Blockchain Landmark Registry Solution

Solving Communal Crisis

In a state of 3.738 million people, Cross River State in South-South Nigeria, the home of tourism and hospitality in Nigeria has been sacked by communal crises over landmarks. Hundreds of individuals have lost their lives, farmlands have been destroyed, villagers have been displaced and the price of staple food has hit 200% high.
In the United Nation’s UN-DESA, 2014 brief, "Peace is an enabling condition for sustainable development while violent conflict is one of the greatest obstacles to the achievement of the MDGs. The gap in MDG performance between conflict-affected and other developing countries is large and increasing. By 2015, more than 50 percent of the world’s poor are likely to live in conflict-affected and fragile states and this percentage is projected to increase to 82 per cent by 2025."
Chained Lands Foundation wishes to restore peace to the crisis communities through its innovative use of Blockchain Technology to approach the crisis communities with a campaign to educate locals on to shun communal wars due to landmark issues and to understand how Blockchain has made communal land registry transparent and accessible to the public domain with any mobile device.
The innovation functions well with the collaboration of the State Boundary Commission which provides the land registry documents of all the local government areas, while our development team leverages on tamper-proof capability of the Blockchain technology to register all documented areas and work in collaboration with the stakeholders to capture the undocumented areas into the Blockchain ledger. 
Chained Lands Foundation looks forward to a Cross River State and the African Continent as a whole; free of land based communal crisis with its citizens maximizing economic opportunities and fostering poverty free Continent. This is our projection for 5 years;
As per our vision metric, by 2023, we have our five-year network-wide scaling plan to impact the 18 local government areas in Cross River State with its population of 3.738 million people. With a work force of 90 staff, we intend to achieve a campaign growth of 90% through a rigorous feedback driven campaign.

In dozens of communities across cross river state, communal land registries suffer from similar problems. Many citizens simply don’t have confidence in the system because the government has taken sides at different crisis situation for political reasons.

With our solution, we have a chance to fix many of these problems. The solution incorporates many key benefits of Blockchain technology, such as: an immutable records, so no one can ever doubt the authenticity; records are permanently linked to the system so no one can ever tamper with or forge a record of their own; and these records can be seen by any party, at any time.

Technology is very integral to our solution because this is a landmark registry application which must be positioned on a decentralized solution. For this solution, we have chosen to deploy a blockchain solution which will create a single source of truth of communal land ownership status that must have been endorsed by the state government and other stakeholders, and history of the communal land.

Within the next 12 months, we aim to establish partnership with all stakeholders involved in the areas where we will deploy the Blockchain landmark registry solution. This partnership will create a forum for input by the state government, community chiefs, security operatives, youths and other stakeholders. With this, our pilot solution will have a wider acceptance because there has been input from all involved in using the solution. And this will also provide a platform for trust from the warring communities over the landmark registry.

Chained Lands Foundation looks forward to a Cross River State and the African Continent as a whole; free of land based communal crisis with its citizens maximizing economic opportunities and fostering poverty free Continent. This is our projection for 5 years;

• Our core value is to implement a communal land registry ledger system secured and driven by the Blockchain Technology. In five years, we plan to cover all the 18 local government areas in the state. This includes the documented and undocumented areas.

Our solution will be deployed online for the general public to access it with any device that can connect to the internet.

The beauty of the Chained Lands Foundation system is that citizens engaged in commercial farming in the communal areas will have their lands restored by the first process of partnership with government, community leaders and other stakeholders. This is the first impact we wish to achieve. If this first stage of partnership is not successful, we cannot go into the next stages of development of the Blockchain application, campaign and resettlement.

We are at the prototype stage and still working on partnership with the stakeholders at the moment. Our target number of people to touch in cross river state is 3.738 million people.

Within these three years, we plan to restore 50% of locals back to their communities of displacement through a series of campaigns and government policies collaboration that will have a direct impact on any community triggering crisis over land issues. We will get the security operatives as stakeholders in this approach as well.

We wish to set up strategic offices in the municipal councils of all the 18 local government areas. 

We have 5 technical team members who comprise of blockchain developers, blockchain architects, systems analysts, programmer and web applications developer.

We also have 3 volunteers who are campaign experts and social entrepreneurs.

This project would entail a lot of resources from the Partnership stage (Government and other stakeholders), to the development of the Blockchain application after which will move unto the campaign stages and finally the plan for resettlement. These have been drawn into four stages and we intend to have a full pilot implementation within the next two years. Our major prospective sustenance sources are individuals, corporations, foundations, government and fellowships like MIT. 

We have created a list of highly philanthropic donors to approach to be part of our annual Leadership Circle. This circle will have an annual general meeting where fund raising activities will be carried out to source for funds to sustain the project for the coming year. These donors will form our database of benefactors and would receive annual proceedings of our news letters on the improvement of the cause which is being fought by the Chained Lands.

We Know MIT solve can be a platform for my team to have the right mentor-ship and feedback mechanism required for ours solution. It can help us take a strong position of connections and partners. 

We understand the intensity of our project and the impending need for the land crisis to be settled. We hope to be considered to fully achieve the first pilot phase before we widely scale to other states of Nigeria suffering from land crisis issues as well.

We understand that most foundations cannot thrive in this present setting without certain internal and external risks. For Chained Lands Foundation, our internal risks are outlined as follows;

Funding and Resources – Having enough financial and human resources is
crucial for our foundation to thrive. We are focusing resources on
partnership‐building and expansion of our possible revenue channels. The
biggest risk to the planned case is that we might not be able to raise
investment capital to support the next phase of development of the blockchain application, so based on this, we are engaging in more opportunities for funding and giving our best to pitching opportunities.