Map Kibera has been working with GroundTruth Initiative, Feedback Labs, Development Gateway on this Gates Foundation Grand Challenge project in Kibera and Kenya.

1. Open Schools Kenya

2. Agenda
1. Project Goals
2. Establishing Demand
3. Data Interoperability
4. Citizen Data Collection
5. Interim Results
6. Future Outlook

3. Our Goals:
Better, Accessible, and Interoperable
Open Data
A site for all schools, citizen owned
Reduce duplication of research
(Gates Grand Challenges Exploration winner)

4. Open Schools Kenya website: Kibera Pilot

5. Data Sets
* Kenyan Open Data (KOD), Government
schools data set
* Kibera Citizen Data in OpenStreetMap
Intended:
* Other NGO research (advocate for data
release)
* Citizen Feedback on schools
* Examination Results, Attendance records

6. Data Sets
* Kenyan Open Data (KOD), Government
schools data set
* Kibera Citizen Data in OpenStreetMap
Intended/Wanted:
* Other NGO and academic research
(advocate for data release)
* Citizen Feedback on schools
(parent opinion)
* Examination Results, Attendance records

7. OpenStreetMap:
Like Wikipedia for Maps

8. Expected Outcomes
* Use of Data (and ownership) by parents,
officials, and schools
-Teachers/School Leaders empowered
- Local Officials have more complete view
- Parents can make informed choices
* Informal Education Sector Inclusion
* Better Education Services

9. Project Activities
to date and ongoing
* Inform
* Survey and Interviews
* Stakeholder Meetings
* Data Collection, and Photos
* Website Development
* Citizen Feedback testing
* Printed Map Distribution
* Presentation of Results, and discussion
of way forward

10. Demand
Established need for accessible
schools data at all levels

11. Parents

12. Teachers / Administrators

13. Government

14. Donors / NGOs
Want a comprehensive
school data picture

15. Data Interoperability
Matching OpenStreetMap and
Kenya Open Data
Using open source tools
KOD issues: 7 years old, not always
accurate

17. H igh confidence in community data
Bottom Up data exposes needs and
gaps in government and civil society
information, and suggests way
forward
Potential to guide donors

18. Other Data Sources Discovered
Schools examination results
Concern Worldwide mapping (not
public)
Bridge Schools
Schools funding

19. Citizen Data Collection
● 3 teams of 1 mapper, 1 photographer
Local youth members of Map Kibera
● Location collected w/ GPS
● More than 50 attributes surveyed on
each school, based on stakeholders
● Photos of each school
● Edited and uploaded into OpenStreetMap

23. Data Collected by Map Kibera
(Based on stakeholder concerns)
* Name
* Contact (email, phone)
* Type (primary, secondary, vocational, nursery)
* Operator, and type
* Village Location
* GeoLocation
* # of pupils, male and female, age ranges
* # of teachers, male and female, TSC employed, TSC accredited
* Fees
* Boarding or dayschool
* Building material, roof material, # of floors
* Vehicle Accessibility
* Electricity availability, toilets
* Programs (feeding, sports, etc)
* Affiliated school for examination

24. O bservations from data collection:
Data collection is opportunity to
advocate, and bring schools into
process.
Some data is easier than others
(fees, images)

25. Results
> 250 schools
> 50K students
> 2K teachers

28. Outputs

30. Lessons to date
Potential new paradigm emerging:
Local citizen data collection enriches
and checks available information,
builds community ownership,
increases data use

31. Future Outlook
● Scale up to county level and beyond
● Work more closely with MoE
● Feedback Mechanism for parent
opinion
● Schools take ownership of page and
contribute info
● Take approach to new sectors

32. What we’re looking for:
● Funding support to scale up
● New data sets to include
● Partners in implementation and
network building

33. Questions?
Contact Information:
contact@groundtruth.in
www.mapkibera.org