Emerging

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Following up on the process.

It strikes me that it might be better to find leaders in the community who would like to have such a map and already know how to use it. But that might not be possible or?

If not then we have to meet with those who have participated in these meetings (the lead people) and individually help them to make use of information. I wonder if there is someone with expertise in this who we could partner with? For instance, Oxfam or Amnesty? I think that we have specialized skills, and those do not include helping train in advocacy tec hniques.

Let us think a bit about our role:

• Intermediary: we can link local players to the more powerful organizations.
• Trainer on tools
• What about – we may need an advocate partner to make use of all this. I don’t really think our ultimate role is to assist that way, but it’s missing currently.

I think those we’ve met with in the community are only partly inspired to act on the new tools. They don’t completely understand.

What we’re doing is actually quite unusual. We’re meeting on issue areas, but not in order to support that issue. We have no expertise in education. But we’re tool-providers and supporting general information access. Therefore, it’s a bit more subtle. I think we have to clearly express our role and think about HOW when you provide a tool that wasn’t asked for people are going to make use of it within their current workflow. We can’t ask them to change their workflow too much or it won’t work.

Therefore, maybe finding a few people in the community who actually request for what we offer is key. Then think beforehand with them about how they’ll use the map data and other info.

Agreed. I've been stressing "tool provision not research" in the community meetings but agree that it has be highly strategically targeted. In terms of driving use of these tools on a theme-by-theme basis, what if we each take a theme and sketch out what needs to happen to increase the chance that these tools will live on.

From Themes

Health

Security

Josh

• get Binti a map of all their safe spaces layered on top of our security map so they can see which dangerous areas don't have safe spaces (will load tracing paper safe spaces map onto OSM this weekend hopefully);
• talk with Binti about how the map can serve as a discussion tool for Binti graduates, these are the ones that start and lead their own safe spaces/clubs;
• build out the best */girlssecurity site possible (highlighting security concerns) so it can be an advocacy tool;
• work with Karen to get the mappers hired to map girls financial opportunities, which is another way to look at combatting vulnerability

Education

Erica

Water Sanitation

Mikel

Maps for Data

Collect and make available all studies, all research, all groups, all databases, openly.

Building a system, and/or systematically organizing studies and data sets, would be an excellent short term project.

Also Data Sources, Background Reading

Data Sets

• Umande Trust has data sets
  • data of pay, ability to pay
  • conflict migration within Kibera
  • post election reconstruction
  • 5 biocentres in Gatwekera, 9 total, 14 soon
  • detailed mapping on gatwekera

• Amref has data sets

• APHRC
  • operates in other slums
  • excellent longitudnal data
  • Mrs. Kaider, 0720098388

• Population Council
  • Study: "Adolescence in the Kibera Slums of Nairobi, Kenya"
  • "Directory of Organizations in Kibera"

Reports

• Langata Strategic Plan
• Growing partnerships for stability and development in Kibera, Moraa New Hope Foundation

Organizational Profiles

The need driving this in Kibera is widely similar ... open and efficient civil society in a chaotic place. There are hundreds of NGOs and CBOs operating in Kibera, substitution for almost all of the services you'd expect from government, which operate only very partially with their cohorts ... duplication, corruption, and lack of coordination are huge drains on a place that receives an inordinate amount of funding with little to show for it. Many of those organizations collect information in Kibera but do not share it. Kibera has become a research laboratory of sorts, with hundreds of published academic papers, many of them undertaken with the cooperation of individuals and organizations in Kibera. Absurdly and tragically, these papers are rarely made available again back in Kibera. I am more well read on Kibera than even highly educated people who have lived there their entire lives!

The emerging idea is to set up a Crabgrass instance, seed it with organization profiles (we have sources from the Population Council, OpenStreetMap, and local partners) and make those group pages. We'd make this a subsection of Voice of Kibera (http://voiceofkibera.org/). During our "Maps for Data" program (think "Beer for Data" but in a place where alcohol wouldn't be appropriate ... we'll be printing large maps of Map Kibera and distributing them, and at the same time ask for data to be shared), we'll raise awareness of the new site, collect details, and reports, etc. Some data may not be fully publicly releasable, so we at least want to build up an index of who has what.

Early playing around at http://maps.mapkibera.org:3000/groups/directory/search

Some of the questions we're facing are how to facilitate an organization claiming their Group page, whether we want to have individual profiles, and if there are ways to access the site without internet access. Maps will be a part of this, but we're unclear exactly how yet ... perhaps it's simply a tool to place organizations on the OSM map (Crabgrass has some pretty basic geo integration at the moment).

Building off Population Council report, and Map Kibera collected data. Also SODNET's database of CBO's. Seperate system, or integrated with maps for data (more information could be collected then), or part of some kind of composite wiki?

Draft: http://maps.mapkibera.org:3000/groups/directory/search

• there's an index included in the pdf ... i haven't processed that yet, but it would essentially become tags
• some of the contact info would go direct in the profile
• maybe work on integrating the map
• need to think about how someone might "claim" a group, for editing of the official profile, or just keep that open wiki-like
• would be nice to have a way to add a comment on a group (maybe just a featured discussion)
• want to import sodnet's list too
• want group listing and document listing to be more accessible (like the pakistan example)

Local Cache of Kibera

• Video Media, other community media
• research, reports
• maps, etc
• Basically cache Voice of Kibera somehow

SMS Applications

• PSI GBV Network
  • interested in mapping of post-rape services, ART services, counselling services, PEP, cost/openhours/referrals.
  • connect to binti pamoja. APHIA?
  • child help line link
  • File:Kibera Community GBV referral network.docx
  • File:Kibera partners referral network.docx
  • File:Overall leaders coordination list.docx

• SMS Community of Practice
  • for data sharing generally within networks along our themes. make networks visible.

• SMS M&E of advocacy and VCT campaigns