Open Mapping& Community Journalism

Mikel Maron

Citizen Reporting Boot Camp

January 18, 2012

GroundTruth Initiativehttp://groundtruth.in/DC Based consultancy focused on community empowerment using digital story telling, open data, and mapping.

HOThttp://hot.openstreetmap.org/HOT applies the principles of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development.

OpenStreetMap Foundationhttp://osmfoundation.org/OSMF international not-for-profit organization supporting, but not controlling, the OpenStreetMap Project.

OpenStreetMap?Global Collaborative Mappingkinda like Wikipedia for Maps

GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties, Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

Haiti Earthquake Response

Government, Business use OSMhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Serviceshttps://twitter.com/#!/search/%23switch2osm

Why OSM?You can make beautiful maps...

Why OSM?...with the support of a global community...http://vimeo.com/34404102

Why OSM?...with the freedom to use maps however you want...

Why OSM?...with a set of techniques that empower communities..

Map Kiberahttp://mapkibera.org/

photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12

Kibera 250,000 people, 2.5 km2 was a blank spot on the map

The Map!

* But still ...Disconnect between the what the mappers see and what everyone else sees

And everyone is excitedBut no one sees the change in Kibera

Media:Is this all we see of Kibera?

Voice of Kibera:voiceofkibera.org

Reports

Kibera News Network Online community TVhttp://kiberanewsnetwork.org/

Referendum 2010

SMS @ 6:49 am: Mobilisation started as early as 4am with youths waking up people by blowing vuvuzela here in kianda

SMS @ 8:03 am: At kibera primary skul, thea is good organisation. Pple r being asistd incase of a problem by the local youth.

SMS @ 10:18 am: Finaly,prime minister is here at old kibera p.s to cast his historic vote.

SMS @ 2:33pm: red or green,we are all black,lets maintain peace.youth 4 peace,kibera mashimoni.

Uchaguzihttp://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/08/05/a-big-thank-you-to-the-uchaguzi-volunteers/

Mathare Valley Evictions

Jerusalem

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/seetheholyland/4286441341/

Grassroots Jerusalemhttp://beta.grassrootsjerusalem.org/

OpenStreetMaphttp://openstreetmap.org/

TileMillhttp://tilemill.com

Ushahidihttp://ushahidi.com/

Drupal OpenLayers pluginhttp://drupal.org/project/openlayershttp://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Drupal-Alan-Palazzolo/dp/1449308945

YouTube/FlipWordPress

mikel_maron@yahoo.com@mikelSkype: mikelmaronhttp://groundtruth.in/