This document discusses informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa. It notes that there are 146,000 households living in 437 informal settlement pockets in Cape Town that were established before democracy but are still not recognized as permanent. The document highlights efforts by Code for South Africa to digitize informal settlement data and make it publicly available in order to help drive social change. It also discusses citizen engagement efforts around the city's budget to improve sanitation services for informal settlements and the impact this has had on government response and projects.

1. Data, Community
Media & Government
Jan 2017
Adi Eyal
Photo Credit: Tom Stoddart
@soapsudtycoon
@code4sa

2. We use technology and data to help
people make informed decisions that
drive social change.
Photo Credit: Darryn van der Walt

3. Khayelitsha
30kms from Cape Town CBD
Photo Credit: Social Justice Coalition

4. Khayelitsha
30kms from Cape Town CBD
Source: Google Maps

5. Partners not adversaries
146,000 households in 437 informal settlement pockets
in Cape Town. Many were established before
democracy but are still not recognised as permanent
and their residents lack occupation rights and security of
tenure.

6. Original scanned in PDF from the City
(why oh why?)
Image credit: Christian Schnettelker (www.manoftaste.de)

7. Digitised and liberated dataset
(get it while it’s hot)
https://data.code4sa.org/dataset/Informal-Settlement-Matrix/bky6-3za5

14. Photo credit: Social Justice Coalition
Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q2bH71IFNM
The people behind the numbers

15. Photo credit: Johnny Miller | Unequal Scenes
https://www.millefoto.com/unequalscenes/

16. Chr
Photo credit: Social Justice Coalition
Video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gz05AQfPiU
The people behind the numbers

18. Chr
Photo credit: http://mshengutoilethire.co.za/
Mshengu Toilet

19. Media Response

22. Citizen engagement

23. Asithandile is one of 3 000
residents of informal settlements
to participate in and make a
submission to the City of Cape
Town’s 2016/2017 draft budget for
better sanitation service delivery

24. Government response &
Project Impact

26. All stakeholders need to come to
the party in order to realise real
change

27. Special thanks to Julia Renouprez for a Herculean effort scanning, digitising and geocoding
Contact us
Email: info@code4sa.org
Twitter: @code4sa
Web: http://www.code4sa.org
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