Nigel Edmead, Director of Training, presented a paper entitled "A Paradigm Shift: Leveraging Paralegal Title for the Benefit of the Developing World and the Surveyors Whot Map It" co-authored by Peter Rabley, Craig Deroy and Samuel Darko at the FIG Working Week 2008 – Integrating Generations and the FIG/UN-HABITAT Seminar – Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing in Stockholm.

The paper presented details of ILS’s recently initiated pilot project with a leading microfinance institution (MFI) in Ghana in which the private sector is leading the issuance of paralegal title through field investigation of de facto ownership and the recording of geospatial location information with the full assent of the community involved. In addition to delivering much needed security of tenure the paralegal title will supplement information on a client’s creditworthiness enabling the initial target group to secure larger loans from the MFI. The paper can be downloaded from: http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2008/papers/ts07a/ts07a_02_rabley_etal_2721.pdf

Mr. Edmead was also a member of a team from ILS that included Noel Taylor, Vice President of International Development and Peter Rabley, President and CEO, who demonstrated ILS’s low cost, commercial off the shelf registry and cadastral solutions for emerging economies at a commercial exhibition that ran in parallel to the conference. Visitors to the ESRI booth, of which ILS was a partner, were able to see demonstrations of LRS, DSS and other ILS software solutions and learn of the services the company offers.