It appears several government projects like the Ghana Land Administration Project (LAP) which started in 2003 seeking to strengthen the land sector in Ghana and formalize tenure under the funding of the World Bank failed proving no tangible results on several occasions on both phases due to lack of proper documentation and implementation better still, challenges persist in terms of making the process simple, efficient and cost effective for both landholders and land administration authorities.
Unless the costs associated with land registration are sufficiently low vis-a-vis the benefits perceived by landholders, land registration records will rapidly become obsolete, jeopardizing the investments made to reform registration systems.

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 Using the Blockchain related technologies to improve land titles records, we are currently operating on the understanding that the people at the local level have the self-interest to make sure that things are recorded correctly and once things are set up properly, the benefit will be that the record is public and transparent and resistant to abuse and unauthorized changes.

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After months of research Bitland finally puts a stake in the ground for land titles in Ghana using
Bitcoins and the Blockchain, that with a cell phone an individual will be able to deed their own
property free from the hustle of land administrations, including the time and money
and the frustrations from using the existing court system.

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BTC as there are many financial responsibilities to cover in terms of acquiring the equipments.
Such as gps devices, computers, good internet and anything else required to meet with communities and land administrations.

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Technology is changing human interaction almost faster than scholars, pundits and journalists can keep up with, resulting in the uniting of humans around the globe in an unfathomably complex web of relationships. New “borderless” nations are emerging: communities of people who live all over the world and who share common values, interests, and cultures. We believe that given the right opportunity, these new nations will thrive as geopolitical turmoil continues to constrict the old. With the release in 2009 of Bitcoin’s blockchain technology, enabling for the first time a way to verify transactions without a single authoritative third party, now may be the best time in human history to reassess our reliance on the traditional nation state - a form of governance that is growing outdated, and which is holding back human social and economic evolution.
The reason why the blockchain matters is because the blockchain transactional database has the basic record-keeping properties required of a governance system. Once the information is online, it exists forever on the network. The blockchain has a rigorous verification process that is virtually impossible to crack once the network can be established definitively through their unique “signatures”, and in turn, those individuals can sign and verify transactions (e.g. the attending physician at your birth or the priest officiating your wedding). Instead of a government official acting as notary or other trusted third party verifier, the consensus of the blockchain now takes on that role.

Arrange meetings with community leaders in areas suitable for tests: areas where people live in (have property) and are currently non-titled. Speak with the community leaders (paramount chiefs and sub-chiefs) to understand their perception on the land situation. Conduct research with open-ended questions amongst different parts of the community. Map out shared community resources in the pilot area: shared wells, shared sewage, shared electricity lines, etc.
2. Community workshop and decision on test area
A workshop with people in the area to explain the benefits of land registry and deeding, how the blockchain works in its function of a distributed public ledger, and helping people through the process of setting up their own PGP keys. The workshop will need to be carefully prepared in advance, and in some areas translated into the local language. (Note: the community workshop will be included in the Bitnation land title pilot).
It could be a small street or a few houses with land bordering each other, perhaps 4-5 pieces of land owned by different persons. The purpose is for people with bordering land to the soon-to-be titled land sign off on a common map with their public keys, so that it’s verifiable that the community agreed on the boundaries, not just individual owners. This is designed to prevent people from randomly titling land that doesn’t belong to them.



To create titles on the blockchain the instruments needed are GPS coordinates, open street maps (or other mapping system), PGP keys, and a timestamping service. Each step is outlined below.

1. Prepare title document
Verify GPS coordinates via Google maps/ open street maps with owners of land x (land to be deeded) and owners of all lands surrounding land x, create new google map. verify against physical landmarks, photos uploaded to map to match coordinates.

Use available OpenStreetMap editors for creating polygon plots. Enter the GPS coordinates of polygons in the Open Street Map cadastral layer. Other platforms to consider instead of OpenStreetMap includes GeoCommons, QGIS and GeoServer. Refer nodes to the unique ID’s on each survey marker. If there need to be time to make sure consensus is met, that should be taken into account. May need to convert data from Empirical System to international standards. (Note: this step will not be included in the Bitnation Land title pilot)

Prepare title document: standard land title contract with updated names. Include GPS coordinates, block number, merkle root, map reference and the name of area (country, city, village, street, house if applicable/ availible data).

2. Timestamp land title, sign of with PGP keys, create database and torrent
Help the community create personal PGP keys (see step 1.2), can also be done using keybase.io for the pilot. Sign of Title document with PGP keys of local sub-chief, the landowner, landowners of the surrounding lands, other people as applicable.

Timestamp the land title into the blockchain using a service like btproof or proofofexistence.
Save hash and block number. (together with the merkel root the blocknumber proves that it was done between time x and x).

Create a SQL database to enter the data, store documents.
Create torrent using BitTorrent.
Store database and documents, images, maps, hash on torrent.

Part 3. Land Tokenization and Utility Contracts
The purpose of tokenizing the land is to turn it into a tradable instrument which can be tracked, thus more secure and transparent. Adding smart contracts for purchase, leases, rent or other utilities tied to the token can add advantages of  automatically executed commands tied to for instance escrow accounts, mutual saving wallets, marriage or wills documents, corporate shareholders contracts on the blockchain etc.


 
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