Digital urbanisms: being urban is being online: Map Kibera: A great example of open mapping creating citizen led social change by Thomas DeVoss

digitalurbanisms:

I just discovered the Map Kibera project, the first attempt to map the slums of Kibera using Open Street Maps. OSM trained local teens to become mapmakers back in 2010. Here’s a description of the project from ISP News:

Despite being home to about one million in a densely populated…