**5.1 The proposed data sharing platform for digital urban administration**

The model proposed is meant to connect data producing and data consuming agencies together. It is proposed that there should be data sharing arrangement among the ministries, department, and agencies involved in implementing digital urban administration in Ibadan city or any similar city that has traditional outlook. There are three major data nodes or what is referred to as data centers among the various ministries, one of them is the ICT that archives all the data sets and databases of the state and local government. The other node is the physical planning unit of the state that coordinates all the local governments including the 11 local government area councils that make the Ibadan city. The other data node is the surveyor general office that is in charge of land and property title administration of the city.

## *5.1.1 Data sharing nodes for Ibadan digital urban administration*

These three data centers will interact with other clienteles on data sharing. The clienteles include the public and other relevant MDAs. For instance the physical planning unit will interact with the zonal town planning offices, which are located in the 11 local government council areas in Ibadan city. It is expected that computer systems and link node would be set up in each of the local council's areas so that they can be used to communicate with these. The Ministry of Land data center will communicate with surveyors' developers and property owners in the city as well as others who are involved in land transactions in the city. There is interconnectedness among these data centers, which will be facilitated by the SDI center or ICT center of the state. It is practically difficult to actualize digital urban administration without a robust urban spatial data infrastructure. USDI will facilitate the spatial data sharing among the organizations and agencies' nodes that are generating and using spatial data in the city. **Figure 3** shows the diagrammatic linkages between of data sharing among the relevant MDAs for effective digital urban administration in Ibadan city. The figure shows that urban administration is not limited to land administration in urban area nor urban planning procedures but an amalgamation of several activities across multiple agencies and organizations.

#### **5.2 Configuration of data centers**

The configuration of each of the data node or data centers is in such a way that they will have public and private component of data archving location. It is expected that the data hubs will maintain their respective data clientiles and will contribute data to the main data center as well as supplying data to its respective consuers. The physical planning data center is patterned as shown in **Figure 4**.

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development in the city. The model is presented in **Figure 2**.

*Model for digital urban administration in Ibadan city (author's compilation).*

The training activities need to be carried out to encourage MDAs staff members to embrace the implementation of digital technology and abandon their various

The land use decree in Nigeria provided the custodianship of urban land on the governor of their respective state while the rural lands are basically under the

Reproduction of maps is still done by ammonia printers while cadastral maps are still stored in hard copies. There was an improvement of carting cadasters in a paper-plaited board. Most of the equipment procured in the past were not maintained and they have gathered dust. Some of the computer systems used in the department have 500 Meg RAM while some plotters are not functioning because

Many survey plans in the city have poor spatial accuracy, while some of them are

The proposed model for the digital urban administration in Ibadan city is a complete overhaul of the existing system where city administration was fragmented to 11 local government administrations. It is necessary to adopt a single administration body to regulate development activities in Ibadan city and ensure even and ordered

Digital urban administration requires a very good spatial data infrastructure with a robust mechanism for data uptake and data sharing among different agencies charged with the responsibilities of regulating developments in the urban area There are four cardinal principles of municipal spatial data infrastructure according to the framework put forward by the World Bank in 2009. This is presented diagrammatically in **Figure 2**: the proposed Ibadan City Authority will be in charge of

**5. Proposed model for digital urban administration in Ibadan city**

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**Figure 2.**

#### **Figure 3.**

*Proposed urban digital data sharing among relevant stakeholders in Ibadan City (source: author's design, 2019).*

#### **Figure 4.**

*Data sharing configuration with the physical planning network (source: author's design, 2019).*

#### *5.2.1 Physical planning data center*

The physical planning data distribution configuration prescribes that data will be shared among the Zonal Town planning offices as these are the primary centres for building permits and approval. It is expected that land use plans are regularly developed by the Town Planning unit of the Ministry of Lands. The revised land use proposal plan is stored in the archives and is accessible to the zonal town planners to consult during the application process for building permit by the developers. When the applicant consults the zonal town planner for development activities, the town planners should have access to the updated version of the land use plan of the city to know the prescribed land use for the location. Access will be provided to the zonal Town Planner through security code to the server. When land use has been verified for the intended development and the permit has been granted, the planner should upload the document into the server for archiving georefrencing.

The data center will serve the zonal town planners and the general planners in the private sectors while the Surveyor General data hub will serve the

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**Figure 5.**

*Digital Urban Administration Model for a Traditional City (Case Study of Ibadan, Nigeria)*

developers and the general public that require information on land and land

The configuration of the data center located at the office of the Surveyor General (SG) is indicated in **Figure 5**. The developers and practicing surveyors will have access to the data archive and also upload spatial data on land matters to the

The field surveyors will need to collects geodetic datasets from the surveyor general office before they complete their measurement. When the survey exercise is completed, they are expected to send a copy to the archive of the surveyor general

**5.3 Urban spatial data infrastructure: a major ingredient of digital urban** 

Urban spatial data infrastructure refers to infrastructure that facilitates the discovery, access, management, distribution rescue, and preservation of digital geospatial resources for urban administration. Just as critical infrastructure such as water supplies and transportation networks among others are critical to the running of the city, the urban spatial data infrastructure is the fulcrum upon which digital

Urban spatial data infrastructure is the bedrock of modern urban administration and spatial database is the most critical part of the spatial data infrastructures. Ibadan city has a lot of spatial datasets, which are scattered in different agencies and departments, most of which are often duplicated. The agencies and department are not communicating as regards the spatial datasets while they often become obsolete before they are put to meaningful use. The need to implement digital data sharing arrangement among agencies of government therefore becomes imperative.

It is expected that there will be combined implementation of USDI and DUA

together in Ibadan for good urban governance in the city.

*Data Centre at the Surveying and Land Department (source: author's design, Oct 2019).*

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.92125*

*5.2.2 Surveyor general office data center*

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developers and the general public that require information on land and land matters.
