CILIP | sept06

Opening the property treasure trove: making official data accessible

Speaker: Peter Collis, Land Registry
Date: Tuesday 12 September 2006
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: The Sekforde Arms, Sekforde Street, London EC1
(Map: http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/info_pubbar_maps_3450.html)

The Land Registry holds the world's largest online transactional database (approximately £1 million worth of property is processed every minute) and aims to be the global leader for guaranteeing ownership of land. The database, which produces a wide range of reports and data sets, is entirely computerised: one of the Government's few IT successes. It also won Computer Weekly's Best Places to Work Award!

Peter will introduce the Registry's services and discuss the issues involved in making a database of this size electronically accessible. He will also talk about the development of new commercial services (including e-conveyancing), the Land Registry's innovative social diversity policies and recent successes in reclaiming domain names.

Peter Collis is Chief Land Registrar and Chief Executive of Land Registry. He is an honorary member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute. He has also been made a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.

Members preparing themselves for CILIP Chartership, Revalidation or Certification will find this talk particularly useful.

CILIP in London evening meetings are free and open to all with a professional interest in the topic. Refreshments will be available afterwards. As space is limited, please let us know if you are coming. It would be helpful to tell us how you found out about the event.

Contact Phillip Powell at Phillip@montanaroad.plus.com

Updated: 04 August 2006