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July 17, 2024
Participatory Action Research Groups: Mapping Community Assets in Lagos, Kano, and Nairobi
Grace Gielink
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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
October 17, 2020
Deprivation in your city
Slums, informal settlements, and other deprived areas are formed and experienced in very different ways within, and across, cities. The diverse expressions of deprivation across cities is why none of…
Dana R. Thomson
October 6, 2020
IDEAMAPS Lounge Webinar 1
People from 21 countries joined the first IDEAMAPS Lounge webinar. Six speakers spoke about diverse approaches to mapping "slums" and informal settlements, though the focus was ultimately on processes that…
Dana R. Thomson
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