Media Coverage

From Map Kibera

Revision as of 14:24, 8 November 2010

Broadcast & Newspapers & Magazines & Other Publications

• Sunday Business Post: The town that doesn't exist
• BBC Digital Planet
• Daily Nation: Kenyan wins US software competition
• France24: Kibera 'slum' makes its mark thanks to the web
• New York Times: Residents One of Africa's Largest Slums Put Their Home on the Map
• Reuters AlertNet: Kenyan slum dwellers map their way out of oblivion
• Daily Nation: Kenya pumps Sh230m in building a software hub
• ORF Broadcast on Ars Electronica Digital Communities winners
• ORF.at: Map Kibera: Offene Landkarte gegen die Armut
• State of the World's Children report.The UNICEF flagship publication and this year's theme was on Adolescents.
• East Bay Express: Data Hounds and PrettyMaps
• File:Kreutz.pdf from http://www.ifa.de/pub/kulturaustausch/
• World Bank Institute: Putting Nairobi’s Slums on the Map
• France24: Internet Pioneers Lead the Way
• VoA chit-chat about Map Kibera
• Italian journalists on Nairobi tech scene
• Swiss documentary on Ory, for release late 2010
• CBC documentary on rural/urban Africa, for broadcast in Spring 2010
• Technology for Transparency Network
• KTN Holiday feature on Map Kibera
• Guardian UK
• http://www.mo.be/index.php?id=63&tx_uwnews_pi2&[art_id]=27117&cHash=ba85fd0339 Mondiaal Nieuws
• Business Daily Africa
• Inter Press Service
• Daily Nation
• LeTemps.ch, Le dessus des cartes
• BBC World Service, Digital Planet

Blogs & Newsletters

• Social Media, Activism, and Development: Community Reporters in Kibera
• crisscrossed: Polyglott Net: Activisme cartographique – Cartógrafos alternativos
• Nestoria Australia: Nestoria Interview - Primož Kovačič, what people from Kibera would call - 'a Mappa'
• BlacksWeb2.0: Kibera, Kenya Gains “Voice” Through Crowdsourcing
• Storyful: Straight to the source in Kenya
• Butterfly Works, Maker: Mikel Maron
• Mashable: NGO Leaders From Around the World Share How Tech Has Helped Their Causes (VIDEO)
• humanitarian.info: Lies, damned lies and you know the rest
• ReadWriteWeb: Residents One of Africa's Largest Slums Put Their Home on the Map
• Map Quest Blog: Map Kibera
• io9: When software fights for human life
• Tablet: Map Quest
• Vishva Samani: Lunch in Kibera
• Alternative surveyors – mapping activism worldwide
• Expad.ie: Karibu Kenya
• All about Africa and specifically Kenya: Maker Faire Africa 2010..The spirit of do it Yourself..
• Change Observer/Design Observer
• The Advocacy Project
• Ushahidi: What is Voice of Kibera
• Triple Bottom Line
• ISPRS Student Cosortium
• PSFK Future of Health
• Sustainable Cities : PLUS Network blog
• Ushahidi
• Global Voices
• el oso
• Global Voices
• Ushahidi
• Unfreemedia
• TechPresident
• The Editorial
• Kenya Pundit
• Kabissa
• Flickr blog
• ICT 4 Entrepreneurship
• Global Voices
• Ethical Traveler
• NTen
• afrika.info
• Vita.it
• SocialBlurbs
• GISNews.de
• titticimmino
• Servir
• HumanitarianNews
• Affrinovator
• Po Ve Sham
• NowPublic
• DevPolitics
• Rising Voices
• OpenGeoData
• Nutmeg Radio
• Aid Worker Daily
• Web Foundation
• Oh, ampersand.
• Map Together
• Hope Building Wiki
• This.org
• Dev Seed
• TechMasai
• Map Kibera: Kibera’s first complete free and open map November 2009
• OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum
• 27 months, Kenyans Collaborate to Map Kibera
• Project Diaspora, Kenyans collaborate with international mappers to complete first free and open map of Africa’s largest slum: Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya
• Map Kibera ekimena
• THIS blog