Map Kibera

Map Kibera Mikel Maron, OSM Foundation SIPA/Columbia University 2009 Sep 28 photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12

Kibera 1 million, area size of Central park is a blank spot on the map

Slum Clearance How can change be discussed without knowing the present? photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kibera,_Nairobi_May_2007.jpg

The Challenge of Slums 1 Billion people in slums today Current Best Practice: Participatory Slum Upgrading Very very few maps

High Speed Internet & Nairobi Tech Community photo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8259533.stm

November Partner with community groups Train movitated young Kiberans to map Kibera themselves. Volunteers from Nairobi tech community Data users invited to participate

OpenStreetMap? Global Collaborative Mapping “kinda like Wikipedia for Maps”

GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties, Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

Maps and Data are Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

OSM in Print, Offline, Mobile

OSM in Govt & Corps

OSM in Developing World and UN

Camp Roberts to Afghan Elections Beer for Data

SocialGeo and Data Sharing Communities

H.O.T Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Mapping Palestine

we are missing Neutral Geographic Context photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoste/3069220022/

Bethlehem August 2008 Engineers without Borders Engineering Association

Testing Our Mapping Assumptions

Not Easy! Security/ Heat!/ Volunteers to Job Creation

The State of the Maps Paper Maps, Geodata Sharing, Piracy

Mappers!

From Hebron to Ramallah to Jenin

the first “Palestinian Spy Satellite” (kite photography)

Gaza January 2009 no decent maps anywhere

Call out for help

Yahoo! imagery

Tidal wave of crowdsourcing

Collect existing data sources and free data UN, Commercial, NGO, EU, Wikipedia, USA, News

Southern Gaza Remote Mappers, 7 days

Fundraiser for Imagery 5k GBP in days

2m, mid-January from Digital Globe

JumpStart enters Gaza in March

local knowledge

Gaza City today

Applications and Use Nationalized Routing

Arabic Maps

Gaza Incident Map

Gaza Tourist Map

Map Cake!

Conflicts? name, name:ar, name:he settlements

Map Kibera Details * Oct 9 AfricaGathering Conference in UK * Oct 14 CrisisMapping Conference in Cleveland * Jubal travelling to region starting in October * Oct 20 Mikel and Erica arrive Nairobi * Oct 26 AfricaGIS * Oct 30 WhereKampala * Oct 31 Kelele * Nov 1 Start Kibera * Possible early completion and move to other areas * Nov 14(?) Orgazinational Outreach Workshop/Symposium * Nov 21 Finish * Nov 25-27 AFRICOMM 2009, Mozambique

Potential Partners and Allies Venue/Volunteers: Carolina for Kibera, Kibera Community Youth Media: Radio Kibera, Nairobits InfoActivist NGOs: Wazimba, SodNET, Fahamu Tech Community: Ushahidi, kelele, Mobile Boot Camp, skunkwerks Agencies: UNHCR, UNICEF, Google AND...?

What do we collect? * roads and paths and rail * wells * pit latrines / sewer * medical facilities * schools * churches * businesses * community organizations * administrative units ... and whatever else is useful?

Sustainability and Reproducibility Workshops One or two day workshop with CBOs, NGOs, international orgs, govt, to raise awareness of Map Kibera, gather requirements and the possibilities of open data and open source. Gather needs, brainstorm and help spur pilot projects. A select few easy wins may be quickly implemented the local tech community. Geeks WhereCampAfrica Focused Partnerships

What will happen when the invisible slums are made visible? The tools for mapping these new geographies are in hand .. not centralized or a tool of authority, but empowering to all and making dialogue inevitable. Will residents see mapping as a way to exert their presence and protect themselves? Or is information vulnerability? Will authorities react negatively, seeing this as another attempt at legitimacy? Or positively, as information gathering for invasions and control? Is it possible that geographical political situations might improve if we all openly contribute to and debate within an artifact, with data, in the map?

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