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PREFACE The enlightenment from the darkness of ignorance invites and embraces new information for reformation in human minds every moments when they feel any need to fulfill and in such way wants, problems, needs and rights are viewed as the precondition of any change or development, reform or revolution toward achieving peace, justice and progress. The findings may be used as texts by academics, students and researchers in higher study communities of the universities and related training institutes on information systems viz. GIS, PSI , LIS , land economics, public finance, taxation, political science, business administration, accountancy, public administration, management, governance, standard, accountability and transparency. Registration systems are government authorities who are responsible to create, serve and preserve all sorts of public documents, databases and information in their records, registries and archives. It is a very important and influencing part of law discipline which touches public life everyday. Over the centuries registration covers most of human and citizen activities ranging from birth registration to death registration. In this process personal matters like marriage, divorce, organisation, education, culture, sports , cooperatives societies, religious activities, clubs, business, industry, property , vehicles, professions and occupations, labour and trade unions or CBAs, patents, designs and copyrights, publications etc. to make information available for personal , judicial and public causes to meet PSI user needs . Registration is a wider public sector exercise of any civilized country in the modern globalised world for making use of legal sequential, and systematic recorded data for personal, social , business and commercial or any other general needs to ensure evidence based transparency. The book findings emphasized on strengthening information systems for environmental, economic and social data related to land resources at the global, regional, national and local levels and for land capability and land-use and management patterns; Coordination between existing sectoral data systems on land and land resources and strengthen national capacity to gather and assess data; Providing the appropriate technical information necessary for informed decision-making on land use and management in an accessible form to all sectors of the population, especially to local
communities and women; Supporting low-cost, community-managed systems for the collection of comparable information on the status and processes of change of land resources, including soils, forest cover, wildlife, climate and other elements. This book is an attempt to review major multidisciplinary topics on registration and information systems that will be useful for policy makers, politicians, economists, development community, government officers, local government representatives, advocates, tax officials and ITPs, NGOs, IGOs, donors, business and stakeholders We hope it will play an important role in adopting speedy steps for providing public sector information (PSI) to ensure Right to Information for all.