A neighborhood map
There is little accurate data about cities in Africa and a few effective methods to collect the same. Take Nairobi for example. Nairobi’s population has increas...
Category: Mapping
Community Development/Digitization/GIS/Land/Mapping/Property Rights/Public Services/Spatial Collective/Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Open Cities Zanzibar
Open Cities Africa Project Open Cities Africa is an initiative carried out in 10 cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, to engage local government, civil society, and th...
Technical Thresholds Required for Demarcation of Individual and Community Land in Kenya
This is the next in the series of blog posts on research into applying ICTs to the data capture element of land registration. The previous blog post was titled:...
Community Development/Community Land/Economic Development/Environment/Land/Mapping/Property Rights/Research/Spatial Collective
Land Tenure Issues in Taita Hills
As a part of our research into applying ICTs to the data capture element of land registration, we conducted a series of interviews in Taita Hills touching on ma...
Open Cities Africa, Zanzibar
Spatial Collective is the implementing partner of the World Bank’s Open Cities Africa initiative on Zanzibar. The goal of the initiative is to create and releas...
Community Land/Economic Development/Land/Mapping/Property Rights/Public Services/Research/Spatial Collective/Survey
The Need for Inclusive Community- and Data-centered Land Registration Within Standards and Legal Thresholds
In countries across Africa, many people do not have access to formal land registration. Individual and shared property rights have not been properly documented ...
Community Development/Community Land/Economic Development/Land/Mapping/Property Rights/Research/Spatial Collective
Putting Community and Rights on the Map in Southern Kenya
Throughout 2017, Spatial Collective applied new technologies to the data capture element of land registration in order to test whether affordable tools for docu...
Community Development/Digitization/Economic Development/Environment/GIS/Informal Economy/Mapping/Monitoring and Evaluation/Photography/Public Services/Research/Small Data/Spatial Collective
Survey of 6000+ plots in Viwandani (Photo Blog)
In the past six weeks, Spatial Collective’s team visited approximately 6000 plots in Viwandani Area in Nairobi and completed thousands of interviews touch...
Community Development/Environment/GIS/Informal Economy/Mapping/Public Services/Research/Small Data/Spatial Collective/Survey
Creating landlord and plot profiles of Viwandani Area
Spatial Collective is currently conducting a door-to-door survey for the purpose of collecting data on sanitation facilities and creating landlord and plot prof...
Community Development/Economic Development/Environment/GIS/Informal Economy/Mapping/Mathare/Public Services/Spatial Collective/Survey
Project Planning (Video)
Project planning is essential for successful implementation of activities. Get it right and the project runs like a well-oiled machine. Mess it up, and the outp...