Noel Taylor, CEO & President We are excited to announce that we have found our Community Engagement Director, and it’s Thea Aldrich!

Lindsay Oliver, Communications Specialist We are pleased to announce that Cadasta and Spatial Dev are joining forces to build out our technological platform for documenting and asserting land rights. Spatial Dev builds user-centric software tools focused on leveraging meaningful data. Their team will be building the initial release of the Cadasta platform as we build out our engineering…

Tina Arreaza, Associate, Investments | Property Rights, Omidyar Network This article, How a Map Can Change the World: State of the Map 2015 Conference Emphasizes the Role of Geospatial Data for Property Rights, first appeared on Omidyar Network. It is reposted here with permission.

Kate Chapman, CTO Imagery can serve as an important starting point in delineating land claims. There are multiple options for obtaining imagery, including existing free imagery (typically from governments), purchase of commercial imagery from satellite providers, aerial collection by aircraft, and use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones).  As part of Cadasta’s overall technology…

Frank Pichel, CPO Over the past year, Bitcoin has come to the public’s attention as an alternate, or cryptocurrency, due largely to significant swings in value and its linkage to sites like Silk Road, the black market of the internet . While the focus on Bitcoin has been mostly on its potential impact to the…

Kate Chapman, CTO Frank and I are off to New York City this weekend for the annual State of the Map US Conference (SotM-US). SotM-US is the annual OpenStreetMap US hosted conference, and this year it’s being held at the UN Headquarters. While the venue excites me, the content is really what I’m looking forward to. For…

Noel Taylor, CEO & President I was fortunate enough to have recently participated in the Omidyar Network Executive Forum (ONEF), as well sitting on a panel discussing “crowdsourcing everything” at the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Global Digital Forum, both in San Francisco. Generally speaking, the participants at these two events couldn’t have been more different in their…