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Thoughts on Analyzing and Visualizing Text Messages

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Primus / 0 Comment

This blog post discusses the challenges of analyzing text messages and how to make the data useful.

Community Development/Income Inequality/Mapping/Public Services/Reflections/Small Data

#HarlemFirst Community Mapping Workshop

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Primus / 2 Comments

In late January, I was invited by Leetha Filderman of PopTech and Cheryl Heller of the School of Visual Arts, MFA Design for Social Innovation (DSI) program, to...

Community Development/Economic Development/Environment/Informal Economy/Mapping/Reflections/Small Data/Spatial Collective

PopTech Talk

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Primus / 0 Comment

I was recently honored by being selected as a 2015 PopTech Social-Innovation Fellow. I had the pleasure to participate in a week long training program with eigh...

Environment/Informal Economy/Mathare/Opinion/Reflections/Research/Spatial Collective/Survey/Waste Management

Rethinking waste management in Nairobi’s informal settlements

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Primus / 0 Comment

Community-based organizations are in the forefront of dealing with waste management in Nairobi’s informal settlements, however, their interventions often ...

Environment/Reflections

Anacostia, The Death and Life of an American River (A book review)

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Primus / 0 Comment

  This recent article on the spike of violence in Southeast Washington D.C. made me think of the book I recently read, Anacostia, The Death and Life of an ...

Reflections

Two and a half years in Africa, Part 2

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Primus / 0 Comment

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 Information Communi...

Reflections

Two and a half years in Africa, Part 1

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Primus / 0 Comment

Africa is undergoing a technological revolution as the spread of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) increasingly impacts the world’s least developed...

Reflections

Wongonyi and the first map from scratch

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Primus / 0 Comment

Two years ago I embarked on my first freelance mapping adventure in Africa. Prior to my arrival in Kenya in 2009, I connected with Ronald Mdawida, co-director ...

Reflections

Mwananyamala

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Primus / 0 Comment

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 most tip of Kenya, where I ...

Reflections

ICT and the water sector: Water problems in Kibera and Mathare slums

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Primus / 0 Comment

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 a ser...

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