Web-Phone land information and billing System: Getting the Registry on your Mobile Phone

Abstract

Survey of Kenya is the country's institution charged with the responsibility of collecting, checking, storing and disseminating Land parcel related records. Of late efforts have been made to digitize these records and form a database. However the majority of the records are in paper form. Dissemination of this data, done through a search, is still manual. The public fill a search form and pay a small fee, and the records are reproduced to them in form of a filled and dully signed form or map or both. A government seal is impressed on the search and an incremental search number filled as evidence of authenticity. This project is intended to create a subsystem that can access a prototype lands database and access user defined datasets regarding a parcel of land. This will be done via a Graphical User Interface which is a website. A customer queries the database to verify availability of the data. Upon confirmation the search data is then billed via existing mobile phone money transfer services and a search compiled containing the requested information. An option exists for an accompanying map to be attached to the search. The final search document has electronic signatures of time, unique search number and time-stamps.