The workshop aimed to validate various aspects related to digital hubs, including the locations of the sites, digital needs and challenges, services and facilities offered by the hubs, as well as their management and sustainability.
These concepts all aim to facilitate digital growth in communities using different strategies. They have been applied in designing a digital hub for Mathare, with the goal of creating a model that can be replicated in other informal settlements.
The community pointed out that their digital needs were access to information, CBC learning, digital literacy and online marketing as well as accessing social media and other entertainment sites.
Participants discussed ways of tackling research waste, which predominantly included community engagement from research conceptualization to dissemination and openly sharing data and research outputs with the community and other stakeholders in the Mathare.
The workshop provided an avenue for cross-pollination and inter-city learning through presentations and participatory design sessions.
The newly launched Urban Research and Collaboration Hub will generate knowledge on vulnerability and resilience, inclusivity and frugal innovations, and informal disaster risk governance mechanisms in the next three years, while collaborating with like-minded organizations to catalyze impactful research and actions
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