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Ganesh Prasad Bhatta(M.Sc. , Land Administration)

Chief Survey Officer, Survey Department

February 8, 2013, Friday

Spatially enabled e-governance: in the Nepalese Context

13th CAN ICT ConferenceOrganized by: Computer Association of Nepal and Internet Society Nepal

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Government of NepalMinistry of Land Reform and Management

Survey Department

Presentation OutlineObjective of the Presentation

Setting the SceneBrief Introduction to relevant terminologies Benefits of SEGKey Elements of SEG

Present Situation Initiatives to build infrastructure for SEG Issues and ChallengesConclusion

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Objective of the Presentation

To draw the attention/concern of Policy makers, ICT professionals, and researchers towards spatially enabled governance◦ to fill the policy gap◦ to fill the system gap◦ to fill the research gap◦ among others

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Setting the Scene 'Death of Distance' 'There is no more there, everywhere is here'

-Internet- (Cairncross, 1997)↓

Exploitation of the opportunity offered by internet -Electronic Self Service

- E-government -↓

Incorporating Location Based Information to the information system

Location based Services - Spatial enablement-

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IntroductionE-government

◦ Online service delivery, using internet or other digital means

◦ Combines various ICTs (Geo-ICTs) to connect government agencies and institutions, promotes reorganization of governments internal and external information flows, activities and functions in order to shift service delivery over the internet

◦ Draws together the public sector, civil society and international actors, as well as improves consultation with, and participation by, all spheres of society to achieve a more participatory process of governance & decision-making

(Navarra and Cornford, 2007).

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Introduction … Governance

◦ The process of decision-making and the process by which decision and implemented (or not implemented)

◦ It comprises the mechanisms, processes and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations and mediate their differences .

E-Governance ◦ the application of ICT to achieve efficiency, effectiveness,

transparency and accountability in Government to Government, Government to Employee, Government to People and Government to Business.

◦ It enables peoples to make best use of automated administration processes that are accessible on-line.

(Carmen RĂDUŢ, Dan VILAIA)

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Introduction …

Citizens- customer, - voter,- taxpayer, - applicant, - citoyen, - subject, - stakeholder, - civil servant

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Local Government

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E-Government Concept

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Introduction …Spatial Enablement

◦ Addition of location based information to the existing information system

Spatially Enabled Government (SEG) ◦ the government that makes use and benefits

from a wide array of spatial data, information, and services in its policy and decision making

Spatially Enabled Society◦ a society can be regarded as spatially enabled

when location and spatial information are commonly available to citizens and businesses to encourage creativity and product development

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Introduction … Example of SEG

◦ spatial based e-government application, which is developed to access the parcel based official documents on internet.

◦ transmission of the spatial government documents (cadastral plans, construction permission plans, land usage plans, application plans, etc.) to related person and agencies in electronic environment using e-government applications.

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Benefits of SEGEnsures good governanceHelps to make the decision and policy

making effective Helps to make justifiable distribution of

resources and national benefits

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Key Elements of SEGLegal Framework

Spatial Data InfrastructureCommon Data Integration ConceptPositioning InfrastructureLand Information System

Data and Information Concept

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Nepalese Context for Spatially Enabled e-Governance

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Present SituationThe numbers of e-government applications using

non-spatial data have been continuously increasing, while quite a few applications using spatial data have been conducted by the related government agencies.

ICT Policy and Electronic Transaction Act have been enacted but the issues related with spatial and property data are not adequately addressed

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Business vs ICT Market

Strategy

ICT Policy

Processes

Systems

Business

ICT Market

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Operational Alignment

Strategic Alignment

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(Barnasconi, 2006)

Does this alignment prevail for Geo-ICT based Business and market in Nepal?

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Initiatives to Build Infrastructure for SEGMinistry of Land Reform and Management

◦ SOLA (Open source based land information system) under progress

Survey Department, the National Mapping Organization◦ Digital database of topographic map series and various

kinds of geoinformation products◦ National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Initiative◦ Cadastral data acquisition with digital technology◦ Infrastructure for Positional Data

Department of Land Information and Archive◦ Digitalization of land records and development of land

information system (LIS) (ongoing)

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Initiatives to Build Infrastructure for Spatially Enabled Governance …NSDI initiative

◦ National Geographic Information Infrastructure Project (NGIIP) under Survey Department

◦ An initiative to ensure e-democracy in geographic information

◦ An initiative to

discourage duplication of efforts and resources to produce similar kind of geoinformation products

◦ An initiative to ensure interoperability, consistency and sharability of the geo-data

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Challenges and Issues ICT Policy and Electronic Transaction Act- Geo-ICT

issues, especially related to land administration to be addressed adequately

NSDI integration - is vital for e-governanceAwareness - should be enhanced Inland Capacity for system development - to be

developedOrganizational Capacity for sustainability of the system

◦ Infrastructure ◦ Human resources ◦ Investment

Coordination - to be improvedProfessional Development - to be emphasized

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By the way

is e-governance properly translated?

e-governance = वि�द्यु�ती�य शासनवि�द्यु�ती�य = Electricis e-government = electric

government? Let's rethink the translation

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ConclusionSpatial enablement of the information makes the

policy and decision making more effective and spatially better distributed

Due concern of the policy makers, ICT professionals and researchers is needed in order to work more on this domain

Let's work together! Then, we will be successful in promoting e-Democracy in Nepal, ultimately to build 'e-Nepal' since 'together we can'

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Thank Youfor your kind attention!

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