The Land Matrix: the Online Public Database on Land Deals
Description
The Land Matrix (www.landportal.info/landmatrix) is an online public database that permits all users to contribute to and improve data on land deals, and for this data to be visualized. The visualizations offer both overviews of the data and complete access to the public database down to the level of an individual deal. It is facilitated by a partnership of organizations (ILC, CIRAD, GIGA, CDE, GIZ) and aims to become a permanent observatory. During the following year, the Land Matrix will enter the second evolutionary phase of the project: the integration with the Land Observatory Project, which is taking the land-related deal collecting effort to a whole new level of detail: in selected pilot countries, deals are being mapped and geotagged down to hectare level.
The event will present an overview of the Land Matrix, the technical aspects of land deals and data integration and encourage audience participation in overcoming the challenge of verifying land deal information, encouraging crowdsourcing and accessing ‘invisible’ data that may be available on land deals. The event will explore way of dealing with complex data integration of local and national databases, and encourage activism and volunteerism by developers attending the OK Fest.
Session Host
Neil Sorensen, International Land Coalition (ILC), Italy, @landcoalition, n.sorensen (at) landcoalition.org
Contributors
Neil Sorensen, Communications Specialist, International Land Coalition, Italy, @neilsorensen Tin Geber, Web Operations Specialist, International Land Coalition, Italy, @tingeber
Bios
Neil Sorensen: Neil Sorensen is the Communications Specialist for the International Land Coalition (ILC). For the last twelve years, his career has focused on agricultural policy and communications. He served as a global governance policy analyst at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy for three years before becoming the Communications and Events Manager at the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements. From 2008 until the end of 2010, he was the Head of Communications at the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), an ILC member organisation. He is responsible for developing and implementing the ILC communications strategy in relation to the ILC Strategic Framework 2011-2015. n.sorensen (at) landcoalition.org
Tin Geber: Tin Geber is Web Operations Consultant for the International Land Coalition. He is specialized in user interfaces, web design and usability. For the ILC, Tin is collaborating on the Land Matrix, Land Observatory and Land Portal projects, acting as technical focal point: his main tasks are finding best ways to organize and present data, optimization of information flows from the field to the end-user, as well as finding innovative ways of using online tools in project development. t.geber (at) landcoalition.org
Details
Location: INSPIRE meeting room
Date & Time: Fri 21, 11:30-13:00
Target Group: Developers, designers, visualization experts, anyone interested in the topic
Topic Stream: Open Development