Institute For The Future

Kenya has begun an impressive project to map Kibera, it's largest slum. Although Kibera has an estimated 1 million inhabitants, the sum is a big black spot on any map. This makes the process of community development projects next to impossible as no one can begin to plan improvements on a big black hole.

The best part of the project is young Kibera residents are being trained to be able to create the map themselves. 12 youths will be trained in digital mapping technologies in a 2 day workshop, after which they will map Kibera for two weeks in the middle of November and share their results through OpenStreetMap, a creative commons open-source map editable and usable by anyone anywhere.