Summary of the work completed so far on Zanzibar
In June, we signed the contract for the work on Tanzania Resilience Academy. Shortly after that, on June 16, we visited Zanzibar where we met the Resilience Aca...
Category: Weekly Diary
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 the post I talked about the possible str...
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 partner (Co...
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 read all about the events and the ...
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 including: 89 point...
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), fixing the shapefile itself took a ...
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 of the video program in Mathare was th...
7% of Mathare has been ground truthed
We have completed the ground truthing of a test area of Mathare 10, Mashimoni, Mabatini and Thayu. The whole exercise took us two days. It took us one day to pr...
Ground Truthing Mathare
The American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) donated us a WorldView-2 image (read more) with 6% cloud cover, taken on 30th of June 2010. It covers...
Base map of Mathare is complete!
We’ve completed the base map of Mathare. It took us 17 days during which 15 mappers (on average each day) would map and edit for an average of 5 hours per day. ...