Integrated Deprived Area Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) Network
Lead Research Organisation:
African Population and Health Research Center
Department Name: Urbanization and Wellbeing
Abstract
Introduction:
The UN estimates that 2.5 billion people will be added to the planet over the next 30 years. A large portion of these populations will reside in deprived neighbourhoods including slums, informal settlements, and areas of inadequate housing and face a range of challenges from insecure tenure, to unplanned housing, pollution, environmental risk, and social exclusion. Spatial data on such neighbourhoods are commonly not available. On the occasions that they do exist, they quickly become out-dated. Without up-to-date information on the geography (location and extent) of deprived neighbourhoods and the specific social and physical environmental conditions faced by their inhabitants, the impact of these on health and social outcomes are not traceable and the development of effective interventions is not achievable. However, there is currently no systematic, scalable approach to map deprived neighbourhoods across cities, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Methodology:
The project will design an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) that will push the boundaries and overcome the weaknesses of each of these current approaches to mapping slums, informal settlements, and areas of inadequate housing. This will be accomplished by joining up a multisectoral and transdisciplinary network of researchers, technologists and societal stakeholders who will collaborate to co-design the IDEAMAPS approach to map and address neighbourhood deprivation and perform pilot studies in Nairobi, Accra, and Lagos, where we have existing strong partnerships and access to existing data (see details below). This approach will consist of an innovative combination of three components: (a) engagement of stakeholders in different scales; (b) modelling and data infrastructure techniques that aim to integrate and leverage the accuracy of field-based maps; (c) an integrative framework, which defines assessment criteria for characterising neighbourhood deprivation in connection with sustainable development.
Work Groups:
WP1. Stakeholder Engagement- This work package (WP) leads engagement of stakeholders across sectors (e.g. EO, demography, community, policy) in both established and innovative ways to further develop understanding of urban neighbourhood deprivation, and to create enabling environments in which a deprived area mapping system can be implemented.
WP2. Integrative Frameworks- This will be dedicated to the synthesis of key requirements and a shared agenda for the IDEAMAPS approach. It will begin with collating existing literature reviews from current and past projects of the research team: specifically, the Improving Health in Slums Collaborative, Surveys for Urban Equity, Million Neighborhoods Initiative, Modelling African Urban Population Patterns, Accra women's health study, and Standardizing City-Level Data-Gathering in Lagos and Accra.
WP3. Modelling and Data Infrastructure Techniques. This WP3 collate existing data and methods to test potential IDEAMAPS approaches. Based on the domains of deprivation framework developed in WP 2 with input from stakeholders of WP1, we will develop new area-level environmental (e.g. flood risk) and social datasets (e.g. open sewers), and evaluate modelling approaches that can capture domains of deprivation individually, as well as an overall deprivation "slumness" index. WP2 will also investigate different visualisation targeted at end-users in different scales. The evaluation criteria developed in WP 2 will be used to assess and compare model outputs.
Expected Output:
The work packages will create a foundation of stakeholder engagement approaches, frameworks, and techniques to scale-up over the next three years to flesh out an integrated deprivation area mapping system (IDEAMAPS) with a capacity to generate more accurate and usable maps and integrate them into community upgrading and advancing progress toward sustainable development goal.
The UN estimates that 2.5 billion people will be added to the planet over the next 30 years. A large portion of these populations will reside in deprived neighbourhoods including slums, informal settlements, and areas of inadequate housing and face a range of challenges from insecure tenure, to unplanned housing, pollution, environmental risk, and social exclusion. Spatial data on such neighbourhoods are commonly not available. On the occasions that they do exist, they quickly become out-dated. Without up-to-date information on the geography (location and extent) of deprived neighbourhoods and the specific social and physical environmental conditions faced by their inhabitants, the impact of these on health and social outcomes are not traceable and the development of effective interventions is not achievable. However, there is currently no systematic, scalable approach to map deprived neighbourhoods across cities, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Methodology:
The project will design an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) that will push the boundaries and overcome the weaknesses of each of these current approaches to mapping slums, informal settlements, and areas of inadequate housing. This will be accomplished by joining up a multisectoral and transdisciplinary network of researchers, technologists and societal stakeholders who will collaborate to co-design the IDEAMAPS approach to map and address neighbourhood deprivation and perform pilot studies in Nairobi, Accra, and Lagos, where we have existing strong partnerships and access to existing data (see details below). This approach will consist of an innovative combination of three components: (a) engagement of stakeholders in different scales; (b) modelling and data infrastructure techniques that aim to integrate and leverage the accuracy of field-based maps; (c) an integrative framework, which defines assessment criteria for characterising neighbourhood deprivation in connection with sustainable development.
