Cateura is the name of the enormous landfill located in Paraguay’s capital city, Asunción. It is also one of South American’s poorest slums and home to the young members of the ‘Recycled Orchestra’, but instruments built from rubbish have given these children a new lease of life through music, and […]
Many youth groups in the slum communities of Nairobi, Kenya, run garbage collection services. Their goal is to create a clean and healthy environment for all – and to uplift the youth. Are you interested in this topic, come for our next seminar that will focus at solid waste management […]
Kulturhuset, 28 August, 19:00. The world’s population is moving to the cities. Cities in developing countries are growing especially fast. About one billion of the world´s 3,5 billion urban inhabitants are living in informal settlements, or slums. This number is expected to increase. What kind of access to the cities’ […]
Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map. But in November 2009, young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. “Another interesting example that shows how data can be […]
On the 8th of October 2013, UN-HABITAT in collaboration with Habitat Norway will host the seminar: “Youth and Urban Governance, including Land and ICT” at The House of Literature in Oslo. UN-HABITAT will also launch a report on the topic the same day. Already several months in advance, we have the […]
According to a new report from the World Bank, 1.6 billion people gained access to electricity between 1990 and 2000, 70 percent of them in urban areas. But, as of 2010, 1.2 billion people were still living without it – 173 million of them in urban areas. In the West, […]
We are happy to launch our new logo! The logo comes with English and Norwegian text, and with black and white letters and illustration. The logo also comes in a simplified set. Design by Synne Bergby.
It might be possible, as Morocco just launched the world’s largest solar power project. Middle East Online announced (2013-05-11) the breaking news. The project is expected to cover 3,000 hectares and have a generation capacity of 500 megawatts, enough to met the electricity needs of the city Ouarzazate’s 1.5 million […]
The world´s population is moving to the cities. Cities in developing countries are growing especially fast. About one billion of the world´s 3,5 billion urban inhabitants are living in informal settlements, or slums. This number is expected to increase. What kind of access to the cities’ infrastructure do these people […]
OSLO — A city that imports garbage. Some comes from England, some from Ireland. Some is from neighboring Sweden. It even has designs on the American market. “I’d like to take some from the United States,” said Pal Mikkelsen, in his office at a huge plant on the edge of […]