India’s national land record modernisation programme seeks to re-survey lands, verify and upgrade records, and put the information online by 2021. In addition, there are data privacy issues with making land records easily accessible, she told Reuters at the sidelines of a land conference. Indian state retains billboards ‘naming and shaming’ anti-government protestersDigitisation of land records is an important step toward greater transparency and efficiency, said Amy Coughenor, chief executive of Cadasta Foundation, a Washington, DC based non-profit that develops tools to document land. Otherwise these systems can further marginalise and disenfranchise people without digital access,” she said. “Bringing in technology does not change the equation on the ground – people still have very differential access to technology,” she said.

Source: The Express Tribune March 09, 2020 16:18 UTC