From now until January 2017, you can join individuals and organisations around the world in assessing the quality and availability of data from national governments. The Open Knowledge International (OKI) Global Open Data Index 2016  survey is now open. This annual index has been measuring the state of open government data throughout the world since 2013. This year,…

Dozens of the world’s experts on land and open data participated in an on-line discussion aimed at raising awareness of the relationship between open data and land governance, exploring the the links between transparency and poverty alleviation and food security in September 2016. The Cadasta Foundation and the LandPortal Foundation , which…

  The palm oil sector is at a crossroads. Despite growing awareness of its massive effects on deforestation, the  largely unregulated and decentralized industry  has struggled to adopt, follow, and document rigorous sustainable sourcing standards. An area equivalent to 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared every hour to make way for palm oil production,  according…

Google us. You’ll learn where both of us live, went to school and worked. You can even learn our political affiliation. All of this is thanks to the ongoing revolution of open data. Never before has so much information about our fellow humans been so readily available. But, as highlighted earlier this month at the International Open Data Conference…

One of the biggest challenges in identifying the potential benefits of open cadastral and land registry data stems from the fact that there are very few instances of local and national governments making these datasets freely available in a machine-readable format to download and reuse. Therefore, we were thrilled to discover that earlier this year,…

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for GIS for the uninitiated) conference held in Bonn, Germany. As it was my first FOSS4G conference I wasn’t sure what to expect, nor whether property rights would even figure into the conversation given the diverse background of…

Over the past year, the international property rights sector has been abuzz with the potential for blockchain technology to fundamentally transform the approach to land administration. However, the initial frenzy has waned as the implementation of blockchain has demonstrated that the technology is not simply a wholesale ‘fix’ of the land sector. Instead, it should be…

Are you interested in ensuring land governance is open and transparent? Do you want to understand your role in using land administration information and how it can help provide greater security of  property rights? We are excited to hear from you! Cadasta Foundation is pleased to announce that we are partnering with the …

Today is an exciting one for us here at Cadasta, as we launch a new version of our technology that has been months in the making. A key tenet of our mission is for our technology stack and solution set to make significant contributions toward practical application of the “fit-for-purpose” concepts as they apply to…

Cadasta recently commenced a pilot project collaboration with the Kosovo Cadastral Agency (KCA) on adapting our technology driven solutions to improve efficiency within the registry and cadastral operations of Kosovo for field documentation of property rights claims. The pilot focused on the village of Krusha e Madhe , a community which suffered tremendously during…