Bitland Blockchain Initiative Seeks To Create Reliable Land Titles In Africa
A team of blockchain technology pioneers from Ghana, Denmark, and the U.S., has launched a blockchain initiative to establish usable land titles and free up trillions of dollars for infrastructure development in West Africa, according to Forbes. The Bitland initiative will educate the population about technology and hopefully foster the benefits of documented land ownership to those who don’t have it. It will begin in Ghana and expand throughout Africa, with hopes of catapulting infrastructure development and strengthening democracy. Ronny Boesing, the CEO and founder of CCEDK, the Danish....
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In developing countries the right to own landed properties as a priority can be placed just behind the right to life. Using Nigeria as a typical example, every piece of land is claimed, whether on record or not. Besides lands found almost in the middle of nowhere, ancestral ownership and transfer of such remains an unbroken tradition in defining the ownership of landed properties. There have been numerous cases involving the claim of property between the nation state and the local custodians. This occurs mostly when there is the need for the government to acquire such a property for the....
A new project piloted in West Africa, called Bitland, is using blockchain technology as a decentralized land registry. Due to the tamper-resistant nature of distributed ledgers, the project hopes to give the African citizens a better method to survey land and record title deeds using the Bitland blockchain. It will engage with “28 communities in Kumasi,....
Decentralized land registry project Bitland has announced its ICO crowdfunding campaign and slated launch following a partnership with Danish exchange OpenLedger and revamped “decentralized conglomerate” CCEDK. Bitland: Development Project Has ‘Many Aspects’. Bitland (bitland.world), which seeks to secure rights for landowners by using the blockchain to....
Land in many parts of Africa remains an emotive subject. Often fought over, few governments seem to have a clear approach to handling sensitive land issues. However one group in Ghana the Africa Youth Peace Call has come up with a novel way of solving the land question in Northern Ghana - by registering land titles on the block chain. Land Ownership in Ghana - The Bottlenecks. Northern Ghana is home to some of the richest arable land in the country. It however also plays host to Ghana's poorest citizens. In a paper written for the Food and Agricultural Organization, former Ghanaian....
On Tuesday, in Tbilisi, the government of Georgia signed an agreement to use the Bitcoin Blockchain to verify property transactions. Last April, the Georgian government and Bitcoin company BitFury initiated a project to record land titles on the Blockchain. This is the first time a national government is using the Blockchain to safeguard and authenticate state operations, therefore ushering in a belief in the technology that has wrongfully been painted black. First-time government Blockchain. As a matter of fact, the private Blockchain that will be an alter-proof ledger will also be....