Map KiberaMikel Maron, OSM Foundation

SIPA/Columbia University2009 Sep 28

photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12

Kibera 1 million, area size of Central park

is a blank spot on the map

photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kibera,_Nairobi_May_2007.jpg

Slum ClearanceHow can change be discussed without knowing the present?

The Challenge of Slums1 Billion people in slums today

Current Best Practice: Participatory Slum UpgradingVery very few maps

photo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8259533.stm

High Speed Internet &Nairobi Tech Community

November

Partner with community groups

Train movitated young Kiberans to map Kibera themselves.

Volunteers from Nairobi tech community

Data users invited to participate

OpenStreetMap?Global Collaborative Mapping

“kinda like Wikipedia for Maps”

GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties, Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

Maps and Data are Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

OSM inPrint, Offline, Mobile

OSM inGovt & Corps

OSM inDeveloping World and UN

Camp Roberts to Afghan Elections Beer for Data

SocialGeo and Data Sharing Communities

H.O.THumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Mapping Palestine

we are missingNeutral Geographic Context

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoste/3069220022/

Bethlehem August 2008Engineers without Borders

Engineering Association

Testing Our Mapping Assumptions

Not Easy!Security/ Heat!/

Volunteers to Job Creation

The State of the MapsPaper Maps, Geodata Sharing, Piracy

Mappers!

From Hebron to Ramallah to Jenin

the first “Palestinian Spy Satellite”

(kite photography)

Gaza January 2009no decent maps anywhere

Call out for help

Yahoo! imagery

Tidal wave of crowdsourcing

Collect existing data sourcesand free data

UN, Commercial, NGO, EU, Wikipedia, USA, News

Southern GazaRemote Mappers, 7 days

Fundraiser for Imagery5k GBP in days

2m, mid-Januaryfrom Digital Globe

JumpStart entersGaza in March

local knowledge

Gaza City today

Applications and Use Nationalized Routing

Arabic Maps

Gaza Incident Map

Gaza Tourist Map

Map Cake!

Conflicts?name, name:ar, name:he

settlements

Map Kibera Details

* Oct 9 AfricaGathering Conference in UK * Oct 14 CrisisMapping Conference in Cleveland * Jubal travelling to region starting in October * Oct 20 Mikel and Erica arrive Nairobi * Oct 26 AfricaGIS * Oct 30 WhereKampala * Oct 31 Kelele * Nov 1 Start Kibera * Possible early completion and move to other areas * Nov 14(?) Orgazinational Outreach Workshop/Symposium * Nov 21 Finish * Nov 25-27 AFRICOMM 2009, Mozambique

Potential Partners and Allies

Venue/Volunteers: Carolina for Kibera, Kibera Community Youth

Media: Radio Kibera, Nairobits

InfoActivist NGOs: Wazimba, SodNET, Fahamu

Tech Community: Ushahidi, kelele, Mobile Boot Camp, skunkwerks

Agencies: UNHCR, UNICEF, Google

AND...?

What do we collect?

* roads and paths and rail * wells * pit latrines / sewer * medical facilities * schools * churches * businesses * community organizations * administrative units

... and whatever else is useful?

Sustainability and Reproducibility

Workshops

One or two day workshop with CBOs, NGOs, international orgs, govt, to raise awareness of Map Kibera, gather requirements and the possibilities of open data and open source. Gather needs, brainstorm and help spur pilot projects. A select few easy wins may be quickly implemented the local tech community.

Geeks

WhereCampAfrica

Focused Partnerships

What will happen when the invisible slums are made visible? The tools for mapping these new geographies are in hand .. not centralized or a tool of authority, but empowering to all and making dialogue inevitable.

Will residents see mapping as a way to exert their presence and protect themselves? Or is information vulnerability? Will authorities react negatively, seeing this as another attempt at legitimacy? Or positively, as information gathering for invasions and control?

Is it possible that geographical political situations might improve if we all openly contribute to and debate within an artifact, with data, in the map?

Map Kiberahttp://www.rockburger.com/kiberawiki/http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Humanitarian_OSM_Teamhttp://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maronhttp://brainoff.com/

mikel@osmfoundation.org