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, and learn from, real world...Read More

Frank Pichel, CPO & Robert Banick, ConsultantCadasta 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 and...Read More

Frank Pichel, CPOFor years, governments, civil society, and multi-lateral organizations have worked to build consensus regarding what sustainable development means and how it can be measured, in preparation for establishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  The 17 goals and 169 targets outlined in the SDGs are intended to set the agenda for international development over the...Read More

Lindsay Oliver, Communications SpecialistIn early August, the Cadasta team gathered in Portland to collaborate on larger projects and celebrate the milestones we've achieved in the six months since the launch of the organization. It was exciting to have everyone together for the first time, and to get to know my team not just as colleagues,...Read More

Lindsay Oliver, Communications SpecialistWe 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 team...Read More