Two and a half years in Africa, Part 2
This is the second in a series of blog posts (here's the first blog) describing my involvement and experiences working in the field of…
Two and a half years in Africa, Part 1
Africa is undergoing a technological revolution as the spread of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) increasingly impacts the world’s least developed continent. From the…
Wongonyi and the first map from scratch
Two years ago I embarked on my first freelance mapping adventure in Africa. Prior to my arrival in Kenya in 2009, I connected with…
Mwananyamala
I often wonder how places get their names. My interest was rekindled while I was working in Kwale, a rural area in the south-eastern…
ICT and the water sector: Water problems in Kibera and Mathare slums
This is the second blog posts I wrote for the World Bank's Water Hackathon. Together with Simon Kokoyo, Kepha Ngito and Maximilian Hirn, I organized…
Mobility mapping – Mathare
How do people negotiate the spaces in which they live? How are those spaces circumscribed differently according to social class? Which paths are the…
ICT and the water sector: analysis of problems and community-driven solutions (Part 1)
This is the re-post of the first in a series of blog posts I wrote for the World Bank's Water Hackathon. As a consultant…
3D Mathare
3D city models have many purposes ranging from urban planning, simulation, navigation systems, modeling, change detection, etc. They are in general used to visualize…
Engaging Community Stakeholders
This is a short follow-up on the blog post which I posted couple of months ago titled Doing the other 90% in Kibera. In…
Pictures from work
I realize that sometimes words are not sufficient to describe the elaborate mapping projects. For this reason I posted a bunch of pictures on Flickr…