Land Victoria, Victoria State Government, Australia

Land Victoria
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Australia's Victorian State Government has delivered an Electronic Conveyancing application to streamline the process of land ownership and transfer. The process is protected by the government-endorsed VeriSign Gatekeeper Digital Certificates to secure electronic information.


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With the VeriSign Gatekeeper Digital Certificates in place solicitors' and conveyancers' concerns over the security of data in the Electronic Conveyancing system have been alleviated. Those subscribers that are already active on the system know they have a competitive advantage.


Michael McLean,
Business Application Manager for Electronic Conveyancing,
Land Victoria

Industry

  • Government and Public Sector

Challenges

  • The complexity and inconvenience of the State's paper-based conveyancing processes were burdening the system with unnecessary delays and costs.
  • Projected growth in the State's population intensified the need to create and implement a viable alternative system.
  • Stakeholder nervousness about the management and security of data had to be overcome before the solution gained widespread acceptance.

Solution

Results

  • The use of government endorsed VeriSign Gatekeeper Digital Certificates alleviated concerns over data integrity.
  • The Electronic Conveyancing system is at least 20% cheaper than the paper-based process, and is estimated to produce significant savings across the State.
  • Turnaround times for all aspects of the process are dramatically improved.
  • Substantial improvement in the delivery of services across the industry has lead to highly favorable adoption rates for the application.
  • The ability to remotely make payments and register documents electronically in a secure environment is producing greater equality in pricing and access for subscribers living in rural areas.