Outreach Events

From Map Kibera

Revision as of 05:12, 11 November 2009

Possible Dates

• Sometime between Oct 21/29 w/ ActionAid and others (possibly folded with mapping party for our Team). Possibly in conjunction with Ushahidi.
• First Week of November, close to coinciding with Camp Roberts, to generate ideas.
• Third week of November, with UNHCR? -- cancelled
• 2nd or 3rd week of December with NGO and CBO

Org Workshop / Symposium

One or two day workshop(s) with CBOs, NGOs, international orgs, govt, to

• raise awareness of Map Kibera
• generally promote open data practices
• gather requirements and brainstorm possibilities of open data and open source.
• select a few easy showcase pilots for quick implementation by the local tech community, and possibly Camp Roberts participants

Gather needs, brainstorm and help spur pilot projects. A select few easy wins may be quickly implemented the local tech community.

Orgs to invite

• Green Belt Movement
• USAID/DAI/Global Development mapping contacts.
• International Land Coalition, WFP, UNHCR
• Pamoja Trust
• World Concern
• KTDP Kibera Transformation and Development
• Amani Community Africa.
• ActionAid
• Mazingira Institute

• UNEP (mick wilson)
• UNICEF (bo pedersen)
• SIMAC group

ActionAid October 28

Interested

• Jude Mwenda

UN Centre December 2

A big part of our strategy is outreach to data communities in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. We want to introduce our work in Kibera, specifically OpenStreetMap, and more generally concepts and techniques on geo data sharing.

We'd like to organize a Mapping Party at the UN Center next month. This would be a full day .. with some mapping on the Gigiri centre grounds, discussion on available data source, and brainstorming on quick-win projects that demonstrates the effectiveness of open data. There's possibilities of connecting some of the ideas into quick demonstration projects, in connection with techies from the Nairobi OpenStreetMap community, and the global community.

Bo Pedersen has offered to help organize an event for December 2. We'd like to have 15-20 people, folks working in GIS or monitoring, or just interested in OSM.

Interested

• Michiel van Hasselt <HASSELT unhcr org>, +1
• Bo Pedersen <bpedersen unicef org>, +4

Other Developer Events

• November 14 .. http://the-breakaway.eventwax.com/the-breakaway
• Ushahidi Dev Meeting
• Mobile Boot Camp
• Skunkwerks

Outreach Hacking

Building ideas based on Map Kibera data into real projects is going to be really core. SODNet, who are offering to host trainings and editings and office space, for free, are interested in Map Kibera exactly because it will be useful to work they support in NGO and govt monitoring and accountability. Pamoja Trust, who have just come on as a local partner, are doing complementary mapping work along the Kibera railway line, very detailed work to support a community based resettlement plan, and they are interested in incorporating techniques like Walking Papers. Carolina for Kibera is starting a trash collection project, and wants maps to help in planning. All the community media we collect along with the project can possibly go on the map. Ushahidi may be able to provide a platform for that. And on and on, with everyone we talk to :)

• offer to train Nairobits students, in exchange for working on simple projects.

• matatu route map, w/ Meghan Ference

• walking papers in pamoja trust mapping

• Ushahidi instance

• geocommons instance

• map warper

• Brett Davidson campaign to end stockouts of essential medicines. As part of that, we held an exercise using SMS to map stockouts in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Malawi. The site is at www.stopstockouts.org

• DEM of kibera from gps altitude

Pamoja Walking Papers

Pamoja maps slums, in much higher detail than we're attempting with Map Kibera. Talking about precise structure footprints, power pole locations, everything, in extremely dense living conditions. In Kibera, they are only mapping along the railway line, as they're working on a community based resettlement plan, in coordination with Kenya Railways which wants to build a high speed line to Kampala. They are using very traditional, analog surveying techniques on the ground, and produce remarkable maps by hand. This works fine for the purpose. The problem comes in digitization. Back at the office, the use Arc*, and simply place the hand drawn maps to the side of their screen, and attempt to replicate what was drawn by hand, by eye.

So, you see the obvious application of Walking Papers here. They did. The technicals are kinda opaque for our usual crowd .. I don't think Arc* support tiles import or export. WMS is possible, GeoTIFF? I'm sure there's a possible quick hack to get this flow going once. Pamoja in the long term would need something reliable. I think it's possible, with some help from esri.

possibility of this flow as a challenge to Camp Roberts ando/or RHOK

OpenStreetMap Translation

Into Swahili, Kikuyu, etc..

Info-Activism Movie Screening

http://www.informationactivism.org/

• December 4th screening at UN Centre
• Mutatu screenings at Urban Mirror event

PPGIS

print up big versions of the final map, meet with savings scheme or other community groups