A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Story-based campaigns

BIG DATA + MAPS + EDITOR

• desktop apps
• GIS

• Data visualization
• Mapping tools
• Satellites

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech