Map Kibera

Mikel MaronOpenStreetMap/GroundTruthWhere 20102010 Mar 31

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Kibera 1 million people(?), 2.5 km2 was a blank spot on the map

Blank spots on the map have motivated me to travel to Palestine, India, and help coordinate in Haiti

OpenStreetMapGlobal Collaborative Mappingkinda like Wikipedia for Maps

Map KiberaPhase 1 prep

April 2009 October 2009

I'm not going to map Kibera myself!this is the usual way I map

Existing Datasatellite imagery

So throw mapping parties!It's going to be a little different than Silicon Valley

Partners and Allies

Tech Community: Ushahidi, Mobile Boot Camp, skunkwerks, OpenStreetMap

Universities: Columbia University, U of Nairobi

Agencies: Nairobi, City Govt, UN-Habitat, UNHCR, UNICEF, Google

Broadcast and Community Media: Pamoja FM, Kibera Journal, KTN, Citizen TV, Kibera WorldWide, Hot Sun Foundation

AND ...?

Everything is openly organizedIn the wiki http://mapkibera.org/wiki/

So we went to Kenyaand nobody believed it was happening til we got there

Cooperation with the local administration

* Recruited Mappers

Recruited Mappers

Phase 1

October December 2009

* The Mappers

The Mappers

Film CrewKibera WorldWide

Tech CrewLocal GIS experts

* international support -- Harry, Mike, Lars

International SupportHarry Wood/HOT, Mike Migurski/Stamen, Lars Bromley/AAAS, Geofabrik, & many more

Mappers took to GPS Surveying naturally

in our toolbox: Walking Papers

What do 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?!

The Lab

* ....

* Logistics, matatu, food, time.

LogisticsMatatus, food, and time!

The Map!

The Densest Map Ever?

Map Cake!

BUT

What's it good for in a place like Kibera?

The question we are constantly asked and asking ourselves

Possible uses like, Matatu Route Map

Or Art Mapping

Kibera in flickr!

* open data ... all about potential

Potential of Open DataCan be a little abstract in Kibera

So we asked the people of KiberaCBOs and NGOs

And the UN, large NGOs

* But still ...Disconnect between the what the mappers see and what everyone else sees

And everyone is excitedBut no one sees the change in Kibera

This is what the media sees of Kibera?

A few years ago, the Water and Sanitation Program, a nonprofit affiliated with the United Nations and the World Bank ... issued a report on Kibera's water kiosks... At 3 shillings per jerry can, Kibera residents pay 10 times more for water than the average person in a wealthy neighborhood with municipally supplied, metered water service...

They presented it to local and national politicians. There was only one bunch of people who never saw the study: the residents of Kibera...

Japeth Mbuvi, Operations Analyst for the program, explained why... "there could be riots."...there's something sad about his concern...

Kibera's people deserve to know the facts about their lives -- Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities

GroundTruth Our visionCreate 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.

The Challenge of Slums1 Billion people in slums today2 Billion in twenty yearsWhere is their voice? Their government?

Phase 2

We had to come back for another six months(at least)

February August 2010

Develop Entities and Skills

Kibera MappersVideo Documentary TeamKibera Media NetworkSMS Community Monitors

Deeply Explore Themes

HealthEducationWaterSafety

Get Kibera online and trained, with wordpress-mu

KCODAKibera JournalPamoja FM++

Voice of Kiberakibera.ushahidi.com

Constituency Development Fund (CDF)

Connect these voices to service providers

Accountability Forums

ExpansionTo Nairobi slums, Kenyan rural areas, and beyond

Curriculum and Reproduction

Haiti is possibleLots of interest elsewhere

Map Kibera http://mapkibera.org/http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Humanitarian_OSM_Teamhttp://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maronhttp://brainoff.com/mikel@osmfoundation.org