Media Coverage

From Map Kibera

Revision as of 20:25, 22 October 2013

Broadcast & Newspapers & Magazines & Other Publications

• Planetizen: Technology Gives Form and Face to a Forgotten Place (Anthony Townsend book excerpt)
• Slum Lab Issue 8
• IPS: Slum Farmers Rise Above the Sewers
• CNN: We are watching you! Tech helps Africans hold governments to account
• Uncharted territory: amateur cartographers fight to put their communities on the map
• BBC World Service: Global Business, Kenya Tech Hopes
• New Scientist: Citizen cartographers fill the gaps in maps
• France TV5: Des intiatives pour la paix
• Kenyan slum reporters mobilise for peaceful elections
• la Repubblica: Kenia, il progetto post-elettorale Con i reporter negli slums di Nairobi
• Think Africa Press: Breaking News: Citizen Journalists Give a New Face to Nairobi’s Slums
• Geo: African Valley(s)
• Reuters: Maps spark concern over corporate water grab
• Hivos Annual Report, including Hivos video profile
• 10 Tactics Remixed
• Royal Geographical Society: Putting Yourself on the Map Full article
• The Hindu: Digital storytelling on the grid
• France24: Slum residents left without a roof as bulldozers raze their homes
• Smithsonian Channel: Design With the Other 90% Episode 1
• CBS News Tech: A peek into the future: Slums as innovation hotbeds
• NYTimes: Rescued by Design
• Design with the other 90%
• Next American City: Smart Cities for Whom?
• UN Habitat Global Youth Help Desk
• Geospatial Revolution: Episode 4, Mapping Power to the People [1]
• Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to Present "Design with the Other 90%: Cities" at the United Nations
• UNICEF honoured as a top innovative development organization
• File:Brussels Air magazine small dRM.pdf [2] Brussels Airways Magazine: We are Here
• Wired UK: The Place That Wasn't There
• Unicef State of the World's Children Report 20011
• Guardian UK, Comment is Free: The limits of the 'Twitter revolution'
• Al Jazeera English: Kenyan youth map their home
• ARD German TV: Kartierung eines Slums: Sozialarbeiter kartieren Slum in Kenias Hauptstadt Nairobi
• BBC: On the Map Audio Slideshow and for download
• DRadio wissen Medien: Map Kibera – Ein Slum kartiert sich selbst
• Irin: KENYA: Mapping Kibera to improve living conditions
• Zeit Online: Wie ein Slum in Nairobi aus dem Schatten tritt
• El 'Kibera Journal', la voz de las chabolas de Nairobi highlights KNN
• Shujaaz highlights KNN!
• 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

• The Next Web: How The World Bank is using technology and open development to help eradicate poverty
• Do something with this story, Geronimo Carbonò: Map Kibera Trust - Project of governance in Nairobi Slums.
• CityMinded: Innovations in Sustainable Urban Services Driving Development in Low Income Countries
• urb.im: Changing the narrative of the urban poor
• Human Rights Channel, Kenya Decides
• ONE.org: Meet the innovators and entrepreneurs of Kenya’s Kibera slum (Part 3)
• Seattle Globalist: Pushed to the brink, slums become hotbeds of innovation
• Kenyan slum reporters mobilise for peaceful elections
• Putting Kibera On The Map by Thuku Kariuki
• Next Stop Mogadishu: Visiting Mathare, Nairobi Slum
• Rising Voices: Kibera: A Lesson to Replicate
• Rising Voices: Mathare: Youth Blogging for Change in their Community
• John Snow Inc: Geography matters: Mapping local knowledge to support community-based health activities
• Rising Voices: Kibera: Putting Marginalized Communities On The Map
• Rising Voices: Kibera: “Kenya Needs Political Leaders not Dealers”
• Rising Voices: Kibera: Power Women Challenging HIV Stigma
• Crooked Timber: Seeing Like a Geek
• Ryan Rowe: How does one marginalise the vulnerable?
• Rising Voices: Mapping Kibera - A Visit To Nairobi's Slums
• Rising Voices: Citizen Journalism with Map Kibera During GV Summit
• Visualizing Data at Global Voices
• Cooper Hewitt Blog: Constructive Maps
• Center for Community Mapping: Mapping Kibera’s Slums
• Shelter: Connect: Design With the Other 90%: CITIES
• Global Giving Update
• Health Geography: Participatory Mapping in Kwale
• Empowering communities through Technology: Map Kibera visit FrontlineSMS office
• Design with the Other 90%: Cities
• Mapping No Big Deal: Mobility mapping – Mathare
• Mapping No Big Deal: ICT and the water sector: analysis of problems and community-driven solutions (Part 1)
• Mapping No Big Deal: http://mappingnobigdeal.com/2011/09/14/3d-mathare/
• Health Geography: Harnessing GIS mapping and social media to improve lives
• Wait What?: When tech, dev, academia and communities work together…
• Global Pulse: The New Data Landscape
• Indigo Trust: Conference Announcements – Indigo’s New Grants
• KiberaTV: Voice of Kibera Workshop
• Open Knowledge Aids Problem-Solving on Urbanization, Green Growth, ICT
• RyanRowe.com: World Bank Water & Sanitation Meeting
• Rising Voices: Case Study: An Interview with Wycliffe Sande
• Bounded Irrationality: Map Kibera, a Case Study of Community Empowerment
• Kibera Road Trip
• Rising Voices Case Study
• What Works: Media for Agricultural Innovation and Empowerment in Kibera
• Winged Stone
• Norweigian Ministry for Development: Kartprosjekt skaper identitet i slummen
• Global Voices: Kenya: Citizen Journalism of the Kibera News Network
• PocketGPSWorld: Map Kibera - How Kiberans Mapped their Community
• Global Pulse: Participatory methodologies and participatory technologies: resonances, opportunities and misunderstandings
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: The Hardest Workers
• Scienceline: Power to the people through citizen cartography
• Idealist: Idea File: Mapping Kibera and other slums
• Gates Foundation: TEDxChange: Using Interactive Mapping for Social Change
• GMA News: Mobile tech keeps kids safe in African slum
• Storyful: Viewfinder: Kibera News Network
• DIY Cartography: Mapping Kibera
• CLTS: Piloting CLTS in an urban setting: Diary of progress in Mathare 10, Nairobi Kenya
• AfriLabs: Map Kibera workshop by Dr Mark Skipper @ nailab
• commGap: Making the Invisible Suddenly Visible
• Mapping for Justice: http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2011/01/impact-of-mapping-resources-in-high.html
• AudienceScapes: Kibera Citizens Turn Reporters
• AudienceScapes: Putting Kibera on the Map
• Comunidades digitales o el deseo de existir
• Jamie Lundine on MapKibera’s work in Nairobi
• Kibera News Network Training Photos
• Mapping My Megacity
• Kibera Nairobi mapped by digital learners.mp4
• ICCM 2010 Jamie Lundine
• elephant journal: How To Design for the Developing World Without Being a Jerk. ~ Ben Leduc-Mills
• 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