MATI - Practicum
During the summer of 2013, a team of MIT students traveled with me to the Mozambican capital, Maputo, to collaborate with my colleague, Professor Anselmo Cani and his students from the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), in addition to local youth partners, to survey households and to open-source map neighborhood resources in KaTembe, Mozambique. KaTembe is a peri-urban district of Maputo, and is slated for large redevelopment projects following the construction of a long highly anticipated bridge connecting this part of Maputo with the central city over the bay. Our work will be used to ascertain linkages between current water and sanitation provisions, affordability concerns of income-poor residents and service providers, and extant neighborhood-level resources related to community health. Ultimately, the objective of this project is to use data and its visualization as a potent reference for building a local advocacy strategy for improved services that the UEM and MIT team will work on together in KaTembe and Cambridge.
The MIT-UEM team wishes to very gratefully acknowledge and thank for their support MIT's MISTI Global Seed Fund program, the Public Service Center, and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, in addition to the Rector of the University of Eduardo Mondlane and the Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning.
See the final report (in English here, in Portuguese here), and our blog here.
