Map Kibera is a project that mapped the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya which had previously been an unlabeled blank spot on maps. The project recruited local residents to map important locations using GPS devices from October 2009 to August 2010. Mappers documented roads, water points, schools, and other facilities. The mapping data and community engagement empowered residents and improved access to services. The project also trained mappers in technology and journalism skills. Its goals were to create open data, support local organizations, and empower citizens through mapping their own communities.
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Map Kibera
1. Map Kibera
Mikel Maron, Erica Hagen
GroundTruth Initiative
State of the Map 2010
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7. So throw mapping parties!
It's going to be a little different than Silicon Valley
8. Partners and Allies
Broadcast and Community Media: Pamoja FM, Kibera
Journal, Kibera WorldWide
NGOs/CBOs: SODNET, Carolina for Kibera, KCODA
Tech Community: Ushahidi, Mobile Boot Camp, skunkwerks,
OpenStreetMap
15. * international support -- Harry, Mike,
Lars
International Support
Harry Wood/HOT, Mike Migurski/Stamen, Lars Bromley/AAAS,
Geofabrik, Mark Iliffe, Robert Soden & many more
18. What did we collect?
roads and paths and rail
water points
pit latrines / sewer
medical facilities
schools
churches/mosques
businesses
community organizations
administrative units
and whatever else is
useful?!
45. * Potential all about potential
open data ... of Open Data
Can be a little abstract in Kibera
46. * But still ...Disconnect between the
And everyone is excited
But no the mappersthe and whatin
what one sees see change
everyone else sees
Kibera
47. GroundTruth Initiative … Our
vision
Create a corps of citizens in the
developing world who are versed in a
variety of new technologies and
empowered to report on, tell stories
about, and generate data and map
information about themselves and their
community, and to use that information
for action.
We call this process community
information empowerment and
development.
65. Challenges for OSM in developing countries
volunteer culture is not the same in
poor countries
must be a road to paid work
or clear benefit to someone's job
66. Challenges for OSM in developing countries
the map made is not enough
the digital divide is both
infrastructral and social
otherwise, you're simply
contributing to status quo of
inequality
67. Challenges for OSM in developing countries
large agencies (UN, govt) are very
interested
how to support them without simply
allowing them to co-opt the work the
citizens are doing
68. Challenges for OSM in developing countries
without extra effort, open source
and open data really just means,
open to the elites which is not
actually open at all.