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Map Kibera: Empowering Africa’s Biggest Slum with Collective Wisdom

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Taka

Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa, largely ignored by the government and the public due to its &quot;invisibility&quot;. How crowd-sourcing approach changed the lives of people in Kibera, and what were the impacts?

Show me the Waze to go home

Posted on March 22, 2018 by Hans Latta

With 22.5 billion kilometers logged and 100 million users, Waze has rapidly become the navigation app of choice.
And it got there through crowd-sourcing.

Waze – using driver data to build a better map

Posted on November 22, 2015 by BrittW

Waze, an app that tracks real time traffic and road conditions from drivers’ phones, uses huge amounts of data to better route people to their destinations.

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Map Kibera: Empowering Africa’s Biggest Slum with Collective Wisdom

Waze – using driver data to build a better map