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Open Schools Kenya
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2026-09-02 –, Conference Management Room6

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Open Schools Kenya has put all schools on the map using OpenStreetMap.

The idea to map all the schools sounded crazy until Map Kibera together with Kibera youth went around mapping each and every school using ODK/ Kobo Collect. Starting with Kibera slum we went ahead to map three other informal settlement of Nairobi. Produced maps and developed a website for schools where each and every school has a profile page.(https://openschoolskenya.org/) The page showed all the details about that particular school ranging from population to contact information to school fees among others. Parents make informed choices of which schools to send their kids to depending on preferences and capabilities. The project was basically meant to make education information easily available, accessible and useful to everyone. Making the invisible schools visible.

Level of technical complexity: 2 - intermediate Indicate what is (are) the open source project(s) essential in your talk:

Open Schools Kenya
Open Street Map
ODK/Kobo Collect

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Joshua Ogure

Joshua Ogure is the programs Director for Map Kibera Trust based in Nairobi Kenya. Joshua has over 15 year years of working in the informal settlement. With his mapping and citizen journalism skills Josh has led the team to map and train others on how to map their own communities. He has also worked closely with government in partnership with World Bank to help map projects for participatory budgeting.
Josh loves making the invisible visible.