A private Israeli company specializing in geoinformatics, document digitization and planning and land management.
Land Registration in East Jerusalem:
In 2020, the Israeli Ministry of Justice contracted Geoda to lead the process of land registration in East Jerusalem.
As part of the contract, Geoda is responsible for assigning a project manager and an expert in the field of measurements, who will be in charge of providing service to all of the other teams. Geoda also assists in managing the work on the ground, preparing tenders for conducting measurements, managing the tenders and the contracts and making sure everything is implemented on time. The company also provides an office and other relevant necessities for the different teams. In a field visit conducted by Who Profits team to Jerusalem, a researcher in another organization confirmed that the people conducting measurements on the plots are individuals contracted by a company "registered in Tel Aviv".
The period of the contract between the company and the ministry is 24 months, with an option to extend the period with additional 12 months. The total duration of the contract must not extend beyond 84 months.
The land registration process might lead to confiscation of lands and a mass Palestinian dispossession in the city. This process threatens to confiscate around 60% of the Palestinian properties in Jerusalem, under the pretext of lack of official documentation, absentee properties, Jewish ownership and others.
Other involvements:
In 2020, the company was contracted by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) for the support of the "illegal construction" system operated by COGAT for NIS 20,000. The system is a specialized system that was developed in 2014 by Geoda based on COGAT's needs. Through the system, COGAT manages tens of thousands of "illegal construction" files in the West Bank. In 2018, a new tender was published for the development of a new system to replace the current one, and until the new system is implemented Geoda will continue maintaining the existing one.
In January 2022, the company published that it is leading the Israeli Prison Service's (IPS) digitization process, including scanning, deciphering and computing data, as well as archiving services and micrography.