Work Groups:
WP1. Stakeholder Engagement- This work package (WP) leads engagement of stakeholders across sectors (e.g. EO, demography, community, policy) in both established and innovative ways to further develop understanding of urban neighbourhood deprivation, and to create enabling environments in which a deprived area mapping system can be implemented.
WP2. Integrative Frameworks- This will be dedicated to the synthesis of key requirements and a shared agenda for the IDEAMAPS approach. It will begin with collating existing literature reviews from current and past projects of the research team: specifically, the Improving Health in Slums Collaborative, Surveys for Urban Equity, Million Neighborhoods Initiative, Modelling African Urban Population Patterns, Accra women's health study, and Standardizing City-Level Data-Gathering in Lagos and Accra.
WP3. Modelling and Data Infrastructure Techniques. This WP3 collate existing data and methods to test potential IDEAMAPS approaches. Based on the domains of deprivation framework developed in WP 2 with input from stakeholders of WP1, we will develop new area-level environmental (e.g. flood risk) and social datasets (e.g. open sewers), and evaluate modelling approaches that can capture domains of deprivation individually, as well as an overall deprivation "slumness" index. WP2 will also investigate different visualisation targeted at end-users in different scales. The evaluation criteria developed in WP 2 will be used to assess and compare model outputs.
Expected Output:
The work packages will create a foundation of stakeholder engagement approaches, frameworks, and techniques to scale-up over the next three years to flesh out an integrated deprivation area mapping system (IDEAMAPS) with a capacity to generate more accurate and usable maps and integrate them into community upgrading and advancing progress toward sustainable development goal.
Planned Impact
The expected long-term impact of this outcome is a contribution towards the targets of: ensuring access for all adequate, safe, and affordable housing (SDG 11.1); achieving adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all (SDG 6.2); and reduction in the number of deaths and people affected by disasters, including water related disasters (SDG 1.5).
This proposal will benefit capital city authorities, community organisations, and research teams in Kenya (Nairobi), Ghana (Accra), and Nigeria (Lagos) with decision-critical maps of neighbourhood-level deprivation, flood risk, and open sewer locations. By engaging with stakeholder groups directly and via networking events, various local authority departments, community organizations, and research teams will help to define a shared framework and technical process by which these data can be mapped routinely and accurately. We expect that our engagement process will facilitate new channels of communication and collaboration within and across the three cities that could sustain further upgrading and development projects beyond the life of the project
-Community Impact-local communities vulnerable to poor sanitation infrastructure, flooding, and other environmental and social risks will benefit directly from the community engagement methods (WP1) that will bring together people from different sectors as well as age, gender and socioeconomic groups. These methods will not only produce data for the project and build awareness, but will also enhance capacity of citizens of our study areas and of the partner organisations (see Letters of Support from SDI-Kenya, SDI-Ghana, SDI-Nigeria, Pamjua Trust, Map Kibera) to develop community-based initiatives that combine risk reduction and local development to improve resilience.
-Local and national governmental impact: (a) improved communication channels between community groups and local government agencies to convey community needs and priorities, as well as to notify vulnerable communities of outside threats; (b) improved risk mapping by incorporating community-driven data related to physical and social vulnerability from WP 1; (c) long-term development of more precise flood risk and planned sanitation infrastructure installation and upgrading. With the direct involvement of researchers from the Kenyan, Ghanan, and Nigerian academic partners with non-academic cooperation partners, the project will also build research capacity with the interdisciplinary research methods developed in the project, which will be used in further initiatives in different parts of Africa.
