Tag Archives: mapping

War Office Archive goes live in Nairobi

Posted on June 20, 2016 by mattindigo

The following blog post was kindly prepared by Nick Dykes, Cataloguer at the British Library. In 2014 the British Library received funding from the Indigo Trust to catalogue, conserve and digitise almost 600 colonial-era military intelligence maps of the former … Continue reading →

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Supporting MSF & Missing Maps in DRC

Posted on February 22, 2016 by mattindigo

In 1854 London physician John Snow collected addresses from victims of a cholera outbreak, put them on a map, traced the epidemic to Soho and turned off the contaminated pump. In doing so, he became one of the fathers of … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: GuA British Reverse in East Africa – from the War Office Archive

Posted on May 18, 2015 by mattindigo

A guest post from the British Library on the Ogaden Punitive Force of 1901. Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Intelligence Mapping of British East Africa – Digitisation Begins

Posted on May 5, 2015 by mattindigo

The following post has been kindly prepared by Nicholas Dykes, cataloguer at the British Library’s War Office Archive. The post relates to work funded by Indigo to conserve, catalogue, digitally capture and publish a number of maps and pages of text … Continue reading →

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Humanitarian Mapping: A Grant to MapAction

Posted on February 17, 2015 by mattindigo

In humanitarian crises and emergencies, ensuring access to accurate and up-to-date information is key to coordinating an often complex and confusing response. The small UK organisation, MapAction, has been deploying volunteer mappers to humanitarian emergencies and disasters for more than … Continue reading →

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Mixed fortunes as ActionAid tackles land-grabbing in Tanzania

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Richard Crellin

Back in September 2011 the Indigo Trust made a grant of £10,000 to ActionAid to support a project they were undertaking to map instances of rural land-grabbing in Tanzania.

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“What Indigo has learned”… Transparency and Accountability

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Richard Crellin

Over the past couple of years Indigo has developed a sizeable portfolio of partner organisations and funded projects that attempt to increase accountability and transparency in Africa by utilising ICT. We have found this to be hard work indeed! Measuring … Continue reading →

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In the News

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Richard Crellin

March was another exciting month for ICT and mobile developments in Africa. Here’s our monthly round-up of highlights ranging from Kenya’s elections to diplomatic Twitter rows in Nigeria! Enjoy…

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“What Indigo has learned”… Agriculture

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Richard Crellin

This is the first in a mini-series of posts that will examine some of the lessons we have learnt from our funding of specific areas within our broader mission of using ICT to spur social innovation and change in Africa. … Continue reading →

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Updates from CIPESA

Posted on March 18, 2013 by mattindigo

Last year, we announced that we had funded a project to monitor service delivery in northern Uganda to be carried out by CIPESA in collaboration with the local journalism organisation, NUMEC. Since then, they have been busy collecting data on … Continue reading →

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