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Ground Truth in Building Human Security

Douglas Batson2014 PSOTEW

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Source: Author KABUL DISTRICT 73M returnees to

Kabul’s Informal Settlements

Kabul City: Planned and Unplanned

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Source: Emerging Markets Group:

Source: Emerging Markets Group

Photo: Author

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Cadastral parcel numbers tie a person, by name (personal, organizational) to a place

Right Photo: Emerging Markets Group

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“No matter how messy or difficult the world’s land disputes…”the LADM can register even competing claims

Source: UN FAO

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LADM is now ISO 19152!

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USAID Ghana Project Overview

OpenTitle™ is a low-cost registry and cadastre tool with an all-inclusive approach to collecting, documenting, and recording the documentary and geographic information relating to property rights. ---- Thomson Reuters

• Collect evidence of property ownership• Map and survey lands• Record property rights – generate

property folios• Partner with Trimble Navigation,

Opportunity International, Sinapi Aba Trust

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• Use consolidated onsite interview, survey and document review process – we go to our clients

• Leverage technology – GIS, titling, GPS, imagery with all data centrally stored

• Use data to derive a property folios• STDM/ISO 19152 compliant toolset

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OpenTitle Architecture

Client - Server based comprising:– ILS OpenTitle Client

• For recording property rights - indexing, image processing, etc

– ILS OpenTitle Administrator• Management and control of data model,

users, back up and restore operations– ILS OpenTitle Server

• Application logic, version control. OpenTitle Server runs on Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 databases and Express versions.

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Persons/Non Natural Persons

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Properties

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Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities

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Property folios – tying it together

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