-National/international community impact: Disseminating the project datasets, code, and findings through open-source platforms (see Letter of Support from UN Global Data Platform, Gates Foundation, EC Joint Research Centre), the project will ensure wider long-term impact across LMICs (WP 3). The larger "slum" mapping community event will target policy makers, governmental agencies and local governments involved in city planning, slum upgrading, disaster risk reduction and SDG progress monitoring in Africa and other LMICs, beyond those directly involved in the project (WP 1) (see Letters of Support from UN-Habitat, SLUMAP, ARISE, European Space Agency, South African Space Agency). The literature reviews (WP2), stakeholder engagement framework (WP1), Domains of Deprivation framework (WP2), and deprivation mapping assessment criteria (WP2) shred via paper and policy briefings will offer a set of evidence-based recommendations and best practices that can be used by communities, governments and research institutions in LMICs to scale-up deprivation area mapping.
-Business communities impact: Engaging with technology companies in each location and in the international community involved in the provision of data services, the project will seek to identify what role the private sector can play in for the sustainability plan of the second phase of the IDEAMAPS network.
This proposal will benefit capital city authorities, community organisations, and research teams in Kenya (Nairobi), Ghana (Accra), and Nigeria (Lagos) with decision-critical maps of neighbourhood-level deprivation, flood risk, and open sewer locations. By engaging with stakeholder groups directly and via networking events, various local authority departments, community organizations, and research teams will help to define a shared framework and technical process by which these data can be mapped routinely and accurately. We expect that our engagement process will facilitate new channels of communication and collaboration within and across the three cities that could sustain further upgrading and development projects beyond the life of the project
-Community Impact-local communities vulnerable to poor sanitation infrastructure, flooding, and other environmental and social risks will benefit directly from the community engagement methods (WP1) that will bring together people from different sectors as well as age, gender and socioeconomic groups. These methods will not only produce data for the project and build awareness, but will also enhance capacity of citizens of our study areas and of the partner organisations (see Letters of Support from SDI-Kenya, SDI-Ghana, SDI-Nigeria, Pamjua Trust, Map Kibera) to develop community-based initiatives that combine risk reduction and local development to improve resilience.
-Local and national governmental impact: (a) improved communication channels between community groups and local government agencies to convey community needs and priorities, as well as to notify vulnerable communities of outside threats; (b) improved risk mapping by incorporating community-driven data related to physical and social vulnerability from WP 1; (c) long-term development of more precise flood risk and planned sanitation infrastructure installation and upgrading. With the direct involvement of researchers from the Kenyan, Ghanan, and Nigerian academic partners with non-academic cooperation partners, the project will also build research capacity with the interdisciplinary research methods developed in the project, which will be used in further initiatives in different parts of Africa.
-National/international community impact: Disseminating the project datasets, code, and findings through open-source platforms (see Letter of Support from UN Global Data Platform, Gates Foundation, EC Joint Research Centre), the project will ensure wider long-term impact across LMICs (WP 3). The larger "slum" mapping community event will target policy makers, governmental agencies and local governments involved in city planning, slum upgrading, disaster risk reduction and SDG progress monitoring in Africa and other LMICs, beyond those directly involved in the project (WP 1) (see Letters of Support from UN-Habitat, SLUMAP, ARISE, European Space Agency, South African Space Agency). The literature reviews (WP2), stakeholder engagement framework (WP1), Domains of Deprivation framework (WP2), and deprivation mapping assessment criteria (WP2) shred via paper and policy briefings will offer a set of evidence-based recommendations and best practices that can be used by communities, governments and research institutions in LMICs to scale-up deprivation area mapping.
-Business communities impact: Engaging with technology companies in each location and in the international community involved in the provision of data services, the project will seek to identify what role the private sector can play in for the sustainability plan of the second phase of the IDEAMAPS network.
