Rodinia Partners with ViVA to Implement Next-Generation Land Admin System

MEXICO CITY, June 14, 2019, (INTERNATIONAL NEWS) – Rodinia Professional Services S.A. has partnered with ViVA International (Arlington, VA) to offer implementation and support services for next-generation land and property administration systems.  Their first project is assisting Medici Land Governance (Salt Lake City, UT) ), a wholly owned subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK),  install and operate its land administration system for the municipality of Tulum (Quintana Roo).  Rodinia and ViVA’s support will include establishment of a project and accounting office and management of local implementation activities, including property and cartographic surveying.

 

MLG’s innovative blockchain-based land data system ensures 100% security, efficiency, and accuracy in land records administration.  Tulum will be the first such installation in Latin America.  Mayor Victor Mas Tah has previously praised MLG for initiating this next stage of land records digitization in Tulum.  

 

“Our partnership with ViVA and contract with MLG’s Tulum pilot allows us to begin accessing the large and growing market of digital lands records systems, with the cutting-edge technology of blockchain-based registries”, said Miguel Mendoza, Managing Director of Rodinia.  “This will put the power of property ownership and equity into the hands of individual citizens and facilitate their entry into global markets.”

 

ViVA and Buganda Land Board complete Grand Launch of the Land Electronic Card System

On February 24th, ViVA International along with the Buganda Land Board and technology partner World Compliance Technologies announced the Grand Launch of the Land Electronic Card system in the Kingdom of the Buganda.  The LE-Card provides secure biometric verification of identify for leaseholders and landowners, which is the enabling technology that will provide better tenure security for the estimated one million property owners in the Kingdom.

The Grand Launch event was held at the Serena Hotel in Kampala.  The event was attended by over 125 guests, including the Kattikiro (Prime Minister) and the Prince of Buganda, as well as key management from the Buganda Land Board and a number of Buganda and Uganda government officials.  At the event, we successfully performed a live demonstration of the palm-vein security feature for the audience. 

The ceremony marks the official opening of a new new high volume service center to serve the population of Buganda, and the acceptance of the LE-Card system as the system of record by the Buganda Land Board.  The new service center is located at the Muganzirwazza Mall in downtown Kampala.  Viva hired an additional eight local staff members to operate the service center.