Abbreviated abstracts of the submissions are provided below with full proceedings to become available on the World Bank website once the conference is concluded.

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“Co-production and co-creation of responsible land administration: insights into potential prospects and pitfalls from the ‘its4land’ project.”

Authors: Serene Ho, Joep Crompvoets and Trui Steen (KU Leuven, Belgium)

This paper applies the concepts of co-production and co-creation from public administration to consider to what extent third generation land tools, like its4land tools, deliver, on the promise of responsible land administration by supporting participatory and inclusive use of new technologies in land tenure recording. Empirical data derived from fieldwork in East Africa is used to build an argument that, although the co-productive proposition of third generation land tools is reinforced, what this actually means is not entirely clear, and how this leads to value creation even less so. It appears that the structure of co-production is being technologically driven rather than needs driven and risks becoming a consequence of imitation, or worse, coercion, reinforcing old biases in new ways. In turn, this threatens the very value of responsibility that these tools propose to deliver.

“Smart Sketch Maps: A Tool for Community-driven Land Documentation using Hand Drawn Maps.”

Authors: Malumbo Chipofya¹, Cristhian Murcia¹, Mina Karamesouti¹, Sahib Jan¹, Angela Schwering¹, Carl Schultz²

¹University of Münster (Germany); ²Aarhus University (Denmark)

This Masterclass presents new tools designed to support bottom-up land tenure, land rights, and land resource mapping using hand drawn maps. These tools which form part of a system called Smart Sketch Maps, SmartSkeMa (pronounced smärt skē-mə) in short, facilitate automatic and semi-automatic interpretation of free-hand sketches (Chipofya et al., 2017). This fills a gap in the community mapping workflow which was traditionally solved through manual digitization (Knight et al., 2010). SmartSkeMa is not only concerned with digitizing objects drawn in the sketch map, it is designed to allow meaningful interpretation of these objects and geo-localization using existing map data of the area depicted in the sketch map. The goal of the Master Class is to demonstrate how the power of sketch maps in capturing relevant information from a community’s perspective can be harnessed using SmartSkeMa.

“Modelling Local Knowledge for Inclusive and Responsive Land Information Systems: The Maasai of Southern Kenya Ontology.”

Authors: Malumbo Chipofya¹, Mina Karamesouti¹, Sahib Jan¹, Angela Schwering¹, Cristhian Murcia¹, Carl Schultz², Serene Ho³, George Osewe⁴, Beatrice Chika⁴

¹University of Münster (Germany); ²Aarhus University (Denmark); ³KU Leuven (Belgium); ⁴Technical University of Kenya (Kenya)

This poster presents a formal domain model for land-related concepts in Maasai communities in Kajiado County in Southern Kenya. The goal of the domain model, termed the Maasai of Southern Kenya Ontology (MSKO), is to contribute to closing the gap between the formal and indigenous or local conceptualizations of land tenure. MSKO supports a bottom-up approach to recording land tenure information that emphasizes local needs. MSKO is part of the innovative land tenure recording tool called “Smart Sketch Maps” (SmarSkeMa) that integrates information from hand drawn sketch maps into an underlying topographic base map. In this work we discuss the approach used in developing the MSKO domain model and provide empirical justifications for it.

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