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Thomson Reuters Supports Annual World Bank Land and Poverty Conference
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThomson Reuters Supports Annual World Bank Land and Poverty Conference\n\n(Thomson Reuters ONE via TheNewswire.ca)\n \n \nStaff from Thomson Reuters will present papers and moderate panel sessions at the conference\n\n \n \nWashington, D.C., April 8, 2013 - The Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, held this week in Washington, D.C., brings together representatives from governments, civil society, academia, the private sector, and the development community to discuss issues concerning land tenure security and land use policies.\n\n \n \nThomson Reuters is proud to be a supporting partner and the Platinum Sponsor of the conference. \n\n \n \nNigel Edmead, director of training for the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters, co-authored a paper for the conference on an integrated tax parcel mapping and registry project conducted for Cross Rivers State, Nigeria. He also will lead two training workshops on Thomson Reuters OpenTitle software, a system in use in Liberia, Bolivia, and Angola to map, record, and document land and resource rights.\n\n \n \nChristopher Barlow, director of strategic relations and communications at Thomson Reuters and a contributing member to the conference's Program Committee, will present a paper on new ways government and technology firms are partnering to create more efficient land and property information management systems.\n\n \n \nAlso representing Thomson Reuters at this year's conference are Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of community affairs, and Alex Piliptchak, senior director for product strategy. Sayles Belton will moderate a session on government programs to improve urban land use and generate revenue to support land administration. Piliptchak will moderate a session on how governments benefit from investing in spatially enabled land and property information systems. \n\n \n \nThe Land and Poverty Conference started as a gathering of 10 people in 1999. This year, more than 900 delegates representing 90 countries will attend. \"This growth in attendance and broad geographic representation speak volumes to the growing awareness of how land rights impact so many facets of social and economic growth,\" said Bill McKinzie, executive vice president at Thomson Reuters.\n\n \n \nKlaus Deininger, lead economist in the World Bank's Research Department and author of the 201...