Map KiberaMikel Maron, Erica Hagen

GroundTruth Initiative

State of the Map 2010

photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12

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

Phase 1

October – December 2009

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

I'm not going to map Kibera myself!

Existing Datasatellite imagery

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

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

Cooperation with the local administration

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

* Recruited MappersRecruited Mappers

* The MappersThe Mappers

Film CrewKibera WorldWide

Tech CrewLocal GIS experts

* international support -- Harry, Mike, Lars

International SupportHarry Wood/HOT, Mike Migurski/Stamen, Lars Bromley/AAAS,

Geofabrik, Mark Iliffe, Robert Soden & many more

Mappers took to GPS Surveying naturally

in our toolbox: Walking Papers

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?!

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

Impacts for Mappers

Computer/tech skillsSocial skills & confidenceGroup cohesion and identityBetter knowledge of Kibera

Possible uses like, Matatu Route Map

Or Art Mapping

Kibera in flickr!

* open data ... all about potentialPotential of Open DataCan be a little abstract in Kibera

* But still ...Disconnect between the what the mappers see and what

everyone else sees

And everyone is excited

But no one sees the change in Kibera

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.

Phase 2

February – August 2010

Deeply Explore Themes:

HealthEducation

Water/SanitationSafety

With detailed mapping and community meetings

Atlas Printing

Develop Entities and Skills

Kibera MappersKibera News Network

citizen journalismVoice of KiberaSMS Reporting

Engage the people of KiberaCBOs and NGOs

Media:Is this all we see of Kibera?

Voice of Kibera:voiceofkibera.orgShortcode to report: 3002, “Kibera”

Reports

Kibera News Network Online community TVwww.youtube.com/KiberaNewsNetwork (in partnership with KCODA)

Constituency Development Fund (CDF)

Connect these voices to service providers

Accountability Forums

ExpansionTo Nairobi slums, Kenyan rural areas, and beyond

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

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

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

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.

Regynnah

A remapping of Africa

Contact us!http://mapkibera.org/contact@mapkibera.org