Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information Management
Knowledge field: Land Administration
To contribute to education, research and advisory services activities of ITC where it concerns the field of land administration, which is defined as the ‘process of determining, recording and disseminating information about tenure, value and use of land, when implementing land management’ (UN, 1996).
As land administration is not an end in itself, but serves society, the knowledge field develops understanding of the way land administration systems should support:
- the development of a land policy in a multi level government environment
- the implementation of such land policy trough measures regarding land tenure, land markets, land taxation, land use planning, land reform and the management of natural resources
- the principles of good governance and the rule of law as a context
- adequate institutional conditions of legal framework and mandates in the public administration which the land administration system needs in order to serve these functions
- organisational conditions of business goals and IT policy at strategic level, and work processes and supportive IT architecture at operational level to make land administration systems work, and development of geo-information systems for land administration.