Paper Mapping
The approaches to paper mapping are well described by Mikel in his blog post called Paper Mapping in Community Meetings. What I would like…
Doing the other 90% in Kibera
A lot of ink has been spilled writing about how technology is only 10% and all the other stuff you have to do to…
No10, Thayu, Mabatini & Mashimoni – A pilot within a pilot
Our biggest focus during this pilot project in Mathare was on four villages: Mathare No10, Thayu, Mabatini, and Mashimoni. This is because our local…
Second phase of Water and Sanitation Mapping – Intermediary analysis
The second phase of Water and Sanitation mapping is over and with it the pilot in Mathare, which lasted for 4 months. You can…
Why Map Open Drainage? And How?
I believe that the reasons to map open drainage in the slums are well known and are obvious to most people. Everyone who’s ever…
First phase of water and sanitation mapping
The first phase of detailed water and sanitation data collection and editing is over. In two weeks our teams collected and edited 262 points…
Building extraction of Mathare No10, Mashimoni, Mabatini and Thayu
Although the Ground Truthing of the shapefile which was sent to us by AAAS was done in three days (read more here and here),…
How to map open defecation areas
Our teams have started with comprehensive thematic mapping of Water and Sanitation. Most of the things that we set out to map, such as…
Nightly Built in front of our noses
When talking about cities that 'emerge at night'. Here is an example of the buildings being constructed in front of our noses. It took…
Update on video in Mathare (and Kibera)
This is a fairly short and quick update on video in Mathare and even shorter in Kibera. One of our ideas at the beginning…