Organisations
- African Population and Health Research Center (Lead Research Organisation)
- Lagos State Government (Collaboration)
- UN Habitat Global Urban Observatory (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GHANA (Collaboration)
- Community Mappers (Collaboration)
- iMMAP (Collaboration)
- Justice and Empowerment Initiative (Jei) (Collaboration)
- University of Ghana (Project Partner)
- University of Southampton (Project Partner)
Publications
Abascal A
(2022)
Identifying degrees of deprivation from space using deep learning and morphological spatial analysis of deprived urban areas
in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Kuffer M
(2020)
The Role of Earth Observation in an Integrated Deprived Area Mapping "System" for Low-to-Middle Income Countries
in Remote Sensing
Luo E
(2022)
Urban poverty maps - From characterising deprivation using geo-spatial data to capturing deprivation from space
in Sustainable Cities and Society
Merodio Gómez P
(2021)
Earth Observations and Statistics: Unlocking Sociodemographic Knowledge through the Power of Satellite Images
in Sustainability
Thomson D
(2020)
Need for an Integrated Deprived Area "Slum" Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
in Social Sciences
Description | The IDEAMAPS Project is working with "slum" mappers from diverse traditions - community-based mappers, census/survey demographers, machine-learning and artificial intelligence data scientists - to find common language and complimentary, integrated approaches to map deprived areas more accurately at scale. One finding is the identification of key strengths within each "slum" mapping tradition that might be leveraged and integrated to improve the accuracy, comparability, and impact of deprived area maps/data. Relatedly, we distinguish household-level poverty and area deprivation, articulate how they intersect, and underscore the importance of measuring and addressing both issues. For example, impoverished households living outside of deprived areas may be better supported through social safety net programmes, while all households (impoverished or not) living in deprived areas that lack infrastructure and services may be best supported with targeted participatory upgrading programmes. A key contribution of IDEAMAPS to academia and practice is the Domains of Deprivation Framework which enables globally comparable measures of deprivation, while balancing the need for local definitions and measures of deprivation. This framework, first, outlines three scales of deprivation - household, within area (neighbourhood), and across areas (city) deprivation - which are all important to understanding and addressing urban deprivation. Second, the framework outlines nine domains (types) of deprivation that reflect both physical and social issues. Different "slum" mapping traditions tend to focus on just a few of these domains, so it is an important contribution of IDEAMAPS to acknowledge and demonstrate how all of them can be measured. Third, the framework is designed to be applied and tailored to local contexts with locally-meaningful and available indicators. We provide dozens of example indicators which have been measured by other researchers and practitioners. To complement the Domains of Deprivation Framework, the IDEAMAPS Project has compiled and pre-processed an extensive open database of indicators classified by their respective domain to be used by diverse analysts mapping urban deprivation. The database only covers our three pilot cities, at the moment. |
Exploitation Route | The approaches outlined and demonstrated by IDEAMAPS provides a template for others, particularly government and international agencies with the mandate and resources to identify deprived urban areas, to implement integrated deprived area mapping systems with similar, comparable, and impactful output. The IDEAMAPS approach is much more than a series of frameworks, datasets and methodologies. The IDEAMAPS approach is a process which emphasises the value of engagement across stakeholder groups, most notably, those living in deprived areas. Foundational to the IDEAMAPS process is co-learning, co-production, and ultimately trust-building which enables wider recognition of the challenge and potential solutions needed to sustainably address the evolving challenges in modern cities. This pilot of the IDEAMAPS approach in three African cities, and widespread enthusiasm for this approach by communities, governments, the third sector, and international agencies underscore the potential for IDEAMAPS to scale to the roughly 13,000 LMIC cities identified in the Global Human Settlement Urban Centres database, and potentially beyond to higher income country cities in the future. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Government Democracy and Justice |
URL | https://ideamapsnetwork.org/ |
