DAKAR, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa's sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to ...

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 ...

If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads. Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities, the ...

The United Nations estimates that more than 1 billion people live in slums around the world. Yet the geography of slum living has long been poorly defined. From the favelas of Brazil to shack ...

A billion people worldwide live in slums, largely invisible to city services and governments — but not to satellites. A global movement is... In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An 'Invisible' Slum On The Map ...