Data-Driven Solutions for Sustainable Cities
This visualization challenge unites emerging data scientists, urban planners, and environmental advocates to address urgent urban resilience issues in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, focusing on urban environmental management, infrastructure resilience, and integrated urban planning.
Participants gain hands-on experience transforming complex geospatial datasets from partners like the World Bank and local initiatives into impactful visualizations that support sustainable development and climate adaptation. The event hones technical skills in geospatial analysis, multi-layered visualization, and interactive dashboard design while deepening domain knowledge in urban environmental science, infrastructure assessment, and evidence-based planning.
Working collaboratively, teams develop innovative solutions that reveal connections across urban forestry, drainage systems, and planning, ultimately creating actionable insights to enhance urban resilience and inform decision-making for cities in East Africa and beyond.
Location:
Challenge descriptions:
Skills development | Work with data sets | open-access learning materials | Research and Innovation
Young people participated
Geospatial Data Used
List of Challenges used:
Visualizing drainage bottleneck locations.
Integration of different type of data to identify challenges through urban planning
Visualization of urban tree distributions and its importance for urban forestry management.
Developed Solutions
Communicate risks and hazards to local communities via visualisations
Story of past floods for better situation analysis
Solid waste collection plan for Tanzanian cities
Visualizing drainage bottleneck locations.
Integration of different type of data to identify challenges through urban planning
Visualization of urban tree distributions and its importance for urban forestry management.
Partners
General Guidelines
Data Visualisation Challenge is an opportunity for students and young professionals to turn raw data into powerful visualization solutions that highlight climate risks and urban resilience. By working with open datasets and user-friendly tools, participants will learn how to transform information into maps, charts, and interactive visuals that can support better decision-making. The challenge encourages creativity, collaboration, and the use of open-source technologies, while building practical skills that are highly relevant in today’s data-driven world.
Geospatial Data
All the data can be downloaded from the Climate Risk Database. Or you can contact your mentors from the University partners who can help you on how to get the needed data.
Preferred Softwares
Under this visualisation challenge, you are allowed to use any open source softwares to make your visualisation. Here we list few softwares: Data Studio, Leaflet, Mapbox, Quantum GIS, Geonode, U Map, and or Open Refine.
General Documents and data repositories
- Tanzania Urban Resilience Program Annual Report (.pdf).
- Ramani Huria Website:
- Ramani Huria 1.0 Atlas:
- OpenStreetMap: (The data here can be downloaded using export tools: you need to have OpenStreetMap account)
- Climate Risk Database for Resilience Academy Website:
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