Description | The central premise of the Integrated Deprived Area Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) project is that community members and decision-makers will have improved co-produced evidence and trust-based networks to mitigate disaster risk, upgrade infrastructure, and monitor sustainable development. Specifically, that: COMMUNITY-based groups will have greater awareness and access to data, as well as enhanced capacity to develop community-based initiatives that combine risk reduction and local development to improve resilience. Local and national GOVERNMENT agencies have improved channels of communication with residents of deprived areas, improved data and capacity to monitor and address needs in deprived areas, and ultimately a reduction of risk and improved outcomes in those areas. Diverse "SLUM" MAPPING TRADITIONS move closer to common understandings around definitions of urban deprivation, and find ways to improve our collaboration, support, and integration with one another toward our shared goal of supporting development in deprived urban areas. In the first year of the IDEAMAPS project, we are beginning to see impact on all of these fronts within and beyond our study area. COMMUNITY: Our webinars, social media engagements, and stakeholder meetings have deepened relationship with a number of community-based data collection teams across continents. It was, in part, due to connections made via the IDEAMAPS Network that a community data leader in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya discussed her data collection strategies and actions with other community-based data collectors across Latin America in a tri-lingual online Community Mapping event. The IDEAMAPS Network supported the same colleague in Kibera to conduct two community initiated needs assessments on food insecurity and women's security in Kibera during the initial COVID restrictions in 2020. Nine months later, that same colleague has independently organised her own stakeholder engagement in Kibera and is reaching out to the IDEAMAPS Network for support for training to conduct action research projects to document local challenges and solutions for solid waste management to be able to engage local government with evidence. GOVERNMENT: Our presentations at international meetings have led to new connections with National Agencies in Mexico and Sierra Leone to implement an IDEAMAPS Approach in their own countries. We are actively supporting these teams by providing technical documentation of our processes thus far in three pilot cities. These engagements have led to useful bi-directional improvements in approaches. The IDEAMAPS Domains of Deprivation Framework has helped Government agencies to identify and integrate disparate data sources from household-level censuses and surveys with area-level Earth Observation and GIS data. The IDEAMAPS Network has gain insights about how our data ecosystem should be designed to support existing government workflows at local and national levels, as well as clarity around government use cases for deprived area maps. SLUM MAPPING TRADITIONS: There are a broad array of groups from local-to-international levels working on issues of slum upgrading and informal housing. The IDEAMAPS technical frameworks (e.g. defining common global domains of deprivation which allow use of localised indicators that reflect highly-contextual, localised issues), and our inclusive, integrative approach are proving complimentary to existing global efforts to address slum upgrading and land regularisation issues at policy levels. We have yet to see specific examples of the IDEAMAPS approach being operationalised, though the IDEAMAPS Network is becoming viewed as a key partner in the global ecosystem of urban poverty actors. |
First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Citation in IJHG review |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
Impact | IDEAMAPS' development of a scalable approach to mapping deprived areas consistently across cities enables household survey implementers (e.g., national statistical agencies) to develop survey designs to be more representative of populations living in deprived versus not-deprived areas of cities. |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-020-00230-4 |
Description | IDEAMAPS Technical Toolkit for Governments |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The IDEAMAPS Network compiled key technical definitions, datasets, and approaches needed to implement the IDEAMAPS approach into a single technical manual geared toward Governments (or other stakeholders) who wish to implement an IDEAMAPS approach themselves. The National Statistical and Geographic Agency of Mexico (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) has been particularly interested in this approach and provided feedback throughout manual development, and the National Government of Sierra Leone has expressed interest in using it as well. The manual presents our initial experiences in Lagos as a case study, and covers such topics as how we define city extents consistently and to support multiple users of the produced deprived area maps, and how to use the Domains of Deprivation Framework to identify new and existing datasets for modelling deprivation. |
Description | Recommendation to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | IDEAMAPS Network provided recommendations about standards for health spatial data infrastructure as part of OGC's Concept Development Study. This study is expected to help shape the guidelines and practices used by Ministries of Health to incorporate spatial data into health management information systems and government public health decision-making globally, particularly in countries that have not yet established a health spatial data infrastructure. |
