Nairobi — It is one of the most densely populated districts of Kenya's capital and one of the most researched urban areas in Africa. Hundreds, if not thousands, of NGOs work there, serving a community ...
Nairobi’s Kibera slums. Non-governmental organisations, private and public companies can ascertain what services are required in the informal settlement through a new digital map created with the help ...
At least 50 percent of Nairobi's population lives in slums, yet until a few years ago, many busy neighborhoods were blank spaces on official maps. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from ...
A decade ago Digital Planet reported on the Map Kibera project, which then was just an idea to provide information to OpenStreetMap about the Nairobi slum. This quickly turned into the Map Kibera ...
Zacharia Muinde of Map Kibera Trust shows teachers and students their school's page on Open Schools Kenya, a mapping project that helps residents find information on local schools. Courtesy Map Kibera ...
Punch in “Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya,” on Google Maps and the world’s most popular map will populate a street grid with regular intersections, the shaded image of a dozen buildings per block, and pins ...