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IDEAtlas co-anchor INEGI wins the UN-Datathon
Congratulations to the team INEGI-LCiD México, composed by members of INEGI, which is one of the co-anchor institutions of IDEAtlas for winning the 2024 UN Datathon. In their project, they made a very interesting analysis of the sustainability of the tourism in Medellin, and it’s relations with the quality of life of the population. For those interested in their work, see their video and storyboard.
15.11.2024
IDEAtlas in the UN-Datathon
The IDEAtlas team participated in organizing the UN-Datathon and was present in site in the event in Medellin from 7th to 11th of November 2024. For the event, which counted on more than 400 participants and over 100 teams, our team provided data to and instructions to the participants, and Dr. Raian V. Maretto, together with our co-anchors Juan Manuel D’Attoli and Elio Villaseñor Garcia represented IDEAtlas as mentors and as part of the judging committee. The event was organized by the UN statistical office, from which Dr. Ronald Jansen is also part of our advisory board. You can see the projects that won the dataton here.
15.11.2024
IDEAtlas in the 2024 UN World Data Forum, in Medellin
The IDEAtlas team, together with our partners and stakeholders, organized two sessions in the 2024 World Data Forum, which took place in Medellin from 12th to 15th of November 2024, and counted on more than 3.000 participants. During the two sessions, IDEAtlas team was represented by Prof. Monika Kuffer and Dr. Raian V. Maretto. These sessions are listed below:
- Data Innovations on Housing and Environmental Statistics: Combining Alternative and Official Data to Map Informal Settlements (Discussion Panel)
- Discussion pannel: Prof. Monika Kuffer, Dr. Raian V. Maretto, Dr. Ronald Jansen, Juan Manuel D’Atolli, Sandra Milena G. Pineda, Juan Guilhermo G. Garcia
- Data Ecosystems and Gridded Housing and Environmental Statistics for Evidence-Based Policy Making (Learning Session)
- Presenters: Prof. Monika Kuffer, Dr. Raian V. Amaretto, Prof. Jose Jaime S. Escoba, Dr. Juan Pablo O. Zapata, Andrea Ramirez Santiago
15.11.2024
IDEAtlas in the 2024 UN World Urban Forum, in Cairo
The IDEAtlas team, together with our partners and stakeholders, organized several sessions in the 2024 World Urban Forum, which took place in Cairo from 4th to 8th of November 2024, and counted on more than 37.000 participants. The project was represented in the event by Prof. Monika Kuffer, which presented IDEAtlas in several sessions (listed below).
- Inclusive Data Innovations for Mapping Urban Deprived Areas, Peripheral Territories, and Informal Settlements – Training Event
- Inclusive Data and Digital Tools for Informal Settlements – Networking Event
- Leveraging Digital Technologies to Solve the Last-Mile-Problems for Localizing SDG11 Indicators on Housing and Informal Settlements – SDG in Action
- USAid session – SDG in Action
15.11.2024
Planning for upcoming City Living Labs
Together with our co-anchors in our partner cities (Buenos Aires, Salvador, Medellin, Mexico City, Lagos, Nairobi, Mumbai and Jarkart), we are planning Living Labs on user-centered models. Please let us know via our email if you live in one of the cities and would like to join: ideatlas@utwente.nl
15.05.2024
IDEAtlas in the News again
IDEAtlas, together with our Co-anchor ReNaBap, has been featured again in the news, this time in the Spanish newspaper El Pais. The article was published after two new informal settlements that had not been registered before were identified, and it opened the discussion on the fact that we should spotlight the problems with living conditions instead of blurring them. Check out the whole article for yourself here (in Spanish).
15.05.2024
Join our Workshop on the Global South!
The 7th EARSeL SIG Workshop on the Global South is approaching fast. The workshop will allow researchers to exchange on the state-of-the-art EO methods to analyse transformation, crises and inequalities in the Global South (e.g., environmental risk, hazards, urbanization, demographic and socio-economic conditions, conservation, and agriculture) while enabling their integration for evidence-based policy-making (e.g., SDGs). Visit the website to find out more and submit your abstract by December 29th.
04.12.2023
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IDEAtlas in the News
IDEAtlas, together with Renabap, has been featured in Argentinian newspaper Página 12. The report was made after two new informal settlements were identified that have not been registered before. Check out the whole article for yourself here (in Spanish).
