Land Administration , ICT for urbanization in Rwanda

2. • Introduction to Land
Administration Information
Management
• Practical use of ICT in support of
urbanization in Rwanda

3. • Good land administration creates accurate, accessible,
interoperable, timely, secure, and complete information about land
and property in an affordable and efficient way that promotes
confidence between the public, its commercial enterprises, and
government.
• ICT has an increasingly fundamental role to play in improving the
operation of land administration and in making information services
more readily available in support of land markets and urban and
rural economic development
• The three core ICT technologies for land—the Internet, global
navigation satellite systems (GNSS), and geographic information
systems (GIS)—are converging and creating huge opportunities to
manage land and property using ICT in much more thorough,
inexpensive, and effective ways

4. ICT can be used for the following purposes:
• Provide a single point of access to all the relevant land and property
information.
• Record and analyze all land held by the state.
• Monitor the performance of property prices and make relevant information
available to the public and private land and property companies, and policy
makers.
• e-planning portals that allow citizens to access land-use control information,
including
• Access to zoning development plans, planning regulations, and general
land-use information;
• submission of development applications;
• Access to proposed developments, associated drawings, and their current
status;
• Submission of comments associated with proposed developments to be
used as material evidence in the decision-making process; and
• Access to the results of development control decisions.

5. • The widespread use of GPS and image-based mapping
technologies by professionals and expert as well as amateurs;
• The emerging role of Web 2.0, which allows more user involvement
and interaction (for example, “wikis,” which allow any number of
interlinked web pages to be created and edited via a web browser,
and standards-based authentication processes to contribute
information to the web);
• The growth of social networking tools, practices, and culture. Within
land administration
• Free Open sources software versus proprietary software
• Cloud computing: Storage, process, backups, Multiuser interface

6. • In Rwanda. ICT has a priority as an a driver for
economic growth, this has translated in all sectors
being in natural resources management in land
administration , land use planning , agriculture in
infrastructure managements for roads and electricity
as well in service delivery for citizens on E-
Government different initiatives.
• Government institutions as well as private operators
and academia have initiated robust and reliable web
services like the Kigali Master Plan online where the
match of the parcel identifier from the registered land
information and the zoning plan to inform the citizen
before commitment for any land transaction.