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

Joined April 2020
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.
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Update: Eleven people and one dog have been rescued, floodwaters are slowly subsiding.
Update: Six people have been rescued so far. Efforts to reach others in this challenging operation continue.
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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.
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📢 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: ow.ly/l4IO50RhSsb * Deadline for applications: 1 May 2024.
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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 💪 – at Benin
🗺 💻 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 ➡️tinyurl.com/2rd8tm66 #lagos #nairobi #kano
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@IDEAMAPSNetwork Capacity Building Session at the #CiSci #Africa in Nairobi #Data4Impact -Data Analysis for Transformative Change @urbanBlGDATA @aphrc @FacultyITC @
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Great opportunity for a postdoctoral research associate with interest/skills in urban remote sensing to join us @UrbanBigData to work on the IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem project, working with @QunshanZhao @MonikaKuffer and @IDEAMAPSNetwork. DL: 4 March 2024. jobs.ac.uk/job/DFX922/resear…
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''Covid-19 thought us that when advocating for change you need to have data of your problem to avoid being rejected by the city officials #DignifiedUrbanLife. We use our data as evidence when interacting with our city so that they act''. - Thembinkosi Ncube #SDIYouth
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🌍The @IDEAMAPSNetwork website has been refreshed: ideamapsnetwork.org/🗺️ Here you can keep updated with the project and find out how to get directly involved. #slums #informalsettlements #participatoryai #ethicalai #codesign #communitymapping #machinelearning #modelling
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Blog alert! 📣 Fantastic piece on how new sources of data can contribute to inclusive policymaking 🌐 from our own @j_p_albuquerque @diegopajarito @ulbphil & Massimo Cattino @UrbanBigData 💪👏 Adding our voice to #GlobalGoalsWeek 👉 ubdc.ac.uk/research/research…
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Job alert! Come and work with us @UrbanBigData to push the boundaries in Urban Analytics with real impact
Join us! 🤓 We're looking to appoint a new Lecturer in Urban Analytics @UofGUrbStudies @UofGlasgow to join the internationally leading @UrbanBigData & contribute to teaching on our MSc Urban Analytics & MSc Urban Transport programmes. Details & apply 👉 jobs.ac.uk/job/DCS373/lectur…
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"For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich…” Plato's Republic @j_p_albuquerque delivers co-Keynote address at #GIScience conference hosted at @UniversityLeeds
Cities out of data? Having lots of fun on the train to Leeds finishing slides for my keynote with @kabariac tomorrow at #GIScience2023 . Looking forward to meeting a lot of friends and colleagues there, together with our (sizeable) @UrbanBigData delegation
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Join @ChorusUrban for a webinar sharing methods to estimate urban poverty within small areas. Here's the link 👉bityl.co/Kpnp
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“The SPA process … enabled the entry of the inhabitants of Mukuru into official domains of participation from which they engaged with other stakeholders in identifying pressing issues within the settlements, leading to co-produced interventions.” – at Massachusetts, USA
NEW AND OPEN ACCESS: @SmithOuma offers a critical analysis of participation in planning for Nairobi's Mukuru informal settlements, asking how participation was created, understood and tested in this Special Planning Area: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Gov. @jidesanwoolu, @followlasg, STOP the demolitions, Lagos has acute housing problem, fix it. Stop this trend of #forcedevictions being the BIGGEST achievement, biggest #news out of Lagos yearly. Do better! @RadioNow953FM @RethinkingCI @justempower @NnimmoB @DAYOEMMANUEL2
Here is Mrs Koja, and two of her granddaughters made homeless by the government of @jidesanwoolu, after demolishing their house, and that of many others at the Oworonshoki area of Lagos. Like many victims of this unfortunate demolition, the @followlasg , and indeed the government of @officialABAT has failed them. The fundamental objectives of government is to guarantee the security and welfare of it's people. Sadly, the government of @jidesanwoolu has not only failed woefully in this regard, he has also dispossessed many citizens of their houses, condemning this women, and girls to the fate of insecurity, and violent crimes on the streets of Lagos. At what point do we say "Enough is Enough". We demand an immediate compensation, and resettlement of Mrs Koja, and many others that have been dispossessed of their shelter by this wicked and ill-thought demolitions. Security, welfare, and shelter is a human right, and an exclusive responsibility of government. #WeCantContinueLikeThis
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🔥Hot off the press! Dive into the first entry in our new blog series, "Mapping Progress: EO and the #SDGs." It showcases real-world projects and perspectives on the future. All from an esteemed UAE-based #geospatial expert and EO4SDG Board member.🌍🛰️ 👉eo4sdg.org/geospatial-has-th…
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Destruction of critical Infrastructure and a threat to human life has become a daily fear for communities in Malawi. The sad truth about climate change is that the poorest communities will be the ones who will suffer the most. #SafeFromFreddy. #CycloneFreddy #dignifiedurbanlife
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Our new journal issue is now out! It’s the first in a double special issue on addressing urban #inequalities, exploring how ‘pathways to urban #equality’ can be co-created through research and practice, a collab w/ @urban_know Most papers open access: journals.sagepub.com/toc/EAU…