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Nairobi from the air: rows of iron roofs in the Deep Sea settlement fill the foreground, a road separates them from new apartment towers, and the city centre stands on the horizon
Unequal World · Data Story

The Air Nobody Measures

Nairobi, Kenya · and nine more cities
A Code for Africa story, built on sensors.AFRICA open data
The Air Nobody Measures
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Four africanDRONE pilots at the Ondiri wetlands, near Nairobi, one pointing at the sky
africanDRONE pilots at the Ondiri wetlands, near Nairobi. Photo: africanDRONE.

The Air Nobody Measures is a Code for Africa story. The readings come from sensors.AFRICA, a citizen science initiative incubated by Code for Africa , and its archive is published openly on openAFRICA . africanDRONE, an African non-profit empowering civic drone pioneers, is incubated and supported by Code for Africa . Its events page records drone journalism camps in Cape Town and Lagos , and it helped WRI carry out a drone mapping pilot to monitor reforested land in northern Malawi .

sensors.AFRICA via openAFRICA, CC BY where stated · WHO Ambient Air Quality Database V8.0 · Accra gravimetric study, ERL 2021 · Natural Earth · Photographs: Johnny Miller / Unequal Scenes, africanDRONE · full sources sensors.AFRICA · WHO · ERL 2021 · Photographs: Johnny Miller / Unequal Scenes, africanDRONE · sources