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Cadasta Foundation

Cadasta supports land-rights partners with geospatial technology and training. Its current site says it joined Corus International in 2026 as an independent subsidiary; the current platform uses Esri infrastructure.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 64–74/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Shared geospatial tools, data workflows and training can help land-rights organizations document claims and manage records without building all technical capacity internally.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Gatekeepers · Coordination — editorial, partial alignment.

Shared documentation capacity can address land-information gatekeeping and coordination failures. This partial mapping does not establish legal recognition, equitable enforcement or binding community data control.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Equip land-rights organizations with mapping and records-management capacity

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

3 / 4

Shared land-record and partner capacity can reduce information barriers to rights recognition, but a digital record is not a change in legal title or enforcement.

Institutional reach

3 / 4

Technology and training can support multiple local organizations and communities, with reach constrained by institutions, access and legal context.

Durability

2 / 4

Skills and records can persist, but platform access, data stewardship, updates and legal enforcement need continuing resources.

Scalability

3 / 4

Shared tools and training can be adapted across partners, while trusted data collection and rights recognition remain context-specific work.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

No current marginal funding bottleneck or counterfactual effect of support after the Corus relationship was audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Community-centered descriptions do not establish binding rights over data disclosure, platform decisions or institutional governance for affected landholders.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Do comparable land-rights partners receiving Cadasta support achieve more durable, community-valued tenure protections than existing documentation approaches, without increasing data exposure, exclusion or platform dependency?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. Cadasta Foundation’s current nonprofit land-rights technology and capacity role as an independent Corus International subsidiary, not the whole group or an assumption of unchanged historic platform licensing.

What remains uncertain

This is the scoped nonprofit subsidiary described by Cadasta, not a score for the whole Corus group or an independent verification of donor tax eligibility. The current technology page specifies Esri ArcGIS products; older open-code descriptions are not used to award a current open-source badge. Mapping does not establish legal ownership or tenure security. Sensitive location data can expose people to dispossession or surveillance; consent, ownership, enforcement and platform dependence need independent review.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage