Canada, Vietnam share experience in land information management

Canada and Vietnam co-organized a seminar on land management and land tax collection in the northern province of Nam Dinh on October 31.
Experts working in the fields of investment, planning, natural resources and construction from Canada’s Saguenay city and Vietnam’s Nam Dinh, Pleiku, Thai Binh, Phu Ly and Tra Vinh cities attended the event.
The seminar was held within the framework of a project to strengthen local economic development through managing land information that is being deployed by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), aiming to create favourable conditions for exchanging, sharing experience and supporting cities to take part in the project.
Canadian delegates shared their experiences in clarifying real estate transactions, preventing fraud and establishing conditions for credit.
Vu Thi Linh, Vice General Secretary of the Association of Cities of Vietnam (ACVN), said the lack of human resources qualified in the use of information technology (IT) and the weakness in developing software for public management mean that Vietnam finds it difficult to manage land-related information.
Representatives of Vietnamese cities hoped that the Canadian experts would share their experience in providing land information for administrative agencies and publishing information on the internet.
The CIDA project to strengthen the capacity of local economic development through land information management has been undertaken in Vietnam since 2004, with Nam Dinh chosen as the pilot city.
Since 2008, the project has been deployed in five more cities in Vietnam, namely Nam Dinh, Pleiku, Thai Binh, Phu Ly and Tra Vinh.
Canada has committed to support local economic development capacity in three more cities: Thai Nguyen, Ha Tinh and Soc Trang in the next phase before replicating the model across the country.