Land Portal Annual Report 2021
Letter from the Team Leader
The Land Portal Foundation is proud to support land stakeholders around the world to nurture a growing information ecosystem that is informing and improving land-related decision-making, policy, and practice at all levels.
Open call for journalists: Submit your solution story
Land Portal and Solutions Journalism Network LEDE Fellow Nieves Zúñiga are collaborating on a project to spread solutions-based stories about repairing the environment, while also improving land governance. Read more.
How can you participate?
Please read the guidance below and pitch your story by submitting the form. The deadline to pitch stories is 31 March 2022.
Requirements:
To Mark International Open Data Day 2022 the Land Portal Announces New Call for Data Stories
One of our main goals and missions at the Land Portal is to help democratize the information landscape on land. Our annual Data Stories Contest aims to do just this, by allowing all those using land data to be able to tell their stories in a compelling way.
Updated SDG Land Tracker makes dispersed land data easily accessible
February 2, 2022 (GLOBAL) — Six years into the establishment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Land Portal is re-examining progress made on land-related SDG indicators. More than a dozen land-related indicators are housed over five SDG goals. The newly updated SDG Land Tracker features completely revised and updated narratives for 13 land-related indicators describing why the indicator is important and how the indicators are measured and monitored.
Thirty-five New Country Portfolios Feature Breadth of Land Governance Challenges
(02.12.2021) The Land Portal Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of thirty-five new country portfolios as part of the Country Insights Initiative, which seeks to expand knowledge about how countries govern their land, the challenges they face, and the innovative solutions they find to manage land tenure issues.
Land Portal featured in the Global Data Barometer blog
Towards more inclusive land data infrastructures: The work of the Land Portal
The Land Portal Foundation is Global Data Barometer’s (GDB) partner, which provided key input and support to develop the land module. The Land Portal works to develop an open land data ecosystem to improve decision making and policy through making land data and information more accessible and available.
LEADING THE OPEN DATA REVOLUTION: LAND PORTAL AND OPEN DATA CHARTER PUBLISH OPEN UP GUIDE ON LAND GOVERNANCE
19 May 2021 (GLOBAL) — The Land Portal and Open Data Charter are launching the Open Up Guide on Land Governance, the latest addition to a lauded series of practical guides for governments to address key policy changes. This launch comes as part of the Open Gov Week (OGW), an annual call-to-action to transform the way governments serve their citizens.
Press Release: Responsible Land-Based Investment Navigator (RLBI) 2.0
Responsible Land-Based Investment Navigator (RLBI) 2.0 Provides Expanded Access to Resources and Information on Land Investments
The Land Portal launches third annual land data stories contest
In honor of International Open Data Day, having taken place on March 6th, we would like to invite you to submit your data story to the Land Portal. Read more below!
Why submit a data story?
State of land information in South Africa
Uncovering South Africa's land information ecosystem
Land issues are at the heart of South Africa's struggles to overcome the legacy of over 300 years of white minority rule and apartheid. In spite of extensive land reforms to change the historic patterns and achieve justice in South Africa, land access, use, ownership and governance continue to mirror historic patterns of racial inequality.
Announcing the beta launch of the Land Portal’s Geoportal!
In the last ten years, the Land Portal has grown from being ‘simply’ a gateway to better access land data and information that is fragmented across the web, to a trusted knowledge broker that makes a difference by emphasizing data use and impact. In this time, we have accompanied our users to interact with land data in the ways that suit them best. We have told data stories, so that easily digestible content and context behind land and property rights data can be provided.
Land Portal Foundation Launches Thematic Portfolio on Land and Corruption
The Land Portal Foundation has published a Thematic Portfolio on Land & Corruption to provide greater understanding and promote awareness of the intersection of these critical issues.