January 18, 2023
In this piece, we will specifically talk about community-led field mapping and how terrestrial imagery and consensus can be used to improve the accuracy of data. […]
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August 15, 2022
In 2020 and 2021, Spatial Collective provided mapping services for Zanzibar’s Nungwi, Chwaka, and Makunduchi settlements. The project fell under the broad framework of the Tanzania Urban Resilience Program and […]
May 26, 2020
Informal settlements are often missing from the geographic and statistical representation of countries. Nairobi’s informal settlements are no exception. Very little information is available on the […]
January 17, 2020
This is part of a series on the Industrial Training of Students on Zanzibar by Spatial Collective. You can read parts one, two, three, four, five, […]
January 8, 2020
This is part of a series on the Industrial Training of Students on Zanzibar by Spatial Collective. You can read parts one, two, three, four, and five here. As mentioned in previous blog […]
September 12, 2019
Since 2017, we spent many months on Zanzibar working with the government and other stakeholders on data collection activities. The main focus of these activities was to utilize […]
April 18, 2019
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 increased […]
April 5, 2019
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 the […]
January 16, 2019
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 […]
