THE GHANA ENTERPRISE LAND
INFORMATION SYSTEM (GELIS)
AS A COMPONENT OF NATIONAL
GEOSPATIAL POLICY
GRAHAM DEANE and ROBERT OWEN, Airbus Defence and Space
BENJAMIN QUAYE, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Land Administration Project
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Overview of Presentation
Starting in 2011, Ghana’s Second Land Administration Project (LAP2) has, amongst other
things, been given the responsibility for developing a consolidated National Geospatial Policy
(NGP)
This is based on a draft NSDI policy drafted in 2013, together with a Survey and Mapping
Policy, also created in 2013, and a Geodetic Reference Network Policy created in 2014
The National Geospatial Policy (2016) sets the scene for developing a National Spatial Data
Infrastructure
At the same time, LAP-2 is developing the Ghana Enterprise Land Information System
(GELIS), also based on a number of previously developed foundations and components
This paper explores how the implementation of GELIS is contributing to the development of
an NSDI fro Ghana and laying the foundations for a comprehensive framework of data
sharing for the Government, key stakeholders and citizens.
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NSDI Globally
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Benefits becoming widely acknowledged and accepted
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Infrastructures being implemented globally
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“Around 50% of the 54 African countries have formally taken steps to develop
their national geo-information policies” (Andre Nonguierma - United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa Oct 2014)
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Benefits
– Reducing duplication
– Allowing awareness and knowledge of what is available
– Encouraging more efficient use of data
– Encouraging data sharing
– Encouraging adoption of standards
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The Current Situation – Ghana Projects
Many projects and initiatives becoming aware of NSDI benefits
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Ghana Agriculture Online GIS Platform
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Street and Property Addressing
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Millennium Cities Initiative
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Accra – Resilient City (Rockefeller
Foundation)
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Smart Cities Challenge (IBM)
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Future Cities Alliance for Greater Accra
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Open Data for Ghana
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Commercial Agriculture Project
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Tourism maps
The Current Situation – Ghana Organisations
Agencies aware of benefits and key players in SDI
• Environment Protection Agency – has created an environmental SDI with
interoperable data and a data sharing agreement
• Ghana Statistical Service – a long history of using GIS to create national
datasets (e.g. Districts / Enumeration Areas)
• National Information Technology Agency – key for infrastructure, standards
and geospatial delivery
• National Development Planning Commission – key for coordinating high
level, cross-government development and economic programmes
• Survey and Mapping Division (of Lands Commission) –the main
geospatial data provider and the national mapping agency, central to the
development, improvement and accessibility of geospatial data
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National Geospatial Policy Components
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Consolidation of Policies
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Geospatial Data – Fundamental Datasets
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Key elements in achieving an NSDI
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GELIS in the Framework of an NSDI
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GELIS is Capturing Data
Overhead scanners now installed at
SMD with OCR, metadata capture
and QA procedures developed
The expanding volume of
archived documents is a
major storage and data
security problem
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GELIS is building a capacity
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Conclusions
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The fundamentals of GELIS fit into the framework of an NSDI
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Data capture is preserving the archive, widening the potential availability of data
and introducing QA, standards and maintaining the metadata
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GELIS software is at the first stage of development, with budget restrictions
reducing the current scope; but the fundamentals are in place for building the
comprehensive system that the Lands Commission needs for the future
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GELIS links with other initiatives such as the Client Service and Access Units
(CSAU) software that the LC have been developing, and other software
systems, such as LUPMIS, already being used in Ghana
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GELIS develops the process of implementing the geospatial policy, building on
previous success stories and moving along the road to a spatially enabled
society
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Thank you