Floss in Cadastre and Land Registration

Lessons learnt

Even though one of the main reasons for the adoption of open-source software 

tools for the development of the LIS in Ghana is to ensure sustainability through 

the elimination of the payment of huge license fees on proprietary software, it has 

been realized that there is the need to have skilled personnel who understands the 

open-source concept and have programming skills. Unfortunately, such personnel 

have not yet been recruited. To compound the situation, the implementation strat-

egy adopted by the consultants for the development of the stage one LIS required 

most of the development activities to be done in the home country of the consult-

ants. There has therefore not been any transfer of knowledge.

Efforts are however being made to improve the IT skills of staff and also recruit 

staff with requisite skills to manage the system. In the interim therefore, reliance 

will have to be placed on external sources. In the long term however, strategies 

will have to be put in place to attract and maintain skilled personnel in the area of 

programming and software development.

In conclusion Ghana believes the open-source approach to the development of 

the computerized land information system is in the right direction. The requisite 

capacities would have to be built to get the system underway.

4.5 Samoa

 

Vitaoa Pele Fuata’i, Neil Pullar