Nairobi’s Kibera slums. Non-governmental organisations, private and public companies can ascertain what services are required in the informal settlement through a new digital map created with the help ...

A decade ago Digital Planet reported on the Map Kibera project, which then was just an idea to provide information to OpenStreetMap about the Nairobi slum. This quickly turned into the Map Kibera ...

Nairobi — In early November, a group of explorers set out to map a blank space in Africa's map. Twelve youths armed with global positioning system (GPS) devices made the rounds of the Nairobi slum of ...

The slums of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, the factory district of Chittagong, Bangladesh, villages in the Haitian hills – pull up these places on Google Maps and you will find little more than grey blobs ...

Zacharia Muinde of Map Kibera Trust shows teachers and students their school's page on Open Schools Kenya, a mapping project that helps residents find information on local schools. Courtesy Map Kibera ...

At least 50 percent of Nairobi's population lives in slums, yet until a few years ago, many busy neighborhoods were blank spaces on official maps. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from ...

Kibera slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, is one of the largest in Africa, but it remains out of bounds for most of the world. It is also one of the continent’s most dangerous slums ...

Nairobi — It has been billed as Africa's biggest slum and even by some accounts, the world's largest. Some say it is home to two million people, others a million. But the 2009 Kenya Population and ...