Map Kibera

• RT @mdeblois: My photo's of @mapkibera event in #KaruraForest #OSM mapping party http://tinyurl.com/2d7hj59 #
• mapping Schools! #
• Map Kibera is OpenStreetMap Image of the Week http://post.ly/hDOT #
• A bus full of white people dressed as clowns spotted in Kibera. Could it be, gasp, Clowns Without Borders? http://bit.ly/9eGyl7 #
• just a sample day, yesterday: copy of map forms, mapping, mtgs on KNN, meet with KCODA, Voice of Kibera editorial meet, @whiteafrican dinner #
• today: more copying. CDC meet on sharing. mapping. unicef field visit. watsan stakeholders. MK org WG. coffee w/habitat. dinner w/ unicef #
• New video from KNN: draft constitution campaign rally http://twurl.nl/uh8wc3. KNN is our new Kibera youth citizen news project using Flip. #
• cool hanging with Doug Ragan at UN-Habitat, talking about youth, community and mapping #
• RT @marcmaxson: @mapkibera I talked about you in Ashoka Tech podcast: http://bit.ly/dtpb6s (#ushahidi) #

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Last month, John Perkins spent time in Kibera, researching many of the active community media projects. You can download his research, which features some of our partners, and Voice of Kibera.

Social and community media in poor and marginalized urban communities: a study of collective action in Kibera

• two quick links on water and sanitation in Kibera. we map watsan features in a couple weeks. http://is.gd/ccEB1 http://is.gd/ccECu #
• our presentation to the University of Nairobi Urban Planning Students Assoc was called off due to protests and tear gas #
• reading an independent study project on community and social media in Kibera. hope we can redistribute it #
• Social Tech Happy Hour tonight: 6:30 pm, at Smart Village in Kilimani, on Elgeyo Marakwet near Ngong road. #
• New Video posted by Kibera News Network on the Meta Meta Women's Savings Group: http://twurl.nl/dyba2g. #
• Map Kibera is throwing a mapping party in Karura Forest this Saturday. More details soon. You are welcome! #

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