Despite continuing to be highly dependent on paper-based processes, the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) has made significant progress in digitising some of their operations, Chief Executive Officer Trevor Benn says.
Speaking at the Commission’s end-of-year press conference on Monday, Benn said that the continued reliance on paper-based operations remains a major challenge. He cited the high cost and other challenges of transitioning to a digital system but said that fundamental steps have been taken to set the stage for more substantive improvement that will continue in 2019.
He pointed out that the Commission has created a Wide Area Network (WAN) as part of its plan to move to a digital platform and has been linking its regional offices to its head office through the network. According to Benn, the network was developed, tested and implemented between the Head Office on Upper Hadfield Street, D’Urban Backlands, and their regional offices in Regions Two, Three, Six, Nine and Ten. He said that the regional offices are now able to access the centralised accounting system, the Lease Management System and digital records of survey plans that are almost completely digitised.