Im skeptical about this.
The history of land rights in some parts of africa is an outright horror show.... There was a post some time back about how code is not law, and it sums up a lot of my reservations for a project like this.
So, for example, Im assuming we're talking about a system where transfer of title is done through some sort of private key.
Now i have to ask, what happens when that private key is stolen. Is it like crypto currency, where you're just fucked? Worse, what happens is someone finds something like the DAO exploit, or that thing back in the day with bitcoin that allowed for double spending?
Do we hard fork? Because there are a lot of places in africa where a hardfork like that (which redistributed land ownership) wouldn't just spawn 2 separate competing blockchains. It would spawn 2 (or more) factions of real people, with real guns, really shooting each other.
None of that is an issue. We have been working on this project/protocol for 2 years. Unlike "traditional" crypto approach, having a single private key for something like a land title is simply stupid. We are working with government officials and agencies. If you are familiar with how nuclear codes work, you need a 2 key system, not one. One-key physical systems are completely flawed.
There is no "hard forking", and there will be nothing like the DAO exploit. These will be closed chains, not open ones. You know why? There is ABSOLUTELY no reason for a non-Ghanaian to be perusing the un-encrypted Ghana land ledger.
The "traditional" problems with crypto simply don't apply to us.
And as far as the "guns" issue...That is one of the FIRST things that we started focusing on.
There is a lot of explanation in our literature concerning these issues.
One of the things I learned while getting my second master's degree in cyber-security is that MOST organizations in crypto have no idea about enterprise scale security.
sounds interesting... am going to look more into the whitepaper etc.
excellent questions. these would be good for @chris-bates to answer...
Code is not law.
That is a dumb way to approach "law"
take it from a professional: most of the effective ways to approach law are pretty dumb