A Russian state firm will map more than half of Mali. Who will own the data?

Two contracts signed in Moscow give a Russian state firm the job of mapping Mali’s subsoil and building the system that will hold the data. The accounts published so far do not say who will own it. On 28 October, at the Russia–Africa summit in Moscow, Mali’s Mines Minister, Amadou Keïta, signed two contracts with Zarubezhgeologia, the foreign-projects arm of…