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April 18, 2024
We're Hiring!
Post open for Research Associate in Urban Analytics (Grade 7, fixed-term 18 months) based at the University of Glasgow
Grace Gielink
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October 7, 2022
IDEAMAPS participatory data-modelling project awarded funding
The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) is delighted to announce that the IDEAMAPS participatory data-modelling project has secured over $1.5m in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Grace Gielink
June 16, 2022
Informality in Cities: Global Review Series
(This is a repost from the Cities Alliance Newsroom) When COVID-19 first appeared in 2020, it spread around the world and exposed the vulnerabilities of those hardest hit—slum dwellers, those…
Dana R. Thomson
April 22, 2022
Inviting submissions to journal special issue on Deprived Area (Slum) Mapping
IDEAMAPS members Dana R. Thomson, Anthony Boanada-Fuchs, and Monika Kuffer are guest editing an issue of Urban Science journal. They invite submissions on the topic of Deprived Area (Slum) Mapping,…
Dana R. Thomson
April 22, 2022
Funded PhD opportunities
Here are a few funded PhD research opportunities that may be of interest to IDEAMAPS Network members. University of Glasgow (Scotland), Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) Scholarship: Digital Footprints for…
Dana R. Thomson
April 1, 2021
Toolkit: Operationalising the IDEAMAPS Approach in Goverment
In late 2020, leaders at the Mexico National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) engaged with the IDEAMAPS Network to understand how they might operationalise an IDEAMAPS approach to map…
Dana R. Thomson
March 22, 2021
IDEAMAPS Modeller Platform
Dana R. Thomson
March 21, 2021
IDEAMAPS Engagement Workshops
Throughout the first year of IDEAMAPS, we held stakeholder engagement workshops in each of the project's pilot cities: Lagos (August 2020), Accra (November 2020), and Nairobi (April 2021). Each workshop…
Dana R. Thomson
March 21, 2021
Domains of Deprivation Framework
Following a review of the social and physical science literature and developing an initial version of the IDEAMAPS Domains of Deprivation Framework (detailed in an earlier post), we met with…
Dana R. Thomson
January 23, 2021
Lagos Area Observation Survey
In December 2020, the IDEAMAPS Network worked with community mappers from the Nigerian Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI) Federation and students at the University of Lagos to perform an Area Observation…
Dana R. Thomson
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