Our projects in Kibera have been growing fast, and we have great opportunities opening up for adventurous and enthusiastic people. Map Kibera is, at the core, about empowering communities to use technology for their own agenda, all players openly sharing and creating information for transparency and equitable discussion, and confronting the reality of technology on the ground, in marginalized communities. We’re now moving into a critical phase, helping our Mappers, Video Journalists, and Voice of Kibera editorial board, to fully take on ownership of their projects.
If this sounds exciting for you, whether your background is in development, media, or technology, get in touch and let us know if you think you are the right person for one of these positions, and we can discuss the specifics.
Mapper Group Coordinator
Our group of strong, technically competent and socially engaged mappers are institutionalizing and expanding. Guidance and support through the process is essential. In this role, you will
- Assist in the organization and leadership in the next stage of the mapping project; the mapper group become trainers of young people in other communities. Possibly to include: Mathare slum, Mombasa, other parts of Kenya.
- Help support mapper group organization and establishment of a registered Kenyan trust, leading to sustainability of the group.
- Outreach and communication to organizations and entities working in our mapping areas, from community based, to government and international organizations.
Voice of Kibera Manager
Voice of Kibera is a community media and reporting platform, based on Ushahidi and using Map Kibera maps. An Editorial Board has been established, and needs guidance. Responsibilities for this role include
- Coordinate the Voice of Kibera website editorial group and community outreach efforts
- Promote SMS reporting into VoK site, and help design citizen SMS-based monitoring and reporting program
- Lead the design and production of new elements for VoK, such as a Kibera NGO directory, with community comments and updates; theme-based monitoring of services like health and sanitation; possible use of shortcode to report on emergencies and access responders.
Kibera News Network and Citizen Journalism Manager
Map Kibera is helping to get Kibera online. Kibera News Network is a newly formed and enthusiastic team of youth community video journalists, collecting and broadcasting local news and stories via Flip cameras and Youtube. We’re also helping traditional local media get online and get new audiences, helping them tell a new story of Kibera. In this role, you will…
- Help develop and train youth video reporters from KNN on essentials of journalism, video production, and editing.
- Work with the KNN team to become self-sustaining under the Map Kibera umbrella.
- Look for outreach and partnership opportunities for KNN and community engagement via showings, etc.
- Support local media to use WordPress website to get online.
- Develop mobile distribution of local news and other innovative ways to share local content.
- Work with Voice of Kibera site to share stories.
- Engage youth in blogging, social media, and any other relevant platforms.
- Support development of local partner as a digital village for youth empowerment.
OSM Hacker
You are a fanatic about OpenStreetMap and/or open source GIS, and want to apply your skills in new places. Map Kibera has been collecting a lot of data, and design ideas for mapping applications, and we need an enthusiastic and adventurous individual to push along the technical side. You should have deep experience with contributing to and using OpenStreetMap data; programming skills are a plus, but not essential.
You work would cover…
- Examine existing OpenStreetMap data in Kibera, clean geometries and unify tagging schemes.
- Align those tagging schemes with the Humanitarian Data Model, and push through the OpenStreetMap tagging “approval” process.
- Support the Map Kibera coordinator in training and expansion of the mapper group.
- Develop new extracts and formats for Map Kibera data.
- Design new Mapnik rendering of Map Kibera data along our themes of Health, Security, Water and Sanitation, and Education.
- Help design a printed atlas of maps about Kibera.
- Support the technical development of Voice of Kibera.
- Develop web applications utilizing Map Kibera.
Great Stuff! Have sent this far and wide.
I have a blog coming up on Map Kibera – will be out in a week on pradical.org. Just posted a great article from the Guardian on telecommunication in East Africa.
oops, forgot the link to the article: http://wp.me/pKlQw-3P
Hi map Kibera,thanks for this good idea and as a community monitor i would wish to join map kibera as an intern in any capacity.
Am currently working as a community monitor with Kibera community development agenda [ KCODA] and am well off with the kiber a community and a passion to change the face of kibera commmunity.
Hi map Kibera!I am Nathan and an urban planning graduate and would like to apply my skill and be engaged in the internship.I have passion for social planning.Thanks.
[…] They think it’s exciting to see their work online, but are also interested in making sure the rest of Kibera also gets to see it. On July 17th, they’ll have a local debut – showing a few clips at the start of a documentary someone else is bringing to Kibera. In the midst of all this, we’ve managed to recruit some great volunteers in both tech and journalism (though we’re still looking for a longer-term intern!). […]
[…] They think it’s exciting to see their work online, but are also interested in making sure the rest of Kibera also gets to see it. On July 17th, they’ll have a local debut – showing a few clips at the start of a documentary someone else is bringing to Kibera. In the midst of all this, we’ve managed to recruit some great volunteers in both tech and journalism (though we’re still looking for a longer-term intern!). […]
Hi Map Kibera. Thats very interesting opportunity. I’d love to work with Map Kibera program to help change the social responsibility. I’ve work with several research organisation in Kibera. Currently working for YCDO in Kibera , CDC Program- NPI SHAP program in South nyanza as M&E officer. I’m the founder of Kibera Empowerment Organisation (KCEO).