Tag Archive: @mapkibera

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30

Generation Green launches. Cash awards up to $12,500 for “young” ideas for greening Vancouver. http://ow.ly/3GOFs # Pradically All the Time is out! http://bit.ly/gAKp0r ▸ Top stories today by @andrewsimms_nef @virtualactivism # I ♥ the next web @TNW … awesome site. # Parking with the dead .. http://ow.ly/3INz1 # @samroddick good luck! will we be able…

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

Some stories of hope … by @practicalrad http://t.co/Yni2fhk # Wonder if Ford will attend events like this? Bloomberg, Miller&C40 mayors on sustainable cities- http://huff.to/b2tjYU @richard_florida # George “Sulu” Takei speaks out against Anti-Gay School Board Member. I respect Star Trek, a show ahead of its time. http://ow.ly/33y5Z # facebook .. she be down, down, down….

Nairobi Reflection 3: High Touch/Low Tech

Community Mapping has always been quite an amazing tool – it localizes knowledge, draws on the “mappers” personal and community experiences, identifies interconnectedness – all this coming together and increasing social capital (if you are interested in the concepts of social capital read Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone; to better understand how it relates to mapping,…