Future directions in responsible land administration

Fundamentally, the term “administration” suggests bureaucratic, controlled, and steady, if not slow, paces of change. However, the previous chapters have shown that the relations between people and land that land administration attempts to capture are the very opposite. At all levels of abstraction, land administration can be seen as being multifaceted, crosscutting, interdisciplinary, and above all dynamic. Dynamism in land administration is currently visible in the social and political recognition—or negotiations on recognition—of land tenure typologies (Simbizi et al. 2014; van Leeuwen 2014). The developments in geo-ICT create their own dynamics. They offer the opportunity for previously unforeseen methods of land data capture, visualization, and sharing (Uitermark et al. 2010). Geo-ICT disturbs more than the technical elements of land administration systems: organizational and political contingencies are placed in flux when technology selections are made (Kurniawan and de Vries 2015; Sui 2014).