• publication

    Viewpoint. Tackling the invisible during COVID-19 urban prevention: insights on housing and mobility in Maputo, Mozambique

    2021

    Mazzolini, A., Fedeli, V., Concilio, G., & de Tejada, J. R. (2021). Tackling the invisible during COVID-19 urban prevention: insights on housing and mobility in Maputo, Mozambique. Town Planning Review, 92(1), 19–24. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2020.62
  • article

    Safari Njema project on Journal Transporte & Transito - Big data and institutional capacity building

    12/2020

    On December 2020, the recently established Jornal Transporte e Transito (https://www.facebook.com/jornaltransportesetransito/) interviewed Safari Njema project on the methodology of using big data to improve the transport sector. The interview also focused on the need to create a shared database and institutional coordination to manage information and consequently to elaborate more holistic urban and mobility policies.
  • event

    Project presentation at the Sustainable Mobility week 2019

    16/09/2019 → 20/09/2019 — Maputo

    The sustainable mobility week of 2019 in Maputo has been the occasion to officially set the ground for the collaboration with our local project partners, in particular with the AMT. The project team was present at the event as one of the main partners and actors to discuss paths forward for an inclusive, sustainable and user-oriented mobility. Safari Njema project presented the innovative methodology to study present mobility scenarios and to prepare the ground for a renewal of the transport offer through the use of big data. Project members also supported the Mapathon, an initiative promoted by the NGO MApeando Meu Bairro, for data gathering and mapping.
  • event

    International workshop "Big data and Policy Design – Addressing new societal challenges"

    27/01/2020 → 28/01/2020 — Milan

    As a result of the established network of actors working in Maputo on sustainable mobility, the Safari team invited various actors to participate to an international workshop organized by DAStU Department and held at Politecnico di Milano. Participants included MIT researchers and UN-Habitat members arrived from all over the world to jointly discuss the preliminary findings of the different initiatives and exchanging ideas regarding the possible ways forward.
  • event

    Signature of the Agreement of Cooperation with the Metropolitan Agency of Maputo

    28/01/2020 → 28/01/2020 — Milan

    On January 2020 the Safari Njema project officialised his collaboration with the Metropolitan Agency of Maputo (AMT) for the purposes of supporting and being supported in the process of elaboration of mobility scenario through big data. The AMT is the local entity responsible for the elaboration of the national mobility policy and for the innovation of the whole transport sector, including reformulation of routes, spaces and payment options (www.amt.gov.mz).
  • event

    Presentation at the Sustainable Mobility week 2020

    26/10/2020 → 31/10/2020 — Maputo

    The project briefly presented the linkage between planning challenges and mobility in the Metropolitan Area of Maputo in order to rise awareness and foster institutional commitment and coordination in the forthcoming actions.
  • event

    Interdisciplinary teaching module "Exploring and Enhancing people mobility through big data"

    30/11/2020 → 01/12/2020 — Milan and Maputo

    In collaboration with the Espaço de Inovação of the University Eduardo Mondlane (Faculty of Informatics), the project organized a week of interdisciplinary online training offer for students of several faculties as well as for practitioners and civil servants/officers of different institutions involved in urban and mobility decision making processes.