Tanzania like many other developing countries has less than 30 percent cadastral coverage, leaving about 70 percent of untitled land which include informal settlement. The Government of Tanzania has developed number of policies and programmes to overcome the problem of untitled land; however, there is no formal data model to guide data collection, data storage and data retrieval of the collected data from informal settlements. This study strives to customize the conceptual Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) and propose Tanzania Social Tenure Domain Model (TSTDM), the envisaged model would respond to all type of queries ranging from spatial to spatial temporal queries for both titled and untitled land.

Keywords : Social Tenure Domain Model, Soft System Methodology, Unified Modeling Language, Land Tenure, Land Administration Domain Model, Global Position System, Global Land Tool Network.