Harmonizing laws and regulations with new technologies and innovations in land aministration
Tarek Zein
Over the last decade innovative technologies and methods have been developed to demarcate land parcels and register land rights in an inexpensive and swift way. These new technologies and innovations, such as rectified imagery acquired by aircraft, satellites or drones / UAVs or UAS, are now used by the fit-for-purpose land administration approach in order to register land rights systematically. Though these innovative technologies have been applied in some developing countries for land registration there is a time lag between such developments and existing land legislation. The land legislation in developing countries often appears to be out of date which is impeding the legal application of innovative technologies. In addition, the lack of or the existence of difficult to implement UAV regulations is hindering the drone operators to fly UAVs. This is making the usage of drones in the land registration problematic. This paper presents a case study of some of the countries and describe their current drone regulations and land laws and recommends a harmonization of laws and regulations with new land registration methods and technologies.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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