TITLE:
A Web-Based Pilot Implementation of the Africanized Land Administration Domain Model for Kenya—A Case Study of Nyeri County
AUTHORS:
David Kuria, Moses Ngigi, Caroline Gikwa, Charles Mundia, Mary Macharia
KEYWORDS:
LADM, LAS, A-LADM, Development Control, Workflow Automation
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geographic Information System,
Vol.8 No.2,
April
14,
2016
ABSTRACT: Kenya has amassed a wealth
of paper based land information records collected over the duration of more
than a century. The National Land Commission (NLC) having the mandate to
develop a National Land Information Management System (NLIMS) for Kenya
partnered with the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology on a project to
develop a pilot LIMS for Nyeri County. A pilot Land Administration System (LAS)
has been developed in this work and utilizes an Africanized Land Administration
Domain Model (A-LADM) fitted to the Kenyan context. Various processes involved
in land administration that required to be automated were identified. Informed
by the numbers of applications made for the change of User service, it was
picked as the first workflow to be automated. The key outputs of this work were
the A-LADM and pilot LAS. The pilot solution uses a webcentric solution, with
the data stored and managed centrally from a PostGIS database backend, using
the Python Django framework to implement the server side and client side
frontend. This solution demonstrates the importance of automating processes and
supporting standards based software development. Stakeholder participation is
key when implementing systems and 2 workshops are held to capture requirements
and validate the developed solution.