Botswana recently embarked on an effort to improve its National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). This paper takes an example of
the country’s effort to improve information for land administration and the problems this effort has had because of a poor spatial data
infrastructure. It then discussed how the current effort is likely to have impact on the organization of information for land
management in Botswana. For long, various Departments of Government have been acquiring their own land information for their
operations although they realized that they were duplicating this acquisition and that a standardized coordinated land information
system would improve data exchange among them. The NSDI provides a basis for coordination.