Regional SDI & Land Administration, Capacity and ... - INSPIRATION

As stated in Article 7, paragraph 2, point j), ASIG cares about education and increasing the
capacity of actors involved in processes related with national infrastructure of geospatial
information as well as for the dissemination of information related with it, to the public and
interested groups.
In establishing ASIG the crucial issue will be how to set up an operational team that will have
to take its responsibilities in a short time. In other words, the key factor will be human
resources with appropriate experience in management of spatial information. There are four
sources of such staff:
the Immovable Property Central Registration Office (IPRO)
Agency for Legalization of Urban and Informal Zones and Buildings - ALUIZNI
Albanian Geographic (Military) Institute (AGMI)
the academic sector, primarily Department of Geodesy Tirana.
As the establishment of land administration system in Albania has passed its peak, the
pressure on IPRO from the first registration is reduced, yet there is the next potential
challenge – digital cadastral map that is about to replace the existing so called index map.
Some of its 533 employees have skills in geodesy or geoinformation management and can
contribute to ASIG, but the majority have experience in land registration. Similarly, ALUIZNI
has done a great job in mapping the informal settlements and properties and now has a
small, but skilful team with experience in geospatial data collection, processing and
management. Having completed most of the initial entry, the ALUIZNI geoinformation team
may give contribute significantly to forming the ASIG.
AGMI is known to have produced topographic at ranges of scales from 1:10,000 to 1:100,000
for the whole territory of Albania. It is somewhat less known and less open due to its defence
mapping nature. However, it may be worth seeking for capacities there.
The academic sector, with the Geodesy Department, but also Department of Geography and
Faculty of Geology and Mining, is actively following the developments in geoinformation
technologies, as well as (to some extent) management, legal and institutional aspects of
spatial data infrastructures. ASIG will most probably look for assistance, and maybe even for
staff, in this circle.
Beside the listed organizations there are some others, such as Albanian Geologic Survey
(AGS), Central Technical Archive in Tirana, National Forest Agency, N.A. for Water, N.A. for
Environment, N.A. for Territory Administration, local governments, and private geomatic and
geoinformation companies.
Anyway, up to the time of the National INSPIRE Workshop in Tirana held in November 2012,
ASIG was not established, a director was not appointed. So, the INSPIRATION project’s
primary beneficiary organization for Albania, the Immovable Property Central Registration
Office (IPRO), is still the main acting authority for spatial data infrastructure implementation
in Albania. IPRO has a good cooperation with the Department of Geodesy Tirana
(Polytechnic University Tirana, Civil Engineering Faculty).
INSPIRATION – Spatial Data Infrastructure
in the Western Balkans
Regional SDI & Land Administration (LA) Capacity and
Education Study and Recommendations Report
(Act. 2.1 and Act. 2.2), March 2013
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