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RICS Crowdsourcing and Land Admin Research, Live

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RICS Crowdsourcing and Land Admin Research, Live
20 November 2011, 4:43pm

A groundbreaking RICS research report investigates the possibility of using crowdsourcing to improve land tenure security in poor communities worldwide. Author Robin McLaren MRICS recently presented to an UN ‘Spider’ crowdsourcing invite only event in Geneva to an audience of over 60 UN officials, scientists, World Bank and other sectoral Non Governmental Organisations such as Ushahdidi, Oxfam and OpenStreetMap. Only 1.5 billion of the estimated 6 billion land parcels worldwide have land rights formally registered in land administration systems. Many of the 1.1 billion slum dwellers and further billions living under social tenure systems wake up every morning to the threat of eviction. These people are excluded from any form of security of tenure: they are trapped in poverty. Increasing global population and urbanisation is only going to turn this gap into a chasm. A collaborative research project from RICS and Know Edge explores one potential solution to the security of tenure gap: establishing a partnership between land professionals and citizens through 'crowdsourcing'. This would encourage and support citizens to directly capture and maintain information about their land rights. The research presents a vision of how this might be implemented and investigates how the risks associated with this collaborative approach could be managed. Crowdsourcing is a concept that uses the internet and online tools to get work done by obtaining input from, and stimulating action by, citizen volunteers. It is currently used to support scientific evidence-gathering and record events in disaster management, such as witnessed in the recent Haiti and Libya crises. These applications are emerging because society is increasingly spatially enabled. The latest crowdsourcing research sets a new standard for RICS output and has already been presented at a number of United Nations' and other international events. The closing of the 'security-of-tenure gap' is of critical importance to the future of the developing world and for global economic progress. Crowdsourcing, combined with other UNsupported initiatives such as professional capacity building, may be a real solution to this problem. This research also contains case studies from Haiti, Kenya, South Sudan and Canada.

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Summary A groundbreaking RICS research report investigates the possibility of using crowdsourcing to improve land tenure security in poor communities worldwide.

Description A collaborative research project from RICS and Know Edge explores one potential solution to the security of tenure gap: establishing a partnership between land professionals and citizens through 'crowdsourcing'. This would encourage and support citizens to directly capture and maintain information about their land rights.

Tags: Crowdsourcing, developing world, Land Admin Research, OpenStreetMap, Oxfam, RICS, Tenure gap, Ushahdidi

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