Thoughts on Analyzing and Visualizing Text Messages
This blog post discusses the challenges of analyzing text messages and how to make the data useful.
Category: Reflections
#HarlemFirst Community Mapping Workshop
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
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
Community-based organizations are in the forefront of dealing with waste management in Nairobi’s informal settlements, however, their interventions often ...
Anacostia, The Death and Life of an American River (A book review)
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 ...
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 Information Communi...
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...
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 Ronald Mdawida, co-director ...
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 most tip of Kenya, where I ...
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 a ser...