February 10, 2016
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 […]
- All
- Community Development
- Community Land
- Covid-19
- Crime
- Data
- Design
- Digitization
- Economic Development
- Environment
- Gender
- GIS
- Income Inequality
- Informal Economy
- Land
- Location-Based Services
- Machine Learning
- Mapping
- Mathare
- Micro-tasking
- Mobility mapping
- Monitoring and Evaluation
- Mtaa
- OpenStreetMap
- Opinion
- Photography
- Platform Development
- Property Rights
- Public Services
- Reflections
- Research
- Resilience
- Safety
- Serurity
- Small Data
- Spatial Collective
- Survey
- Terrestrial Imagery
- Training
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
- User Experience Testing
- Violence
- Waste Management
- Youth
April 17, 2015
The “World is coming,” said the deputy secretary of Kililana Farmers Association during our LAPSSET conflict risk mapping exercise in old Lamu Town on Kenya’s coast. […]
December 16, 2014
Nairobi’s population has increased more than tenfold in the last 50 years.[1] This rapid urbanization brought with it a two-tier development process where some areas are […]
September 8, 2014
Community-based organizations are in the forefront of dealing with waste management in Nairobi’s informal settlements, however, their interventions often fall short of becoming sustainable and profitable […]
July 31, 2014
This post was cross-posted from Spatial Collective’s blog. Informal settlements are often missing from geographic and statistical representation of their countries, and Nairobi’s informal settlements are […]
June 27, 2014
This post was cross-posted from Spatial Collective’s blog. In March and April 2014, following the household survey, Spatial Collective continued their research into informal waste management activities […]
June 24, 2014
This post was cross-posted from Spatial Collective‘s blog. In November 2013 Spatial Collective conducted a household survey of 1000 randomly-selected households in Mathare. The focus of […]
March 14, 2014
Spatial Collective in its aim to understand various ways groups organize themselves for the purpose of providing public goods in informal settlements initiated Mtaa Safi (Clean […]
February 25, 2014
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 […]