Description | Use of IDEAMAPS Domains of Deprivation Framework in practice |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | The Impact-Initiatives REACH programme used the IDEAMAPS Domains of Deprivation Framework to develop a "Deprivation Index" to identify and profile informal settlements in Northern Nigeria to support COVID-19 response. This Deprivation Index is reported routinely for each Local Government Area (LGA) in their service catchment area. As a result, aid agencies are better positioned to target LGAs with relief efforts (e.g. water infrastructure). |
URL | http://www.reachresourcecentre.info/country/nigeria/cycle/29877/?toip-group=publications&toip=factsh... |
Description | GCRF Networking Grant - Round 5 |
Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | GCRFNGR5\1455 |
Organisation | Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2021 |
Title | CRIB Big Geodata Service Portal |
Description | IDEAMAPS has established a shared project space on the ITC Big Geodata Service Portal on which we distribute hundreds of pre-processed open spatial datasets to a community of data scientists who are developing different approaches to modelling deprived areas in low- and middle-income country cities. |
Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | So far, data scientists from Kenya, Nigeria, and the UK are actively developing models of deprived areas across Lagos Nigeria. Lagos State Government representatives are meeting with IDEAMAPS colleagues and the modellers regularly to review the strengths and weakness of each model for use in Lagos State planning and slum upgrading |
URL | https://crib.utwente.nl/ |
Title | IDEAMAPS Data Repository |
Description | IDEAMAPS compiles open spatial datasets from diverse sources, and publishes them on our website. Each dataset is categorised according to the IDEAMAPS Domains of Deprivation Framework and clipped to the maximum urban extent that we defined for each city. So far, data have been shared for Lagos Nigeria, Accra Ghana, and Nairobi Kenya. These data are available publicly in their original format (e.g. points, lines, areas, rasters). |
Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | At this time, we do not track who downloads these datasets and for what purposes. We are aware of a student who is using all of the Nairobi datasets in his Master's thesis to identify key datasets (e.g. building footprints, roads, nighttime lights) to define distinct types of deprivation (e.g. lack of infrastructure) across the city at fine geographic scale. |
URL | https://ideamapsnetwork.org/data/ |
Description | CM - Collaboration with grassroots data collectors and leaders |
Organisation | Community Mappers |
Country | Kenya |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Engagement around community based organisation data needs and desired data format. Application for a training grant to fund development of a community data collector curriculum. Contributing to webinars and online training events specifically designed for community-based data collectors. |
Collaborator Contribution | Context knowledge about deprived community data needs in Nairobi and other Kenyan cities. Expertise in field data collection and training of community-based data collectors. |
Impact | Training grant application to Nuffic TMT-Orange (Dutch organisation for international education). Participation of Community Mappers in IDEAMAPS global webinar series on building trust and exchange among data stakeholders. Co-contribution to a multi-week Community Mapping online programme launched on Open Data Day 2021 which was co-organised by Universidade Federal da Bahia, Youth Mappers, University of Warwick, and University of Twente. Multi-disciplinary: Community profiling (qualitative and quantitative data collection), GIS, demography, public health, statistics, sociology, gender studies/rights. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | JEI - Lagos data collection |
Organisation | Justice and Empowerment Initiative (Jei) |
Country | Nigeria |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Engagement around community based organisation data needs and desired data format. Training of staff in area observation survey data collection. |
Collaborator Contribution | Context knowledge about deprived communities in Lagos. Expertise in field data collection. |
Impact | Performed an Area Observation Survey of 300 point locations in 30 neighbourhoods across Lagos with classification of the area type and presence/absence of physical characteristics and conditions at each point location. Multi-disciplinary: Community profiling (qualitative and quantitative data collection), GIS, statistics, demography, human rights, urban planning. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | MPPUD - Engagement with potential local government users of project outputs |
Organisation | Lagos State Government |
Department | Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development |
Country | Nigeria |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Engagement around local government data needs and desired data format. Co-production of a deprived area map of Lagos State. |
Collaborator Contribution | Context knowledge and guidance about local government use cases for deprived area maps. |
Impact | Preliminary models of deprived areas across Lagos State. Multi-disciplinary collaboration: GIS, remote sensing, demography, statistics, urban planning, policy. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | SDG11 Toolkit |
