Group Discussion

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Group Discussion

• South Africa

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Problems and Solutions

• Political will/buy-in
• Tie-in the programe/strategy for political
  acceptance to the government programme
• Political champion

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Funding

• Identify funder either by pulling resources from
  different stakeholders
• Donors

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Stakeholder buy-in

• Public participation
• Sell benefits to stakeholders

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Policy

• Develop and implement policy
• Establish institutional framework

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Disparate and Lack of datasets

• Identify sources and standardize
• Identify and agree on custodianship of metadata

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Infrastructure

• Sound indentification of user requirements
• Ability to articulate problem statement
• Treat it as a program catering for various
  projects

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Standardization

• Datasets
• Concepts and definitions
• Methodology

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Lack of skills

• Capacity building
• Succession planning skills transfer

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Marketing and communication

• Use of accessible publicity media

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Maintenance and updating

• Training and empowerment of personnel
• System and processes in place

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Elements of a good addressing

• Updatable
• User friendly
• Systematic and chronological
• Sustainable
• Visible
• Acceptable
• Standardization
• Timeliness
• Proper reference system
• Expandable

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Recommendations

• Synergize the information between all the
  different sub-groups Geo-Info, Addressing, ABSA,
  ICT, Libraries
• Standardized classification scheme per region
• Urban
• Formal
• Informal
• Rural
• Low density
• Tribal

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Recommendations

• Pilot project per Country/region
• For existing system integration
• Addressing, cadastral, postal and census systems
• Institutionalise
• Education
• Media/communication
• Adopt and maintain existing and functional
  systems.
• Investigate the popular landmark reference
  addressing system