Learn more about joining our "Slum" Modelling Community of Practice (CoP) for individuals who model #slums, #informalsettlements, and other #deprived urban areas in the Global South using #machinelearning or #AI techniques and #opendata sources. eventbrite.co.uk/e/slum-modelli…

"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 Joao Porto de Albuquerque delivers co-Keynote address at #GIScience conference hosted at University of Leeds

Job alert! Come and work with us UBDC to push the boundaries in Urban Analytics with real impact

Data gathering,an effective tools for community&city-wide Development.Okerube Community participated in #Ideamaps, #mappingSlum,Informal settlement&other #deprived areas in Lagos Nigeria with #UniversityofLagos.Dr Elias,Geography Dept&other co-researchers visited our community.

Blog alert! 📣 Fantastic piece on how new sources of data can contribute to inclusive policymaking 🌐 from our own Joao Porto de Albuquerque @[email protected] Philipp A. Ulbrich & Massimo Cattino UBDC 💪👏 Adding our voice to #GlobalGoalsWeek 👉 ubdc.ac.uk/research/resea…

🌍The IDEAMAPS Network 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

''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

Congratulation Maxwell!! Mapping #Deprived #Urban Areas Using Open #Geospatial Data and Machine Learning in Africa mdpi.com/2552368 #mdpiurbansci via Urbansci MDPI Thanks for contributing to IDEAMAPS Network IDEAtlas maxwell owusu ONEKANA/partimap/slumap #Space4All

Great opportunity for a postdoctoral research associate with interest/skills in urban remote sensing to join us UBDC to work on the IDEAMAPS Data Ecosystem project, working with Qunshan Zhao Monika Kuffer and IDEAMAPS Network. DL: 4 March 2024. jobs.ac.uk/job/DFX922/res…

📍IDEAMAPS team is in Nairobi! Starting off the week hearing from Dr. Peter Elias about the recent cross-sectoral workshops in Kano and Lagos, Nigeria where participants completed validation activities on an initial version of the data ecosystem platform #participatorymapping

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

IDEAMAPS Network Capacity Building Session at the #CiSci #Africa in Nairobi #Data4Impact -Data Analysis for Transformative Change UrbanBigData APHRC Faculty ITC | University of Twente @

Visualising #spatialdata together at Citizen Science Africa APHRC

🗺 💻 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

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 IDEAMAPS Network 💪

💡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: lnkd.in/evc3UkQG

📢 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.

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

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

🗺️Read more about our latest activities to gather data on community assets and update OpenStreetMap. tinyurl.com/3fjrta8a Thank you to all participants for contributing to more reflective maps of essential resources and landmarks.👏 #CommunityMapping #ParticipatoryResearch