Media Coverage
From Map Kibera
Broadcast & Newspapers & Magazines & Other Publications
- 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
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