L’an 2016, le 13 juin s’est tenu dans la salle polyvalente de la Faculté d’Agronomie de l’Université Abdou Moumouni, un atelier d’échange entre les partenaires de Urban ARK.

Urban ARK Niamey partners held a stakeholder workshop on 13 June 2016 at Abdou Moumouni University.

Reasearchers Faith Taylor, James Millington and Bruce Malamud investigate the location of floods in Nairobi from social media and online news.

Building a community of practice and collaboration across relevant research projects is central to Urban ARK. 

I’m sure many of you who have done work in Africa have experienced the issue of arriving in an area armed with a map, only to see that the area is almost entirely beyond recognition to what it looked like on paper.

Urban ARK postdoc Faith Taylor, and KCL PhD student Michele Ferretti are organising a mapathon to add richness to the Open Street Map data availble for Karonga, Malawi.