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...
Tag: Community Mapping
Zanzibar Resilience Academy
Since 2017, we spent many months on Zanzibar working with the government and other stakeholders on data collection activities. The main focus of these activitie...
User Experience Testing of Mobile Applications for Cadastral Surveys
Following our previous blog post titled Technical Testing of Mobile Applications for Cadastral Surveys, we continue our look back at the work we did a while ago...
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...
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:...
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 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/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...