Joshua ogure
Josh Bio-FOSS4G 2021
Joshua Ogure strives to bring about positive social change in his community. Ogure uses the lens of his camera to engage and document what happens in and around his neighbourhood in Kibera Slum Nairobi, and as the project Manager for Map Kibera Trust .
Ogure has led different projects including Counties participatory Budgeting mapping for Accountability, in partnership with World Bank, Open Schools mapping project (https://openschoolskenya.org/ ) supported by Gates Foundation and Indigo Trust.
Joshua has been invited to speak and share his work in several high profile conferences including United Nations New York ECOSOC Meeting and United Nations Public Service Forum in Baku Azerbaijan 2019.
During this COVID-19 pandemic, Joshua is working hard with his team to map and track all the Corona virus reported cases plus resources available in Kibera. Check it out here
https://kenyacovid19.ushahidi.io/views/map
Sessions
The talk highlights how Map Kibera has made use of OpenStreetMap, a Free and Open Source Ushahidi Instance platform to Map and track all the Covid- 19 cases as reported in Kenya, as well as map all the available Covid-19 related resources in both Kibera and Mathare slums of Nairobi. See the map here (https://kenyacovid19.ushahidi.io/views/map)