1. Map Kibera University of Sussex, June 22, 2010 GroundTruth Initiative OpenStreetMap photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12
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3. Kibera 500,000 people(?), 2.5 km2 was a blank spot on the map
7. Partners and Allies NGOs/CBOs: Social Development Network (Infonet), Carolina for Kibera, Kibera Community Development Agenda (KCODA) Broadcast and Community Media : Pamoja FM, Kibera Journal, Kibera WorldWide Tech Community: Ushahidi, OpenStreetMap Funding partner: Jumpstart, International – American NGO
24. * open data ... all about potential Potential of Open Data Can be a little abstract in Kibera
25. GroundTruth Initiative … Our vision Create a corps of citizens in the developing world who are versed in a variety of new technologies and empowered to report on, tell stories about, and generate data, news reports, and map information about themselves and their community, and to use that information for action.
Communities – including marginalized – hold latent information about themselves and are the most reliable, important knowledge-holders for any planned development. Technology provides a means for communities to share, debate, and contribute impactfully to dialogue around development, even creating parallel information resources that bypass traditional means of data collection. Crowd-sourced information and citizen reporting are critical means for these communities to have greater influence over policies and perceptions that affect them. The open-source concept has huge potential to change the way development is practiced and allow for greater responsiveness and collaboration. Open source technology and the sea change in journalism practice have far-reaching implications for the poor and marginalized, as information itself is democratized.