Geospatial World Forum 2013

Monetizing Geospatial Value for Land Administration

Alex PiliptchakSr. Director

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Digital Evolution

Abstraction/ Model

Land Surveying Geometry

Abstraction/ Model

Real World Geospatial Information

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Geospatial Information is Everywhere

• Pervasive

• Ubiquitous

• Usable

• Commodity? - Not Yet

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Users of Land Information

• Traditional Users – Specialists

• Surveyors

• Land Administrators

• Industrial Users

• Professionals

• Attorneys

• Accountants

• Business Managers

• Consumers

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Value of Land Information

• Compounding Effect

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Information Product

• Successful information product

• Comprehensive

• Current

• Accessible

• Authoritative• Thomson Reuters

• Hundreds of products in Science, Financial, Legal, Tax, Compliance, Land

• Consolidate information – comprehensive & current data

• Use best source – authoritative

• Platform and customer service – accessible

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Challenges and Enablers for Productizing Land Information

FragmentationSpatial

Local – Regional – National National spatial data infrastructureNational land information systemsNational standards

Functional

Title – Valuation – Tax – Land Use – Planning and Development – Natural Resource Management – Other

Geospatial coreLADMTechnology consolidation

Organizational

Government Departments / Units / Agencies

Institutional reform

Structural

Lack of Adopted StandardsMultiple Legacy Models

LADM

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Challenges and Enablers for Productizing Land Information

AuthorityLegislature

Antiquated legislature prescribing disparate functions and responsibilities

Legislative reformInstitutional reform

Legal Risks

Legal risks arise from omissions or mistakes while claiming to be authoritative source of information

Public sector modernizationBusiness risk management

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Challenges and Enablers for Productizing Land Information

Currency and AccessibilityTechnology

Private Sector Innovation Public-Private collaboration

Standards

Limited Interface and Access Standardization

Private sector drive

Applications

New / novel use for geospatial information

Consumer awareness

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From Cadastre 2014 to Vision 2020

Then Now

• Private sector is leading innovation

• Geospatial and land information is not exclusive to specialists anymore

• Private sector is set up to successfully productizing geospatial information

• Substantial revenue source

New era has begun

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Mutual Benefit Model

Government

Citizens

Private Sector