Jill Urban Karr
Executive Director - Consulting Services/landfolio® Solutions
Trimble Navigation, Ltd.
USA

Biography
At Trimble, Jill is a part of the Land Administration Solutions Group. She is working with entities around the world to establish comprehensive, sustainable and effective land tenure solutions which leverage technology, international best practices and local requirements for the furtherance of secure land rights, transparent land transactions and reliable information systems. She began her career in the development and implementation of GIS and geospatial solutions in the public sector and is a senior manager with over 17-years of experience in land registration, cadastre and real estate market modernization in both the public and private business sectors. Jill has pursued and implemented multi-participant e-Government and land tenure/land administration projects for both the public and private sectors throughout the world, including: Costa Rica, Romania, Egypt, Madagascar, Benin, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Croatia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Belize, Bermuda, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Turkey and many others. She is currently working with the University of Melbourne (Australia) in the practical application of the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) into the solution architecture of land registration and cadastre management.

Jill graduated in 1986 with a Degree in Geography from the College of Geosciences. Additionally, she has participated in graduate studies in international business at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is currently the Chairman of the Texas A&M Universitys Department of Geosciences Advisory Board, and a member of the San Antonio College GIS Curriculum Advisory Board.

Abstract
Building A National Land Registration System ? A Case Study of Belize

The presentation will describe how a modern land registry and cadastre system was built by a partnership of government and contractor; the steps taken; lessons learned; and the operational efficiency of the integrated land registry system. Furthermore, the discussion will present the entire life cycle of development activity, including how the solution addressed issues with legacy data, training, remote office access and legal mandates.