Land Governance Digitalization
Discussion
ICT Works:
"Digitalization – the adoption and use of information and communications technologies (ICT) and artificial intelligence in different sectors and every day life – in the context of land governance is promoted as a way to increase transparency, efficiency, tenure security, and to protect against fraud and corruption, thus providing important benefits to all, including marginalized rural people.
Such potential contributions to the improvement of land governance and administration need to be carefully weighed against risks, such as a further worsening of existing unequal patterns of access to and control over land and other natural resources by the rural (and urban) poor.
From a human rights perspective, it is crucial to note that digital technologies are often applied in a context of structural inequalities and discrimination, as well as increasing commodification and financialization of land and nature.
Little research has been done so far on the actual impacts and implications of landrelated digitalization processes, in particular for affected people and communities. The Disruption or Déjà Vu? Digitalization, Land and Human Rights research paper intends to look deeper into such processes and to offer a preliminary analysis from a human rights perspective – a perspective that is largely missing in the current debates on digitalization."
(https://www.ictworks.org/human-rights-impacts-land-governance-digitalization/)
More information
- The Disruption or Déjà Vu? Digitalization, Land and Human Rights research paper intends to look deeper into such processes: https://www.ictworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/FIAN_Research_Paper_Digitalization_and_Land_Governance_final.pdf