Floss in Cadastre and Land Registration

Challenges

Now, seven years after the start of the systematic land registration under LMAP 

(renamed to LASSP or Land Administration Sub Sector Program in 2009), data vol-

umes and requirements have increased indeed. The MS Access databases can no 

longer handle the increasing amount of data and transactions. The data must be 

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migrated to server-based databases, but the MLMUPC does not have database 

 experts to maintain such database systems. Local technical capacity has not kept 

up, and IT expertise within the MLMUPC is almost non-existent. The MLMUPC 

finds it hard to contract and keep skilled Cambodian IT experts in the civil service, 

and still relies largely on foreign technical support.

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 The hardware was bought in 

2002 and needs replacement. Electricity cuts are frequent and the UPS devices 

that are supposed to protect the computer networks from power cuts, have 

stopped working a long time ago. Even small expenses such as RAM upgrades and 

replacement of non-functioning hardware are a problem, not necessarily because 

of the cost, but mainly because of the logistics of the approval chain and procure-

ment procedures involved.

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 Software upgrades are problematic too. Three differ-

ent versions of ArcView licenses are used spread over the 15 provincial offices, 

since the older licenses have not been upgraded when new licenses were bought. 

There is little that can be done to speed up hardware procurement, but when it 

comes to software, the use of open-source solutions would make software instal-

lations and upgrading a lot easier.