Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi

Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi

Conceived out of collaboration between Kenyan and American universities and the technology sector in Nairobi, Digital Matatus shows how to leverage the ubiquitous nature of cellphone technology to collect missing data for essential infrastructure - including those with high levels of informality. Th...

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主要な著者: Klopp, Jacqueline, Orwa, Dan, Waiganjo Wagacha, Peter, Williams, Sarah, White, Adam
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出版事項: Field Actions Science Reports 2017
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:factsreports_4321 en https://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/4321 2017-06-14T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ga6z https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi Field Actions Science Reports Institut Veolia info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1867-8521 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1867-139X URI:https://journals.openedition.org/factsreports Klopp, Jacqueline Orwa, Dan Waiganjo Wagacha, Peter Williams, Sarah White, Adam Conceived out of collaboration between Kenyan and American universities and the technology sector in Nairobi, Digital Matatus shows how to leverage the ubiquitous nature of cellphone technology to collect missing data for essential infrastructure - including those with high levels of informality. The project captured transit data in standardized form for Nairobi’s semi-formal bus system, developed the first public transit map for such a system and made the map and data free to the public, spurring innovation and improved services for citizens.While most cities develop sophisticated IT projects to make their organization smarter, the Digital Matatus case suggests the value of a much more modest and bottom-up approach: it encourages reliance on common technologies like cellphones to understand and improve existing urban services – that often involve informality – in emerging countries. By developing the first-ever high quality data set and map of the Matatu network (very common semi-informal mini-buses in Kenya), the projects promotes a new, low-cost and more practical vision of smart and transit-oriented cities.
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description Conceived out of collaboration between Kenyan and American universities and the technology sector in Nairobi, Digital Matatus shows how to leverage the ubiquitous nature of cellphone technology to collect missing data for essential infrastructure - including those with high levels of informality. The project captured transit data in standardized form for Nairobi’s semi-formal bus system, developed the first public transit map for such a system and made the map and data free to the public, spurring innovation and improved services for citizens.While most cities develop sophisticated IT projects to make their organization smarter, the Digital Matatus case suggests the value of a much more modest and bottom-up approach: it encourages reliance on common technologies like cellphones to understand and improve existing urban services – that often involve informality – in emerging countries. By developing the first-ever high quality data set and map of the Matatu network (very common semi-informal mini-buses in Kenya), the projects promotes a new, low-cost and more practical vision of smart and transit-oriented cities.
author Klopp, Jacqueline
Orwa, Dan
Waiganjo Wagacha, Peter
Williams, Sarah
White, Adam
spellingShingle Klopp, Jacqueline
Orwa, Dan
Waiganjo Wagacha, Peter
Williams, Sarah
White, Adam
Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi
author_facet Klopp, Jacqueline
Orwa, Dan
Waiganjo Wagacha, Peter
Williams, Sarah
White, Adam
author_sort Klopp, Jacqueline
title Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi
title_short Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi
title_full Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi
title_fullStr Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi
title_full_unstemmed Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi
title_sort informal 2.0: seeing and improving urban informal practices through digital technologies the digital matatus case in nairobi
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