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A man hold the tablet used to collect data in Shakani in Zanzibar to help issue title deeds for islanders. Thomson Reuters Foundation
A team of Zanzibari data collectors armed with tablets have gathered enough information from hundreds of people on the Tanzanian archipelago to issue each of them a deed to their land in 20 minutes – a process that typically takes up to five years.
The project run by Kenya-based technology consulting company Spatial Collective has produced official documentation for about 700 land parcels in a southern town called Shakani since it launched last year.
“With title deeds, people can get loans and they will have the security of knowing that, ‘This is mine and no one will claim it’,” said Justus Muhando, 30, Spatial Collective’s technical lead steering the project in Zanzibar.