effectively all forms of tangible fixed capital.

With the rise of extractive industries, real property comes to encompass natural capital. With the rise of tourism and leisure, real property comes to include scenic and other amenity values.

Information helps to open up and provide opportunities for people, it helps them to actually make use of the opportunities and to shape their own lives, and it helps reduce their vulnerability to misfortune.

Local government decision making is a political process where the decision makers are both internal and external. So the management information system must provide information to the public (external) as well as to employees (internal). However, the information needed by the public has not been determined and this stems from current information systems being inadequate and comprehensive.

At present, the Ministry of Land and Housing in Calabar States, work independently with coordination among themselves. All the details of the property owner, land size and location are documented.

         Laborious and time intensive.

         Files created in different plot of land.

         Record files kept in a file cabinet.

         Conventional methods of land survey.

         Maintenance of all related data for each parcel of land makes land administration and management incomplete and inefficient.

         Land development control and property tax collection.

All this whole process is done manually.

For efficient usage of computerization, a new computerized system is designed to solve the problems affecting the manual system in use. This new system is computerised thereby in relieving both the customers and staff from much stress as experienced in the manual system.

This new computerized system will do the analysing and storing of information either automatically or interactively.

The new computerized system will also have some other features like:

         Accuracy in the handling data.

         Fast rate of operation and excellent responding time.

         Better storage and fast retrieval system

         Easy ways of backup or duplicating data in other hardware drives in case of loss data.

1.1       STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

1.         Keeping record of lands and their owners has been a great task to government and the governed.

2.         Access to land information proves difficult that most times people are defrauded due to lack of land information. 

3.         Illegal sales of lands without the consent of the owner are very common.

4.         Certificate of occupancy is usually a problem. Litigation which results to death and destruction.

1.2       OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The objective of this study is to develop software that will keep information on:

1.         Land size, Land location, Land owners, Land use information.

2.         To facilitate the preparation of certificate of occupancy.

3.         To assist the prospective buyers to ascertain the ownership and availability of the property.

4.         To enhance preparation of lease.

TOPIC: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERIZED LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM

Chapters: 1 - 5
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Number of Pages: 81

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