Applying low cost technologies in the field : development of the talking titler system
Barry, Michael
A number of case studies in different contexts underlie the design of the Talking Titler software system. These include informal settlements in South Africa, customary land disputes and urban land regularisation in Nigeria, post conflict land administration development in Somaliland and First Nations land claims in Canada and elsewhere. A range of data types can be used to provide evidence about land holding, and multimedia data such as video and audio recordings and digital photographs may augment conventional documents such as titles, deeds and survey plans. Nowadays, cell phones can capture all of these data types, and so community members themselves can collect multimedia data. The problem context - unitary, pluralist or coercive and the complexity of the situation should be understood before data collection commences and continually analysed while data collection is in process. The Talking Titler software has been designed with flexibility as a primary feature; the more complex the situation, the more flexible the database should be in order to model this complexity.
Event: Conference on Land Governance in Support of the MDG's : Responding to New Challenges
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