{"id":165,"date":"2011-07-01T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:51:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:51:26","slug":"map-kibera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2011\/07\/01\/map-kibera\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Kibera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting example of citizens and aid agencies using social media for community empowerment\/development. Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is a city suburb.\u00a0 Since 2009 they have been creating a free open map of facilities and providing news services for local citizens and community activists. <a href=\"http:\/\/mapkibera.org\/\">http:\/\/mapkibera.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The blog\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapkibera.org\/blog\/%20\">http:\/\/www.mapkibera.org\/blog\/ <\/a>\u00a0provides descriptions of the implementation of the project which discusses the uses and promotion of mapping technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another interesting example of citizens and aid agencies using social media for community empowerment\/development. Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is a city suburb.\u00a0 Since 2009 they have been creating a free open map of facilities and providing news services for local citizens and community activists. http:\/\/mapkibera.org\/ The blog\u00a0 http:\/\/www.mapkibera.org\/blog\/ \u00a0provides descriptions of the implementation of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[42,61,64,241,71,242],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","tag-development","tag-internet","tag-journalism","tag-media-and-communication","tag-new-media","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}