IDEAMAPS Network

Community mappers, demographers, and spatial data scientists integrating methods to map deprived "slum" areas routinely and accurately at scale.

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

📣LIVE @WUF_UNHabitat for Leveraging Digital Technologies to Solve the Last-Mile-Problems for Localizing SDG 11 Indicators on Housing and Informal Settlements. 📷 Instructions to join us here 📷https://t.co/yQ2qJCrkkP Event info: https://t.co/bzm6861QgK

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Fantastic insights from Participatory Action Research groups in Nigeria and Kenya led by our partners at @UnilagNigeria and @aphrc
#WUF12 #ItAllStartsAtHome #ItAllStartsLocally #ItAllStartsTogether #ItAllStartsNow

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Another opportunity to join us @WUF_UNHabitat for Transforming Urban Futures: Data, Climate Justice, and Community Co-Production. We have great virtual coverage. 🖥️ Instructions to join us here ➡️ https://t.co/yQ2qJCrkkP
Event info: https://t.co/vAHqDlkoNz

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Another opportunity to join us @WUF_UNHabitat for Transforming Urban Futures: Data, Climate Justice, and Community Co-Production. We have great virtual coverage. 🖥️ Instructions to join us here ➡️ https://t.co/yQ2qJCrkkP
Event info: https://t.co/vAHqDlkoNz

[#CommunityMapper. @nicerawanjiruki]

Will be speaking about Data innovations for mapping Urban Depreived areas at @WUF_UNHabitat @Wanavijiji_sdi @sdi_net join me in Room 9 multipurpose hall.

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Another full house @WUF_UNHabitat
for Inclusive Data Innovations for Mapping Urban Deprived Areas, Peripheral Territories, and Informal Settlements. We have great virtual coverage. 🖥️Instructions to join us here ➡️ https://t.co/yQ2qJCrkkP

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Join us LIVE online @WUF_UNHabitat for Inclusive Data Innovations for Mapping Urban Deprived Areas, Peripheral Territories, and Informal Settlements. We have great virtual coverage. Instructions here ➡️ https://t.co/yQ2qJCrkkP

Further event info here ➡️ https://t.co/WfrwJQPmp8

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Join us LIVE online @WUF_UNHabitat for Inclusive Data Innovations for Mapping Urban Deprived Areas, Peripheral Territories, and Informal Settlements. We have great virtual coverage. Instructions here ➡️ https://t.co/yQ2qJCrkkP

Further event info here ➡️ https://t.co/WfrwJQPmp8

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Full house at Inclusive Data and Digital Tools for Informal Settlements ⁦@WUF_UNHabitat⁩ — our new tool is now LIVE 🚀➡️ https://t.co/2m8KIKGgBa
#datavalidation #WUF12

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Want to see the IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem Platform in action? Check out this introduction video below which takes you through some of the main features of our new tool, launching on 5 November 2024 at the @WUF_UNHabitat in Cairo ⬇️
#UserValidation
https://t.co/YlVi4wZcXl

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

IDEAMAPS Network team members will be leading several events at the World Urban Forum in Cairo, Egypt from 4 to 8 November 2024.

Here’s the lineup of our events ⬇️
https://t.co/G94wz9JOST
#WUF12 #ItAllStartsAtHome #ItAllStartsLocally #ItAllStartsTogether #ItAllStartsNow

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

We’re launching the first public version of the IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem Platform at the World Urban Forum in Cairo this November 🚀 Stay tuned for more about how you can explore and interact with our tool after its official release. 🌐 #ItAllStartsLocally #Lagos #Kano #Nairobi

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

🗺️Read more about our latest activities to gather data on community assets and update OpenStreetMap.
https://t.co/BlPRmSfXpq
Thank you to all participants for contributing to more reflective maps of essential resources and landmarks.👏

#CommunityMapping #ParticipatoryResearch

[Kenya Red Cross @KenyaRedCross]

Update: Eleven people and one dog have been rescued, floodwaters are slowly subsiding.

[Kenya Red Cross @KenyaRedCross]

Eighteen people, including 11 adults and 7 children, have just been rescued by our Red Cross Action Team in Mradi, Mathare 4A, after becoming stranded due to floodwaters caused by heavy rains last night in Nairobi.

The rainfall affected numerous areas throughout the city. Other life saving interventions are ongoing in other parts of the country.

[UBDC @UrbanBigData]

📢 Job opportunity! We're hiring a Research Associate to work on our IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem project to co-design and develop a participatory data-modelling ecosystem to improve deprived area mapping. Full details: https://t.co/t5wxt5oAxM

* Deadline for applications: 1 May 2024.

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

💡Share your experiences, methodologies, and digital innovations in engaging communities with #geospatial data at AGILE 2024 Conference in Glasgow (June 4, 2024). Abstracts due May 20; submit to [email protected]
Further conference details: https://t.co/qhq8W0Y8am

[JEI @justempower]

Community-led data collection & use has transformational power to advance community priorities for upgrading, access to services, & protection of fundamental rights — challenging entrenched systems of inequality & disempowerment.

We’re happy to be part of the @IDEAMAPSNetwork 💪

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

🗺 💻 The IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem team was in Nigeria and Kenya earlier this year working with stakeholders and testing the pilot version of our web platform. Find our report on the engagements and next steps for the project here ➡️https://t.co/iYl7HAruFp #lagos #nairobi #kano

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

Visualising #spatialdata together at Citizen Science Africa @aphrc

[Monika Kuffer @MonikaKuffer]

@IDEAMAPSNetwork Capacity Building Session at the #CiSci #Africa in Nairobi #Data4Impact -Data Analysis for Transformative Change @urbanBlGDATA @aphrc @FacultyITC @

[IDEAMAPS Network @IDEAMAPSNetwork]

A very insightful day working with stakeholders in Nairobi to validate models on deprivation, irregular layouts, and areas of small dense structures in an initial version of the Data Ecosystem web platform #communitymapping