ABSTRACT
One of the challenges in converting the rhetoric of sustainable development into reality is to use the potential of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) in raising the level of informed dialogue about rights and obligations over land. In order to serve this purpose, by facilitating complex, multi-stakeholder decision-making, SDIs need to operate within a good governance context. From the perspective of sustainable development, this means that there must be frameworks that facilitate the flow of information to relevant stakeholders to enable them to participate in and contribute to informed decision-making about how land and resources are to be used. In this way information supports good governance as well as being an outcome of good governance.
