Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dr. Tarek Kamel along with Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zaid honored yesterday during a special celebration the teamwork of Phase I of the National Project for Automating Corporeal Land Registry. The celebration was held at the conference hall at the premises of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in the Smart Village.
Both Dr. Kamel and Dr. Abu Zaid praised the efforts of the teamwork referring on the achievements of phase I. A number of senior governmental officials and media people, journalists attended the celebration.
The first phase of the project comprised maps digitalization and a database for maps and another for real estate documents, then the integration of both into a database for geographical information.
The project, which came about within MCIT's Egyptian Information Society Initiative, started with a preliminary 200 million-pound budget.
The three-year project is expected to register 8.2 million acres of lands nationwide. It enables more efficient settling of ownership disputes and protects both the State and citizens' rights. The project also sets the one-stop shop principle at public authorities.
