GKI PROJECT

Overview

Land is the geo-fabric of any economy, and development of a well-planned Land Administration System is crucial for securing land tenures thereby contributing to the national economy. Creating and maintaining an effective land administration system is an intricate process managed by various agencies and organizations, with geospatial technology and applications being used for several aspects of the land administration workflow. But the impact of geospatial technology adoption will be realized effectively when it is applied across the entire cadaster workflow. The stakeholders of the land administration ecosystem including surveyors, private geospatial industry, land and cadastre agencies, policymakers, communities etc. have embraced innovations of the 4th industrial revolution and are evolving and adapting to use geospatial and frontier technology across the workflow.

The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) which has national cadastral and topographic mapping agencies as its members and private geospatial industry as observers have developed Framework for Effective Land Administration (FELA) for developing, reforming, renewing, strengthening and modernizing land administration and management systems thereby contributing to and supporting sustainable development. The Open Geospatial Consortium has a Land Administration Domain Working Group (DWG) which works on identifying enabling standards and best practices to establish more cost-effective, efficient and interoperable land administration systems. There is also a move away from the traditional top-down data collection approach by authoritative professionals towards bottom-up approaches of crowdsourcing supported by applications developed by private geospatial industry like Esri, Trimble, Cadasta, Leica etc. Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure aims to develop a unified infrastructure and approach which brings together these disparate elements and places geospatial knowledge at the heart of the land administration ecosystem.

The evolving challenges associated with the dynamic and ever-expanding landscape of land administration necessitates a cognitive approach in the workflow, through integration of frontier technology including IoT, AI, ML, 5G etc. with geospatial data and technology thereby enabling an automated, collaborative, and participatory land administration system. The cognitive approach which places geospatial at the heart of the land administration workflow will enable effective decision-making by making real-time geospatial knowledge accessible to stakeholders across the workflow. It is crucial to identify the current state of adoption and integration of geospatial and frontier technology in the land administration workflow, along with the challenges and gap areas in order to project the value proposition of a collaborative workflow for geospatial knowledge, to identify the evolving roles of diverse stakeholders, and to explore new business and partnership models for collaborative innovation.

Discussion Points

• Current state of geospatial and frontier technology adoption in land administration
• Benefits and challenges of evolving geospatial and frontier technology ecosystem
• Value proposition of real time, geo-enabled data and knowledge for land administration
• Evolving roles of stakeholders and opportunities for collaboration
• Disruptive business models for geospatial knowledge co-creation

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