Community Mapping Workshop
Tinghir, Morocco
Community Mapping Workshop
Tinghir, Morocco
Poverty Mapping Workshop
Washington, DC
Poverty Mapping Workshop
Washington, DC
Ait Khalifa
Before-and-After Mapping Ait Khalifa
Azrou
Before-and-After Mapping Azrou
Igrramen
Before-and-after mapping Igrramen
Tagmoute
Before-and-after mapping Tagmoute
Ouarchdiq Gharbiya
Before-and-after mapping Ouarchdiq Gharbiya
Taoujgalte
Before-and-after mapping Taoujgalte
Timstiguite
Before-and-after mapping Timstiguite
Timite
Before-and-after mapping Timite
Tiniourkane
Before-and-after mapping Tiniourkane
Community Participation: A Grassroots Approach
Throughout the course of this study, a number of communities have contributed to changing the narratives surrounding poverty. To do so, we held mapping workshops in Tinghir, Morocco and in Washington, DC with community members, educators, and students alike. These workshops consisted of training participants in OpenStreetMap (OSM), a free and editable map of the world. In Morocco, the team held participatory mapping workshops with community members, creating detailed base maps with local knowledge. In Washington, DC, YouthMappers at the George Washington University held map-a-thons to help take the data collected in Morocco and put it on OSM. All of these community contributions have helped us understand the impact of top-down poverty maps in development.
