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https://app.planning4informality.org.za/Active

Planning for Informality

(with Isandla Institute)

153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South Africa
Civic data, Report cards and audits
city, housing, Sustainable cities and communities, informal settlements
http://vpuu.org.za/programmes/ict4d/checkit-community-reporting-tool/Active

CheckIt

citizen monitoring of service delivery in informal settlements (with VPUU and Open Up)

153a Helen Joseph Road, Congela, Durban, South Africa
Crowdsourcing, Dashboards, Service delivery, Watchdogging and transparency
informal settlements
https://sdinet.org/explore-our-data/Active

Slum Dwellers International Data Portal

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

Civic data, Open data publishing portals
housing, Reduced inequalities, informal settlements
https://spatialcollective.com/kenya-digital-public-works/Active

Kenya Digital Public Works

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

Nairobi
Civic data, Civic maps, Crowdsourcing, Mapping
housing, informal settlements
https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/mapping-makokoActive

Mapping Makoko

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

Nigeria
Civic maps, Narrative tech, Satellites, Smart Cities and sensors, Story-based campaigns
Clean water and sanitation, informal settlements, land