The document summarizes Map Kibera, a project that mapped Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa located in Nairobi, Kenya. The project engaged local residents to map their community using open source tools. Over a period of two years, the project recruited and trained local mappers, mapped the entire slum, developed skills in community members, and connected them to service providers to increase accountability. The goal was to empower the community by mapping and gathering local information that could be used to advocate for their needs and voice their perspectives.

1. Map Kibera Mikel Maron OpenStreetMap/GroundTruth Where 2010 2010 Mar 31 photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12

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

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

4. OpenStreetMap Global Collaborative Mapping “ kinda like Wikipedia for Maps”

5. Map Kibera Phase 1 prep April 2009 – October 2009

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

7. Existing Data satellite imagery

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

9. 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 ...?

10. Everything is openly organized In the wiki http://mapkibera.org/wiki/

11. So we went to Kenya and nobody believed it was happening til we got there

12. Cooperation with the local administration

13. * Recruited Mappers Recruited Mappers

14. Phase 1 October – December 2009

15. * The Mappers The Mappers

16. Film Crew Kibera WorldWide

17. Tech Crew Local GIS experts

18. * international support -- Harry, Mike, Lars International Support Harry Wood/HOT, Mike Migurski/Stamen, Lars Bromley/AAAS, Geofabrik, & many more

19. Mappers took to GPS Surveying naturally

20. in our toolbox: Walking Papers

21. 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?!

36. The Lab

37. * ....

38. * Logistics, matatu, food, time. Logistics Matatus, food, and time!

39. The Map!

40. The Densest Map Ever?

41. Map Cake!

42. BUT What's it good for in a place like Kibera? The question we are constantly asked and asking ourselves

44. Possible uses like, Matatu Route Map

45. Or Art Mapping

46. Kibera in flickr!

47. * open data ... all about potential Potential of Open Data Can be a little abstract in Kibera

48. So we asked the people of Kibera CBOs and NGOs

49. And the UN, large NGOs

50. * 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

51. This is what the media sees of Kibera?

52. 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

53. GroundTruth … 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.

54. The Challenge of Slums 1 Billion people in slums today 2 Billion in twenty years Where is their voice? Their government?

55. Phase 2 We had to come back for another six months (at least) February – August 2010

56. Develop Entities and Skills Kibera Mappers Video Documentary Team Kibera Media Network SMS Community Monitors

57. Deeply Explore Themes Health Education Water Safety

58. Get Kibera online and trained, with wordpress-mu KCODA Kibera Journal Pamoja FM ++

59. Voice of Kibera kibera.ushahidi.com

60. Constituency Development Fund (CDF)

61. Connect these voices to service providers Accountability Forums

62. Expansion To Nairobi slums, Kenyan rural areas, and beyond

63. Curriculum and Reproduction Haiti is possible Lots of interest elsewhere

64. Map Kibera http://mapkibera.org/ http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Humanitarian_OSM_Team http://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maron http://brainoff.com/ [email_address]