Interview with Grassroots Mapping Kit, 2010 IAP Seed Grant Recipient
May 20, 2010 
Tags: Video
Team: Grassroots Mapping Kit
Team Members: Jeffrey Warren, Seth Hunter, Carla del Carpio, Josh Levinger
Geographic Focus: Lima, Peru
Project: The Grassroots Mapping Kit is a set of tools and techniques to produce maps for informal settlements and the organizations that support them. While over a quarter of the world's population lives in urban slums, most cities have no means of mapping them, and efforts to produce slum maps by governments and nonprofits have excluded the communities they depict. The GMK will put cartographic tools in the hands of youth in a settlement outside Lima, Peru, providing both educational value and high resolution, up-to-date maps.
