Land and Surveys lease application to go online

The Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) has begun work to offer online lease application processing and instant response to questions and queries by the end of 2017.

According to a press release from the Ministry of the Presidency, Information Systems Manager of the GL&SC, David Cole, said that the Commission is working on making all the services offered at its physical offices available online through its website, which is currently being reconfigured. According to Cole, the first phase, refining the website’s content, will be completed by the end of 2016.

“What we are doing right now in relation to the website specifically is that we are revamping our existing website… We are looking at refining its content and most importantly in another phase, making it much more interactive… We are designing a website which can be used by not just the desktop but the smart phones so that when persons access it, it is fully responsive to the device it is being accessed from,” the release quoted him as saying.

According to the release, the Commission will be working to make the chat feature available by mid-2017 to afford customers and members of the public instant responses to their questions, queries and suggestions, while the online processing of applications is expected to take shape by the end of 2017.

Meanwhile, the release stated, the eGovernment Unit of the Ministry of Public Telecommunications is also working alongside the Information Systems Department of the GL&SC to create a Wide Area Network (WAN) which will link all of the databases and record management systems of the various offices of the GL&SC to ensure that there is greater collaboration among the offices and better retrieval of client records, regardless of their location.