Land ownership remains a sticky issue in our country and record management seems to be one of the core problems. There are many instances where several people have title deeds for the same parcel of land. This issue led two innovative minds from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) to seek solutions in technology and the result has been quite impressive. Robert Ouko and Jennifer Mwai, both at the university’s School of Computing and Information Technology, are the brains behind a Biometric Land Registration system that seeks to forestall land ownership issues such as land grabbing. The system has a database where information on the parcels of land, say in a district, is stored. The information entered includes the geographical location, size, map, owner and the number of times it has changed hands. The owner’s details are also entered and the finger print stored. The system uses a mSQL and oracle databases to store the information.
Courtesy: The Standard
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