During a study project in Gondar, Ethiopia, it came to my understanding that the registration of land is a national issue receiving many attention in politics.
Camilla Toulmin (January 2006), puts it like this:
Secure rights to land and property depend on a combination of two key elements. The rights being claimed must be seen, first, as legitimate by the local population; and second, they must also be ascribed legality by the state. Rights are insecure where this combination is not found.
My bachelor thesis (Information Science, Radboud University Nijmegen) will address different aspects of the land registration processes in Ethiopia, and the possible roles for ICT in this processes. However extensive research is published covering some of these aspects, I’m planning on including appropriate ICT and maybe even a hint towards ICT implementation of policies using business rules as well. I’ll keep you posted.
[...] memory dates back to February 2008, so why am I telling this now? Well, I am writing my bachelor thesis on land registration and today I came across an interesting anecdote of Emperor Menelik II: [...]
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