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Egyptian Cadastral Information Management, a Finnish development
co-operation project carried out by Egyptian General Survey Authority
(ESA) with Scanagri Finland Oy and Swedesurvey AB providing technical
assistance.
The aims of "Egyptian Cadastral Information Management"
(ECIM) project are to contribute to better security in land ownership
and transaction and a more sustainable management of the
nation’s
land resources. The project’s purpose is improvement of land
information system for cadastral services and its links
to land registration and land taxation.
 Egyptian General Survey Authority (ESA) is a nationwide
organisation under the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation.
It is responsible for measuring and describing of all land parcels
for land registration. Registration takes place in the land registry
offices under the Real Estate Publicity Department within the Ministry
of Justice and in co-operation with local offices of ESA.
The three-year project started in March 2002. Project
will build a pilot system in one province (Beheira) that can, if successful,
be applied nationwide. The project has two Nordic specialists, both
surveyors, as advisers on a full time basis: Team leader Gunnar Spännar
from Sweden (Swedesurvey) and GIS Junior Adviser Kaisa Harju from
Finland (Scanagri Finland). Swedesurvey has also provided the project
with several short-term advisers in the fields of systems analysis,
land management, legal issues, GIS etc. Otherwise the project’s
staff is locals, most of them very skilled and committed to reach
the goals of the project. The top management of ESA also shows great
interest in the implementation and the results.
The project has faced an enormous challenge in analysing
current analogue system, its conditions, data and workflows, varying
from office to office and continuously changing. This has been mandatory
however, to be able to build and introduce a computerised land information
and management system. The project has highlighted a number of problems
with the existing systems, which have to be dealt with by ESA and
the other stakeholders in order to make a successful computerisation.
The unified cadastral database, being converted from analogue
to digital (and from numerous existing digital environments of different
quality) as a part of the project, will in the new system be updated
by automated workflows of all cadastral activities. ArcCadastre, developed
by ESRI, Leica Geosystems and Lantmäteriet of Sweden, has been
selected in thorough tendering process to form one of the software
platforms of the new system.
For the moment (September 2003) the procured customized
software is about to be installed, additional ESA staff for running
the system is being employed and a comprehensive training programme
including basic courses and on-the-job training is about to start.
The software will then be further customized and thereafter tested
in some ESA offices parallel with the existing analogue system.
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