Cadasta’s CEO Frank Pichel was recently featured by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)’s Democracy that Delivers podcast. In it, Frank underscores the vital role of land rights for sustainable development and explains how Cadasta is leveraging new technology to strengthen and formalize land tenure systems in emerging economies. Tune in to…

Want to sell your property in a developed economy? Put up a for sale sign. Want to keep your property in an emerging economy? Put up a NOT for sale sign. Not for sale signs are increasingly dotting the landscape from Nigeria to Tanzania. They shine a spotlight on the intensifying demand for land across Africa and the chaotic or…

Which human rights are the most important? Ask this question in a developed economy and you will likely hear: the right to freedom of speech, religious freedom, or the right to freedom from discrimination and so on. Rarely, if ever, will this list include land and property rights — even though this right is the foundation of the…

Cadasta Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2015 to expedite the documentation of land rights through innovative technological solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of three new board members: Christopher Vincent, Tim Hanstad, and Jagdeesh Rao Puppala.   Christopher, Tim, and Jagdeesh come to the Cadasta board with substantial experience working in land issues around…

The vast majority of the world’s poorest citizens do not have documented rights to the land they rely on or the home they live in. Indeed, the rights to an estimated 70 percent of the land in emerging economies remain undocumented, according to the World Bank. Even where land rights are documented, women are…

The Future of Property Rights initiative believes that property rights matter and that technology can play a critical role in helping countries accelerate the pace of property rights formalization while simultaneously reducing costs. We analyze multiple technologies, looking at the tools that are currently in use, the established technologies that could replace them, and the emerging technologies we believe…

There is a lot of data out there, but which data do users need to solve their issues? How can we, as an external body, know which data is vital so we can measure it?  Moreover, what to do when data is published in so many levels – local, regional and federal that it is…