Citizen Technology and Election Accountability Conference in Nairobi, Kenya
National Democratic Institute's conference on Citizen Technology and Election Accountability here in Nairobi just wrapped up. The two days brought together election experts and technologists from all over the region. Much of our discussions focused...
This weekend I’m headed to State of the Map 2009 , the 3rd Annual International Open Street Map conference in Amsterdam to present on the recent import of over one hundred thousand miles of United Nations road data in Africa, part of the work done...
New Data Focuses on Congo DRC, Tanzania, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda
We just finished uploading 141,107.17 miles (67 MB) of road data for Congo, DRC, Tanzania, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda from FAO’s Africover project and the UN’s DEPHA to Open Street Map. OSM will play a crucial role in some of our...
This week MobilED
will debut its Audio Encyclopedia in a South Africa classroom. The
program is different in three main ways: it allows students to access
constantly updated information from Wikipedia through
a cell phone instead of a computer; it...