Frank Pichel, Chief Programs Officer Cadasta Foundation And Open Knowledge International Announce Open Data In Land Fellowship Open data and transparency in land and resource rights is critical to our mission at Cadasta Foundation, where we are working to ensure that all property rights can be captured and recorded on a globally accessible and transparent platform. Unfortunately,…

As we move closer to commissioning of the first release of the Cadasta platform in December, we’re excited to be adding more great people to our team; Alexis Franklin and Oliver Roick. 

Over the past month we have been assisting the Transparency and Accountability Initiative in updating the land section of the OpenGovGuide, originally drafted by Global Witness. The updates are centered on updating relevant cases studies, expanding the focus to include urban land issues, and to contextualize how the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance…

Thea  and I are looking forward to attending the Open Government Partnership Global Summit  this week in Mexico City, even arriving early to participate in the Extractives data dive hosted by NRGI  over the weekend.  The OGP Summit provides an opportunity to collaborate with members of civil society, government and business to discuss,…

Frank Pichel, CPO & Robert Banick, Consultant Cadasta Foundation and NRGI collaboratively reviewed a subset of annotated contracts from ResourceCountracts.org to identify the range of possibilities in spatial definition of agreements, to extract & map concession areas, and to define processes for automating the mapping of extractive contracts when possible. Consultancy recommendations are presented in this report…

Kate Chapman, CTO Earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend XOXO, a festival and conference celebrating independent film, art, and technology in Portland, OR. It was an amazing opportunity to hear people I’ve admired from afar speak in person such as Zoe Quinn, Kirby Ferguson (Everything is a Remix), and Alex Blumberg (Startup Podcast and Gimlet…