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GREETINGS to you all! And welcome to this first issue of 2005 FLIS News. We in Fiji, as an individual in our various organisations or as a group of GIS/RS/LIS community should now be able to see our achievements and the direction where we are heading to compared to the rest of the world. Accurate and reliable Land Information is essential to determine its conservation and rational usage. There is real value in seeking to produce consistent, up-to-date and reliable core information about land.
The editorial committee once again remind us of the fact that FLISNews plays a vital role in the development of LIS/GIS/RS technologies in Fiji and your contributions in future editions are most welcome. Develop Sugar Industry Analysis GIS One of the objectives of the ACIAR project was to generate a GIS database of the sugar industry, to develop a digital map of the sugar belt, including mill and sector, district boundaries together with individual farm boundaries superimposed on soils data and Land ownership data. The project team has completed its task after cross-checking, validating and harmonizing different sets of information obtained from various stakeholders, such as Native Land Trust Board, Sugar Industry Tribunal, Ministry of Agriculture, Sugar & Land Resettlement, Ministry of Lands & Mineral Resources, Fiji Sugar Corporation, and Fiji Sugar Cane Growers Council. In early December 2004, the stakeholders along with the Fiji Land Information Council unanimously agreed that FLIS would temporarily maintain the spatial dataset generated by Dr. Padma Lal & Rashmi Rita. This agreement will only be for 12 months (i.e. until such time the respective stakeholder, FSC is fully technically developed). It is interesting to note that the chairman of FLIC, Mr. N. Tabunakawai officially received the soft copy (CD) of the completed project from Dr. Lal, and likewise all the stakeholders received the same. On behalf of the editorial team, “Congratulations to both of you, Padma & Rashmi for the work, well done!” In broad terms, a Geographical Information System (GIS) is defined as a technology (information-system) that enables the capture, modeling, manipulation, retrieval, analysis and representation of Geographical data. GIS is an enormously powerful tool for inventory, query, analysis and decision making in many diverse applications and industries. The Department of Lands and Survey, in Fiji has recently set out its GIS section known as The objective of this project is to identify all the original state land parcels, map them and link to existing data base. According to their new supervisor, the first stage of the project is to locate all Native and Crown Grants thus confirming its true status, i.e. either State or Freehold land. If found to be state land, it will further be identified as state land “with” or “without” title. The second stage is identifying all the leases within the original title and linking to new modified state land administration. The end product of the project is expected to provide management with all needed statistics and maps for sound decision making. In September, 2004 the Department of Lands & Survey agreed to host an assignment with the Australian Youth Ambassador for Development under AusAid. The assignment position titled as System Analyst /Programmer and is based at the Fiji Land Information System Support Centre, located at 22 Gorrie Street, in Central Suva. Mr. Morgan Martin-Skerm a graduate from Flinders University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Information Technology was nominated for this assignment. The assignment duration is 12 months and with Morgan's skills in database administration, development and programming he is hopeful that the one year term will enable him to meet the host’s expectations in terms of outcomes, duties and responsibilities. The editorial team wishes Morgan all the best during his 12 months attachment at FLIS. Archive of quarterly newletters for Fiji Lands Information Systems covering recent updates.
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