14-16 November 2023, at NUST

Informal settlements are today the places in which most people living in urban areas find themselves in the African continent. Differently from the way in which this happened in other geographies, like Latin American and Southeast Asia, this takes place at a time where digital tools are widespread and becoming increasingly available for the urban poor. The intersection of urban technology and interventions in informal settlements is therefore a crucial area of interest both for urban development actors.

This article is a dispatch from the "Changing landscapes, changing societies" project led by Miguel Vallejo Orti and collaborators from colleagues from the Namibia University of Science and Technology and Heidelberg University. Read more about the project HERE. 

Opuwo, as a crossroad 

[CALL CLOSED: Results to be announced soon]

ILMI Seed Grants for research, outreach and education on land, livelihoods and housing.

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Closing date: July 6th, 2020

Lecture by Prof Rob Marchant (University of York, UK) and Prof Sheona Shackleton (University of Cape Town, SA), on January 29th, 2020 at NUST Auditorium 1.

(Photograph credit: Office of the First Lady)

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