土地管理局是否有动力？

每天，报纸前页携带关于不公正，灾害，冲突，不公平，战争和难民的头条新闻。关于实现可持续发展目标取得进展的更新往往是在第12页左右的某个地方的问题，甚至是第二天的版本。良好土地管理的价值似乎进一步走向人们的思想。对于全球大多数公民和决策者来说，扎塔斯和注册管理机构与“无聊”和“官僚主义”的言语有关。但是有变化的势头吗？

（由Kees de Zeeuw，Kadaster International，荷兰）

I sense change. People are starting to analyse and better understand how things are interlinked in society. Short-term problems (our newspaper headlines) relate to mid-term solutions (Sustainable Development Goals) and long-term developments (land administration). They should now be brought into sync, making land rights for the world a conditional factor in global, national and regional development. Is something new happening in land administration? Is there momentum for change?

I believe there is – and that’s not only because of my optimistic nature! It is also being underlined by upcoming initiatives. The United Nations is recognising the importance of good land administration and management by putting the issue on the agenda. The final declaration of the UN-GGIM High Level Forum in Addis Ababa is a major step in this respect, and is commendable to read. National governments and civil communities are launching initiatives to recognise land rights for all and registering these rights both top-down and bottom-up – from Togo to Mozambique and from Cuba to Indonesia. Donor organisations and countries in the north are also taking action by relating trade and aid to people’s land rights. And let’s not forget the private sector. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has set up a domain group on land administration and new (and young) entrepreneurs are entering the arena, spotting business opportunities in land administration. This means that it’s time to act. Land rights should be recognised and registered and used in a proper way. There’s no time to lose and no money to waste.

我们有一个很好的起点,因为大部分been achieved already. The present availability technology and data is a great help. Satellite imagery, GPS and a world connected by the internet open up new opportunities that were unimaginable just a few decades ago. Standards like the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) are helping to jump-start new initiatives and are connecting top-down and bottom-up projects together. Not only that, but the necessary knowledge and experience is in place too. The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (VGGT) and the recently published Guiding Principles on Fit-For-Purpose Land Administration allow for well-designed systems with respect to the legal, spatial and institutional framework.

这意味着我们正在挑战达到社会的期望。是的，仍有重要的问题要克服。有明确需要更多的能力和最佳实践来激励彼此。政治意识，融资和领导是持续关注点，所以不应该失去势头或焦点。让我添加包容性问题。它是关于所有人的所有人：不仅适用于所选择的少数，不仅适用于精英，不仅是因为富人，而且对每个人来说。