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November 21, 2024
IDEAMAPS at the 12th World Urban Forum in Cairo, Egypt: Key Takeaways and Accomplishments
This year’s 12th session of the World Urban Forum in Cairo, Egypt (WUF12) brought a record-breaking attendance of over 25,000 participants from 182 countries. Our team led or participated in more than 8 events throughout the week, giving us a significant presence at this global gathering to showcase the work we’ve accomplished on the Data Ecosystem project and several other projects within the IDEAMAPS Network.
Andy Clarke, Adenike Shonowo, Grace Gielink
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April 1, 2021
Toolkit: Operationalising the IDEAMAPS Approach in Goverment
In late 2020, leaders at the Mexico National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) engaged with the IDEAMAPS Network to understand how they might operationalise an IDEAMAPS approach to map…
Dana R. Thomson
March 22, 2021
IDEAMAPS Modeller Platform
Dana R. Thomson
March 21, 2021
IDEAMAPS Engagement Workshops
Throughout the first year of IDEAMAPS, we held stakeholder engagement workshops in each of the project's pilot cities: Lagos (August 2020), Accra (November 2020), and Nairobi (April 2021). Each workshop…
Dana R. Thomson
March 21, 2021
Domains of Deprivation Framework
Following a review of the social and physical science literature and developing an initial version of the IDEAMAPS Domains of Deprivation Framework (detailed in an earlier post), we met with…
Dana R. Thomson
January 23, 2021
Lagos Area Observation Survey
In December 2020, the IDEAMAPS Network worked with community mappers from the Nigerian Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI) Federation and students at the University of Lagos to perform an Area Observation…
Dana R. Thomson
December 15, 2020
IDEAMAPS Lounge Webinar 3
The third IDEAMAPS Lounge Webinar featured speakers from India, Nigeria, and Brasil representing community data collectors and advocates as well as academia. As in previous webinars, the speakers discussed issues…
Dana R. Thomson
November 16, 2020
IDEAMAPS Lounge Webinar 2
The second IDEAMAPS Lounge Webinar featured speakers from Estonia, Nigeria, and the US representing the government, academia, and non-profit sectors. Like our other webinars, speakers addressed the theme of “exchange”…
Dana R. Thomson
October 31, 2020
World Cities Report 2020
Today UN-Habitat released its 2020 World Cities Report on The Value of Sustainable Urbanization, and the report's analysis, suggestions, and tools couldn't be more timely and useful. This report is…
Dana R. Thomson
October 31, 2020
IDEAMAPS Data Release
IDEAMAPS has begun to release pre-processed data for Accra (Ghana), and will begin to release datasets for Lagos (Nigeria) and Nairobi (Kenya) soon. The datasets can be used to model…
Dana R. Thomson
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