Organisation | UN Habitat Global Urban Observatory |
Country | Kenya |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Three IDEAMAPS co-Is participated in the SDG11 Toolkit development and launch, and continue to contribute to active working groups. |
Collaborator Contribution | Development of a web facility to share data, tools, and use cases around SDG11. A global network of diverse stakeholders measuring SDG11 indicators and worked with local-to-global partners on settlement upgrading. |
Impact | Launch of the Earth Observations Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements (known colloquially as the SDG11 Toolkit). Multi-disciplinary: GIS, remote sensing, demography, statistics, urban planning, policy. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | UoG - Management of activities and relationships in Accra |
Organisation | University of Ghana |
Department | Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS) |
Country | Ghana |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Expertise in community-based mapping, census/survey implementation and analysis, machine-learning and AI modelling, and other methods for "slum" mapping. Mentorship of students and junior researchers. Access to data storage and data processing facilities. |
Collaborator Contribution | A broad network of key stakeholders involved with "slum" identification, engagement, and upgrading. Expertise in focus-group discussions, field data collection, GIS and remote sensing processing and analysis. Facilities and staff to host key stakeholder meetings. |
Impact | Focus group discussion transcripts with 20 key stakeholders articulating (1) gaps in data related to deprived area identification/needs/upgrading, (2) feedback on the content and layout of a generalised Domains of Deprivation Framework, and (3) visual, format, and content requirements for an IDEAMAPS interface (e.g., website, phone app). Multi-disciplinary: GIS/remote sensing, geography, policy, community profiling and engagement, statistics, demography, user interface design, urban planning. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | iMMAP - Working toward an open data cube |
Organisation | iMMAP |
Country | United States |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Integration of social and physical science perspectives, and generation of a generalised Domains of Deprivation Framework that can be used to defined key indicators of deprivation across multiple contexts. Compilation and processing of open spatial datasets for reflecting a wide range of risks and outcomes faced in deprived urban areas. Expertise in machine-learning and artificial intelligence modelling. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of analysis-ready satellite imagery. Development of an open humanitarian data cube in which to process, distribute and access spatial data. |
Impact | iMMAP provided IDEAMAPS with analysis-ready imagery for Lagos Nigeria, and IDEAMAPS provided iMMAP with contextual features (datasets) derived from the imagery which can be used to model location of deprived settlements. Data exchange is expected in Accra Ghana, Nairobi Kenya, and other cities. Multi-disciplinary: GIS, remote sensing, data science (machine-learning/AI modelling), data infrastructure, humanitarian response, public health, demography, statistics. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Accra Inception Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | University of Ghana (collaborator Mensah) invited 20 diverse stakeholders representing deprived communities, civil society, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, local assembly members, Ghana national ministries, and the private sector to participate in a two-day workshop to learn about IDEAMAPS, provide feedback on our approaches, and share insights in focus group discussions about their specific data needs and desired data outputs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The IDEAMAPS website includes a blog with summaries of our events, research outputs, topics of interest, online surveys, and reflections among members. The blog includes a contribution form for anyone in the network to contribute posts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://ideamapsnetwork.org/blog/ |
Description | Copernicus MOOC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Contributed to a Massive Open Online Course on modelling deprived areas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://vod-progressive.akamaized.net/exp=1605496757~acl=%2Fvimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us%2F01%2F3452%2F... |
Description | FUSE project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote: Deprived urban areas: What role can digital technologies play to improve living conditions?, Informal settlements - opportunities, risks and challenges of using new information technologies, Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Stanford University, FUSE project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://fuse.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj13226/f/online-workshop-march2020.pdf |
