The Privatisation of Registers – Thoughts from Australasia ; To make land as easily transferable as stock would be one of the greatest economical improvements that could be bestowed on a country.
Rod Thomas
Draft discussion paper: is no doubting the value of “big” data. It is becoming increasingly sought by private enterprise a source of wealth creation. Significant revenue can be obtained through control of data and, through that control, the creation of specialised applications which enhance the data beyond its existing form, enabling it to then be on-sold for (sometimes) significant commercial gain. For a long time, it is government that has been the keeper (if not the creator) of much of that data. Examples abound and include information relating to the sale of property, statistical information obtained through measures such as censuses, as well as something as prosaic as weather data. It is only now, as we multi-generationally transition from an industrial economy to a smart information based economy, that the possibilities inherent in its commercialisation are being realised. This conversation invariably turns to land registry information, or at least the provision of access and utilisation of that collated data, and how that can be made available to private enterprise. This is now an active debate in Europe, where currently, many details of land ownership are kept private and are not open to public scrutiny.
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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