26.11.2023
27th September: Living Lab Mumbai
We’ll be holding our next living lab in Mumbai on the 27th September 2023. If you’d like to be involved, get in touch with the project team via our contact page.
24.08.2023
IDEAtlas @ AmeriGEO Conference
The IDEAtlas projected was represented at the AmeriGEO conference in Costa Rica, where our very own Paolo Silva Filho held a talk on model transferability in informal settlement mapping. Check out the video here to see his talk.
12.08.2023
Living Lab Nairobi
The Living Lab in Nairobi was held on 8 June, in the same week as the UN-Habitat General Assembly, with 25 participants. As part of the Living Lab, we also had a visit to the SDI office and to the office of CommunityMappers in Kibera.
08.06.2023
Living Lab Jakarta
The living lab in Jarkarta was held on 24 May by the local co-anchors and joint online by the ITC team. The meeting was locally attended by around 20 representatives from local and national governments, NGOs, and academia.
24.05.2023
Living Lab Latin America
The Living Lab in Medellin and Buenos Aires were held on 26 April. In each city, an onsite venue was arranged for around 10-20 participants. The Living Lab was held in Spanish to avoid language barriers and to allow for the full participation of local users. The presentations were given by a Spanish speaker of the ITC team.
The Living Lab on site had short presentations: two of them were carried out by the IDEAtlas member, where the mission and the workshop workflow were reported; and three short introductory presentations by each city-representative, where each city talked about their work on deprivation modelling. Mexico also presented briefly the work done by INEGI
Most of the time was left for participants to brainstorm and discuss in groups. Each city was having their own discussion workshop, and IDEAtlas members were supporting online.
26.04.2023
Living Lab Salvador
The Living Lab in Salvador was divided into a two-day workshop, and took place on 30th and 31st of March. The first session, on the 30th took place virtually, and focused on the discussions with the national stakeholders from several different levels (governments, research institutions, and universities). The second session, on the 31st, took place on-site, at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), and focused on the discussions with the local and regional stakeholders (local government and representatives of communities).
Considering the two days of workshop, the Living Lab attracted diverse participation – from academia, National and regional Statistics institutes (IBGE), Space Agency (INPE), Planning Agencies, Disaster’s monitoring Center (CEMADEN), NGOs, and Communities associations. This was reached by personal invitations of key stakeholders, in particular, local and national governments (e.g., IBGE, INPE, Prefeitura de Salvador, and Ministry of Cities) and community groups and associations. In total of the two days, we had the participation of more than 60 people. During the presential day, the venue we had was allowing around 20+ participants, and the venue was full, having two very active half-day workshop.
To be more inclusive with all the institutions and communities, due to the difficulty of some people on speaking English, the workshops were conducted in Portuguese. On both days, the living lab had short presentations to introduce the project and stimulate the discussions on the main topics of the workshop, leaving most of the time for the participants to discuss and brainstorm on the raised questions.
31.03.2023
Living Lab Lagos
The Living Lab in Lagos was held after the kick-off meeting of IDEAMAPS in Lagos. As part of the activities, also community visits and discussions with community leaders were held.
The Living Lab attracted diverse participation – from academia, NSO, Space Agency, Planning Department, NGOs, and Communities. This was reached by personal invitations of key stakeholders, in particular, local and national governments (e.g., LASURA, Space Agency, NSO) and community groups. Besides invitations, we had an open registration form shared via social media, where, in total, 50 people registered for in-person and online participation. The venue we had was allowing around 30+ participants, and the venue was full, having a very active full-day workshop. A problem during the workshop was the continuous power cuts.
The living lab on site had short presentations on the main topics of the workshop, leaving most of the time for the participants to work in groups to brainstorm on flipchart papers, groups discussion and group presentations.
02.02.2023
IDEAtlas Project Kick-Off Meeting
Today ESA and the project consortium successfully kicked off the IDEAtlas project, with presentations of the approaches which will be taken by the ITC and GeoVille teams to meet the expected project outcomes.
We also heard a presentation by advisory board member Dennis Mwaniki from UN-Habitat, who introduced the main questions UN-Habitat wants us to address, in order to support data and methods innovations for SDG/NUA reporting and monitoring.
25.11.2022
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