Description | Global Session on Slum Upgrading |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | IDEAMAPS is supporting the 2021 Global Session on Slum Upgrading in which a global "network of networks" will be established among diverse groups working on measuring slums and informal settlements, informal housing, and slum upgrading. IDEAMAPS is among several major global partners contributing to the concept note to establish this group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | IDEAMAPS Lounge webinar series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IDEAMAPS hosts regular webinars in which Network members (and those closely aligned with the Network) discuss their approaches to mapping deprived urban areas, and how they build trust and exchange (specifically around data/information) with other stakeholders. So far, the webinar series has included speakers from private industry using artificial intelligence to identify trash piles and small disorganised buildings; UN agency experts working with local governments on participatory slum upgrading best practices; several academic researchers who use qualitative or quantitative methods to quantify the challenges in deprived urban areas; and leaders living in deprived areas who collect data, train their peers, and mobilise community actions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://ideamapsnetwork.org/ideamaps-lounge-webinar-3/ |
Description | INEGI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Regular dialogue and meetings with the National Statistical and Geographic Agency of Mexico resulted in the development of an IDEAMAPS Technical Toolkit Manual specifically geared toward local and/or national government teams who wish to implement their own IDEAMAPS project. The guidence allows IDEAMAPS to be tailored to a specific context, while producing outputs that are comparable across cities with other IDEAMAPS outputs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Lagos Inception Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | University of Lagos (co-I Elias) invited 20 diverse stakeholders representing deprived communities, civil society, Lagos state government, Nigeria national government, local government representatives, and the private sector to participate in a two-day workshop to learn about IDEAMAPS, provide feedback on our approaches, and share insights in focus group discussions about their specific data needs and desired data outputs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IDEAMAPS Network regularlly posts information about our events, blog posts, and papers to LinkedIn, and connects with attendees of our events via LinkedIn. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/ideamaps-network/ |
Description | OpenStreetMap Data Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Discussed Earth Observation Data in Support of Poor Communities against COVID-19 with Universidade Federal de Bahia, Brazil students and faculty. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HdcdstJn60 |
Description | SDG11 Toolkit Working Groups |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Three IDEAMAPS co-I (Kuffer, Elias, Thomson) actively contributed to the SDG11 Toolkit development and launch, and now contribute to working groups focused on (1) building awareness and (2) ensuring impact of the toolkit, as well as (3) supporting data flows between local and national government actors, and (4) ensuring ethical open data practices in SDG11 measurement. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://eo-toolkit-guo-un-habitat.opendata.arcgis.com/pages/eo-data |
Description | Slack |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | IDEAMAPS maintains a Slack channel for modellers and data scientists engaged with the project to model deprived areas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | Spatial Analytics + Data Seminar Series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invisible Spaces and Global Urban Data Gaps: ML, Earth Observation, and Deprivation, Spatial Analytics + Data Seminar Series 2020, Newcastle University, University of Bristol |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxMYZ4mj9Y |
Description | |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The @IDEAMAPSNetwork makes regular posts to Twitter about IDEAMAPS events, other relevant events, IDEAMAPS blog posts and papers, events and topics reported by slum communities (e.g. demolitions), and key days of recognition (e.g. #OpenDataDay, #WorldHabitatDay). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/IDEAMAPSNetwork |
Description | UN 6th International Conference on Big Data for Official Statistics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presented the work of the IDEAMAPS Network on a panel of teams working to measure SDGs 9 and 11. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://unstats.un.org/unsd/bigdata/conferences/2020/ |
Description | Webinar, UN-GGIM: Earth Observations & Statistics |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented the IDEAMAPS Project on a panel of other academic-community mapping initiatives, and discussed questions raised by attendees around the ethics of mapping vulnerable communities who might not want to be identified. This meeting led to recruitment of a student researcher and collaboration among presenters on a paper (under development). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.un-ggim-americas.org/en/contenido/eventos/videos/EO%20_%20Statistics%20-%20WEBINAR.mp4 |