Abstract:
Kenya has amassed a wealth of paper based land information records collected over the duration
of more than a century. The National Land Commission (NLC) having the mandate to develop a National
Land Information Management System (NLIMS) for Kenya partnered with the Dedan Kimathi
University of Technology on a project to develop a pilot LIMS for Nyeri County. A pilot Land
Administration System (LAS) has been developed in this work and utilizes an Africanized Land
Administration Domain Model (A-LADM) fitted to the Kenyan context. Various processes involved
in land administration that required to be automated were identified. Informed by the numbers of
applications made for the change of User service, it was picked as the first workflow to be automated.
The key outputs of this work were the A-LADM and pilot LAS. The pilot solution uses a webcentric
solution, with the data stored and managed centrally from a PostGIS database backend,
using the Python Django framework to implement the server side and client side frontend. This
solution demonstrates the importance of automating processes and supporting standards based
software development. Stakeholder participation is key when implementing systems and 2 workshops
are held to capture requirements and validate the developed solution.
