[HOT] Fwd: Life After Warfare: How a Digital Map Could Help Revive Mogadishu

[Bryce Nesbitt]

This looks of potential interest to the HOT community:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/fa_mogadishu/
Today the Somali capital is at peace, but decades of war destroyed its
informational soul—the systems that keep data on tax collection, property
ownership, road repair, and so on that let a city function as a city.
Mitchell Sipus is trying to recapture that data. He’s an urban planner
running a municipal project to digitally map Mogadishu, encoding not just
geography but also businesses, infrastructure, and people....
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