From now until January 2017, you can join individuals and organisations around the world in assessing the quality and availability of data from national governments. The Open Knowledge International (OKI) Global Open Data Index 2016 survey is now open. This annual index has been measuring the state of open government data throughout the world since 2013. This year,...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

  The palm oil sector is at a crossroads. Despite growing awareness of its massive effects on deforestation, the largely unregulated and decentralized industry has struggled to adopt, follow, and document rigorous sustainable sourcing standards. An area equivalent to 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared every hour to make way for palm oil production, according to WWF....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

Over the past year, the international property rights sector has been abuzz with the potential for blockchain technology to fundamentally transform the approach to land administration. However, the initial frenzy has waned as the implementation of blockchain has demonstrated that the technology is not simply a wholesale ‘fix’ of the land sector. Instead, it should be...Read More