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**5. Proposed model for digital urban administration in Ibadan city**

The proposed model for the digital urban administration in Ibadan city is a complete overhaul of the existing system where city administration was fragmented to 11 local government administrations. It is necessary to adopt a single administration body to regulate development activities in Ibadan city and ensure even and ordered development in the city. The model is presented in **Figure 2**.

Digital urban administration requires a very good spatial data infrastructure with a robust mechanism for data uptake and data sharing among different agencies charged with the responsibilities of regulating developments in the urban area There are four cardinal principles of municipal spatial data infrastructure according to the framework put forward by the World Bank in 2009. This is presented diagrammatically in **Figure 2**: the proposed Ibadan City Authority will be in charge of

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**5.2 Configuration of data centers**

*Digital Urban Administration Model for a Traditional City (Case Study of Ibadan, Nigeria)*

administrative structure of the city and will have a city manager who superintends

There shall be two major departments, which include urban management and city planning that shall be in charge of urban infrastructure and physical planning for the city and surveying and land administration department that shall be respon-

The urban management and physical planning shall have two subunits including development control unit and investment and property management unit. The survey and land administration shall have a unit that interfaces with the developers

The model proposed is meant to connect data producing and data consuming agencies together. It is proposed that there should be data sharing arrangement among the ministries, department, and agencies involved in implementing digital urban administration in Ibadan city or any similar city that has traditional outlook. There are three major data nodes or what is referred to as data centers among the various ministries, one of them is the ICT that archives all the data sets and databases of the state and local government. The other node is the physical planning unit of the state that coordinates all the local governments including the 11 local government area councils that make the Ibadan city. The other data node is the surveyor general office that is in charge of land and property title administration

These three data centers will interact with other clienteles on data sharing. The clienteles include the public and other relevant MDAs. For instance the physical planning unit will interact with the zonal town planning offices, which are located in the 11 local government council areas in Ibadan city. It is expected that computer systems and link node would be set up in each of the local council's areas so that they can be used to communicate with these. The Ministry of Land data center will communicate with surveyors' developers and property owners in the city as well as others who are involved in land transactions in the city. There is interconnectedness among these data centers, which will be facilitated by the SDI center or ICT center of the state. It is practically difficult to actualize digital urban administration without a robust urban spatial data infrastructure. USDI will facilitate the spatial data sharing among the organizations and agencies' nodes that are generating and using spatial data in the city. **Figure 3** shows the diagrammatic linkages between of data sharing among the relevant MDAs for effective digital urban administration in Ibadan city. The figure shows that urban administration is not limited to land administration in urban area nor urban planning procedures but an amalgamation of several activities across multiple agencies and

The configuration of each of the data node or data centers is in such a way that they will have public and private component of data archving location. It is expected that the data hubs will maintain their respective data clientiles and will contribute data to the main data center as well as supplying data to its respective consuers. The physical planning data center is patterned as shown in **Figure 4**.

**5.1 The proposed data sharing platform for digital urban administration**

*5.1.1 Data sharing nodes for Ibadan digital urban administration*

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sible for land administration in the city.

in all land transactions and survey.

of the city.

all affairs of the authority.

**Figure 2.**

*Model for digital urban administration in Ibadan city (author's compilation).*

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administrative structure of the city and will have a city manager who superintends all affairs of the authority.

There shall be two major departments, which include urban management and city planning that shall be in charge of urban infrastructure and physical planning for the city and surveying and land administration department that shall be responsible for land administration in the city.

The urban management and physical planning shall have two subunits including development control unit and investment and property management unit. The survey and land administration shall have a unit that interfaces with the developers in all land transactions and survey.


**Author details**

Zihni Onur Uygun1 \*, Hilmiye Deniz Ertuğrul Uygun2,3 and Ferhan Girgin Sağin1

1 Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey

2 Center for Production and Application of Electronic Materials, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey

3 Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Division, Institute of Natural Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey

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