Land Governance Data: 1st Stakeholder Meeting Dakar, Senegal | Land Portal
Contact details: 
Labaly Toure (labaly.toure@geomatica-services.com)
Organizers: 
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The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organizations working to open up data based on a shared set of Principles. With 73 government adopters and 53 organizations endorsers, our goal is to embed open data as a central ingredient to achieving better solutions to the most pressing policy challenges of our time.

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Language of the event: 
English
French

Piloting the Open Up Guide for Land Governance in Senegal


The stakeholder workshop, which will take place with select stakeholders in Dakar, will introduce the first phase of the "Open Up Guide for Land Governance" project in Senegal; identify networks and stakeholders in the open land data sector; and increase awareness regarding open data in the land sector.  The Open Up Guide on Land Governance Data is a tool for governements to improve the quality, availability, accessibility and use of land data.  

 

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Manuals & Guidelines
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The Open Up Guide on Land Governance is a resource  aimed to be used by governments from developing countries to collect and release land-related data to improve data quality, availability, accessibility and use for improved citizen engagement, decision making and innovation. It sets out:

  1. Key datasets for land management accountability, and how they should be collected, stored, shared and published for improving land governance and transparency;