Map Kibera

• excited to be a featured project in Winograd and Cohen's Design Liberation Tech course @stanforddschool: http://bit.ly/9XO4xR #
• annals of bureaucracy. you can't sign and stamp the last page, you have to sign and stamp every page #
• we have printed maps! #
• @muesli this is custom, only health facilities, using arc in reply to muesli #
• first day of community meeting. wow so much to review #
• We are awaiting Mr. Bean's awesome physical comedy in Kibera. Please come Mr. Bean! #
• we have been holding small paper mapping sessions, thinking through plans with health workers, at Glory Worship Center http://is.gd/bDmet #
• Two ideas we had today: SMS community of practice, and maps for data. #mapkibera #
• @s3lf SMS is being used with kibera.ushahidi.com, not directly into osm. other experiments with SMS and OSM at http://is.gd/bGYuv in reply to s3lf #

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• "downtown" in Kenya is the other, lower altitude side of town, not the center. US urban geography primarily informed by NYC #
• Map Kibera interviewed at Where 2.0 http://is.gd/bowPs #
• mappers are mapping again!! #
• RT @VisionAfrica: Big event in kibera today as electronic voter registration pilot launched. Lots of tents set up, police band marching now. #
• RT @jlundine: What a way to start! Day 1 of @mapkibera health service #mapping a great success! http://tiny.cc/xjmu6 #
• @joannabayley we aren't doing demographics right now, but willing to support others who are interested in reply to joannabayley #
• "Community-based mapping strengthens identity/connectedness, improves collective decision-making, & provides agencies & govt with tools" #
• @elcovanderwilt we have your email and are excited to find a moment to answer … sit tight!! in reply to elcovanderwilt #
• two days out mapping health in the field, today in the lab loading data! #
• after a morning of scrambling to get machines configured and passwords recovered, editing is humming along nicely #
• At #innovFair finding many kindred spirits in mapping, tehcnology, citizen media and participation in democratic process. #
• sodnet profiled by @techtransparent http://is.gd/bsLb9 #
• today we had @ricaji in cape town for #innovFair Primoz in Naivasha representing on urban disaster preparedness, and of course, mapping! #
• @meowtree Cool! Where are you having these presentations? When can we get together in Kenya? in reply to meowtree #
• @meowtree Great, would like to hear how things go in Moz. too. in reply to meowtree #
• witnessing organizational bootstrapping in action within a new network on GBV in Kibera. #
• what is that moment when feeling and consensus moves to authorized, formal organization … especially when convened by outsiders. #
• torrential downpour in Kibera. poor mappers! #
• @african_minute maybe a fail session at the barcamp/wherecamp in June? in reply to african_minute #
• mappers finishing up the week's mapping, even though the backup generator is repeatedly failing. #

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• @joannabayley you can edit openstreetmap.org directly, or welcome to come by sometime and we can show you how in reply to joannabayley #
• can OSM keep up with the rapid change of Kibera … a question during training today #
• @HotSunFilms need a map of Togetherness Supreme screening locations? #
• diving in depth into health facilities in Kibera! watch out for referrals to the morgue #
• A "Nursing Home" in Kenya is a very nice facility catering to everything, not a place to store old people … unthinkable here! #
• RT @jlundine: Blog post: @mapkibera: how do you represent health services in informal settlements? http://tiny.cc/8o5wz #

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