Drone data has allowed us to find solutions for a wide range of social challenges, like humanitarian aid, resource conservation, resilient urban planning and many more. But as the field has expanded, three pressing issues have emerged:

1. how to produce impactful analysis in a rapid manner;
2. how to then bring back results to beneficiaries to turn data into action; and
3. how to make ethics a main concern in each step of the process.

The Land Portal is an independent nonprofit foundation based in The Netherlands. The Land Portal pioneered the open data revolution in the land sector and is committed to building an information ecosystem for land governance that ultimately supports better informed decision and policy making at local, national and international levels.

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The Cadasta Foundation has developed a global platform to help marginalized communities and individuals document their rights and interests in land, property, and resources. We are seeking a Product Owner to connect our partner needs to our platform development as we implement technology-based solutions for collecting and documenting land information.

Inclusive approach in concert with Mekong region partners forges unprecedented access to data and information on land

By: Anthony King

Date: September 8th 2016

Source: UC San Diego News Center

By: Rina Chandran

Date: September 6th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India will nearly double the budget and extend the deadline for a programme to digitise land records as states struggle to survey land and property, large chunks of which have not been mapped in a century, a senior official said.

By: Ian Allison

Date: August 31st 2016

Source: International Business Times

Blockchain-based Bitland is looking to address the unregistered land issue in West Africa.

By: Dieter Lübeck
Date: August 29th 2016
Source: GIM International

By: Loh Foon Fong

Date: August 7th 2016

Source: The Star Online

SHAH ALAM: NGOs representing indigenous people are urging the federal and state governments to recognise the maps indigenous communities have drawn up to demarcate their land.

By Anastasia Moloney

Date: Jan 13th, 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, killed more than 200,000 people, leveled much of the capital Port-au-Prince and left 1.5 million Haitians homeless.

Application Closing Date - 08 Nov 2015

Job Start Date - As soon as possible

Duration - 25 days

Location - Berlin/remote

Transparency International (TI) is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. Through more than 90 chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, Germany, TI raises awareness of the damaging effects of corruption and works with partners in government, business and civil society to develop and implement effective measures to tackle it.