Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) Director Luis Ravina travelled to the United States between the 12th and 15th of November to visit some NCID colleagues and partners, in order to share experiences and strengthen relationships for future collaborations.
First, in Boston, Dr. Ravina met with Ignacio Campomanes, Resident Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where he is doing his postdoctoral studies. He also met with Miguel Ángel Santos, Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Center for International Development who
Primož Kovačič was the third and last speaker of the NCID Workshop on Urban Issues in Development Countries. His speech, titled Digitally Enabled Collective Action in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements, was about the job of his company, Spacial Collective, which works together with local actors in Nairobi to map slums and create information in areas forgotten by the government.
In the conference, Kovačič explained that they us...
The second speaker at the NCID Workshop on Urban Issues in Developing Countries was Prof. Belén Gesto, director at the Instituto de Cooperación en Habitabilidad Básica (ICHaB). On her presentation, titled Urban Expansion, Challenges and Responses from the Basic Habitability Approach, she focused on handling data and explaining what basic habitability is. “More than 50% of the urban population in Sub-Saharan Africa live in sl...