Speedy deeds: Zanzibar goes digital to prove property ownership
KIM HARRISBERG 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…