Are you tech savvy and interested in gaining experience in the open source movement? Apply for Cadasta Foundation’s 12-week paid internship. Cadasta is a global network of tech and land rights experts who put their skills to work to make the world a better place. Learn more about our work. Join us. What is Outreachy?...Read More

One-third of people on the planet don’t have documented rights to the land on which they rely. The Cadasta Foundation creates tech to allow communities to document their land rights. By helping groups document the evidence of their individual and community rights to the land on which they depend, they can eventually obtain legal recognition...Read More

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 facilitated the discussion, have...Read More

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...Read More

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,...Read More