What Data Do We Need? The Story of the Cadasta GODI Fellowship – Cadasta

"After the publication of the GODI 2015, Cadasta Foundation approached us to discuss the results of GODI in the land ownership category.  Throughout this initial, lively discussion, we noticed that a systematic understanding of land data in general, and land ownership data in particular, was missing. An idea emerged: What if we decided to bridge these gaps to build a systematic understanding of land ownership data for the 2016 GODI.

And so came to life the idea of the GODI fellowship. It was simple – Cadasta will have a fellow for a period of 6 months to explore the publication of data that is relevant to land ownership issues. The fellowship would be funded by Cadasta and the fellow would be an integral part of the team. OKI would give in-kind support of guidance and research. The fellowship goals were:

• Global policy analysis of open data in the field of land and resource rights;
• Better definition for the land ownership dataset in the Global Open Data Index for 2016;
• Mapping stakeholders and partners for the Global Open Data Index (for submissions);
• Recommendations for a thematic Index;
• A working paper or a series of blog posts about open data in land and resource ownership."