About
Shambamap is the premier Land Information System in Africa. Shambamap has been designed from the ground up as a secure platform for managing land records and property transactions in Africa. Shambamap's Workflow System has been built to cover the laws, cultures, and regulation for all the 54 African countries in Africa. A Land Information System is a system that combines ERPs together with GIS and Workflow systems to collect, process, digitize, analyze, and distribute land and property Information for an organisation or for the public.
Shambamap is generally a web based platform designed specifically for Africa.
Shambamap was first created to cover countries in East Africa but as the system grew, other African countries were included. Shambamap will initially start with Kenya to test and improve its functions before expanding to other African nations.
Shambamap's main goals are to improve governance goals (reducing/eliminating corruption and fraud) and improve economic goals of landowners (increased access to credit to build cities). Shambamap believes that by improving these two goals, Africa's goals related to Economic, Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance goals in Africa's land sector will see a huge boost.
Governments in Africa are coming to a point where they are unable to provide and build cities at the scale needed by Africans to compete in the international arena. This means it is up to the citizens themselves to plug in into the gaps left by governments to make sure that the young and future generations are able to enjoy the benefits of built environments in Africa. This will take time, thick skin, and absolute focus. From Congo, to Ghana, to Djibouti, to Kenya, to Botswana... we need to build.
Shambamap assement is that Africa must consider itself as a post-war condition and citizens bid banks such as IMF and World Bank to lend to citizens who have made Urban Plans (minimum of 100 Square Kilometres in size). The financing needed, as per Shambamap's assessment, is at a rate of 0% to 3% maximum fixed interest. The citizens will then plan and build the cities they want and pay back the interest and loans over a duration of time (several generations). The logic is simple: if it is not built now, 100 years from now it will remain baren. Different regions can convince the IMF or World Bank, or other financial institutions to lend to citizens to build cities. The citizens will then pay back the loans and interest over a long period of time. This is the only way Africa can build cities at the scale needed to compete in the international arena. The idea of building to satisfy only the needs of a certain class, low income or high income, is not sustainable. Africa must build cities that are inclusive and that can be used by all classes of people, otherwise we will be building modern slums or modern walled off cities for the rich.
The next thing about Shambamap is that it allows non-African investors to have confidence in African property market whereby they can lease land and build on it. With Shambamap eliminating corruption and fraud, the confidence level of investor will increase and this will lead to more investment in Africa's property market.
Shambamap's entry point into the Land Information System sector is similar to FinTech in Africa and the World. Shambamap's founder, James, is the son of a banker and the rise of FinTech and Crypto amazed James to the extent that he studied these two revolutionary elements to understand how they are changing banking. Boring old banking was bureaucratic and the main opposition to FinTech and Crypto were banks. But slowly things changed and banks are now part and parcel of banking. It is a long story, but James understood that the entry point of FinTech and Crypto played a major role in how they were accepted by the masses. FinTech and Crypto looked like rebels, but slowly their entry marked a new way of doing things and key stakeholders such as banks and regulators adapted. James called this entry point the X Factor Position.
This will be the same with Shambamap. It looks like a rebel but in essence Shambamap makes its entry point where government land registries can integrate into Shambamap, and even more importantly, where Shambamap can integrate into government or other similar systems, and all existing in the same ecosystem. The X Factor Position is what investors look for in revolutionary startups like Shambamap. To be clear, James bootstrapped the entire development and execution of Shambamap and the fact that the X Factor Position was visible, it also provided justification for James to spend all that time and money working on a platform that is only possible to be built by huge organisations with huge resource, for example, governments.
It is basically simple, if you do not see the land records, you cannot trust them. If you cannot trust them, you cannot use them as collateral to get credit to build cities. Kama hauioni Shambamap, usinunue. Ambia mwuzaji aiweke Shambamap kwanza. Translates to: if you do not see it on Shambamap, do not buy it. Ask the seller to put it on Shambamap first. Before making a site visit, tell the realtor or broker to put and verify the land on Shambamap!. Also, do not build on a parcel of land before you verify the parcel's history through Shambamap to avoid the pain of eviction, e.g., or the cases below