2016 Nominet Trust Winner
Nominet Trust Social Tech Guide
Cotswold Foundation Award 2016-2017
Cotswold Foundation
Sustainia Award Finalist for Transportation
2016 Sustainia100 Solutions
Innovation and Research Award (Watch the Video)
International Road Transport Union
Technology, buses seen easing traffic problems in Nairobi
Business Daily Africa, James Kariuki, July 3, 2018
The Deloitte City Mobility Index
Deloitte Insights, Simon Dixon, Haris Irshad, Derek M. Pankratz, Justine Bornstein, June 11, 2018
Rickshaws Plus Technology Equals a Better Commute in Developing World
Wall Street Journal, Jason Bordoff, June 20, 2017
10 African ‘Tech for Good’ Startups to Watch in 2017
Ventures Africa, Vicki Hearn, April 10, 2017
Matatus... is small-scale transportation becoming trendy?
Mobile Lifes Forum, Léa Wester, March 11, 2017
Someone Finally Mapped Cape Town’s Bewildering Taxi Network
Wired, Liz Stinson, February 23, 2017
The chaos of South Africa’s taxi system is being tackled with open data
Quartz Africa Lynsey Chutel, February 11, 2017
11 African startups among world’s top 100 social tech innovations
Distrupt Africa Gabriella Mullingan, January 6, 2017
Nairobi’s Colorful But Chaotic Local Bus System is Resisting Being Digitized
Quartz Africa, Joshua Masinde, November 8, 2016
How Cellphones Can Improve Transportation in Africa
The Conversation, October 2, 2016
Digital Matatus on BBC Click
BBC, October 20, 2015
Mapping Matatus
National Geographic Education, August 28, 2015
How Nairobi Got Its Ad-Hoc Bus System on Google Maps
Wired, Shara Tonn, August 26, 2015
Map & App Help People Track Transit in Nairobi
EARTH INSTITUTE, August 26, 2015
Digital Matatus project makes the invisible visible
MIT News, Ken Shulman, August 26, 2015
How we Mapped the Weirdest Streets
Medium, February 12, 2015
How Mobile is Transforming Passenger Transportation: Clearing the Way for More Livable Cities
Economist Intelligence white paper, December 3, 2014
Digital Matatus: Collaborative Research and Mapping for Nairobi’s Public Transit
African Engineering News, November 29, 2014
World’s Best Media Architecture Award
Media Architecture Biennale 2014: World Cities, November 21, 2014
Developing World Gets City Smart
SciDev.Net, November 19, 2014
The New Cartographers: How a Mapping Renaissance is Changing the Way We See Cities
Next City, Joanna Mikulski, October 13, 2014
Anson and Digital Matatus
Mapping Amman, October 6, 2014
Seeking Frugal Tech Solutions for Nairobi’s Jammed Traffic
NPR, Jacob Kushner, September 23, 2014
How data improves the daily life in Nairobi
Audi Urban Future Initiative, Franziska Queling, September 6, 2014
Using Innovation and Creativity to Enhance Mobility in Semi-Urban Areas
La Fabrique de la Cite, April 23, 2014
New Maps and Open Data Pave Way for Nairobi BRT
Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, March 7, 2014
Cities in motion: How we mapped the Matatus of Nairobi
The Guardian, Jacqueline Klopp, February 19, 2014
Digital Matatu Maps
Timbuktu Chronicles, Emeka Okafor, February 12, 2014
These Digital Maps Could Revolutionize Nairobi’s Minibus Taxi System
Next City, Jason Patinkin, February 11, 2014
This is What Informal Transit Looks Like when you Actually Map it
The Atlantic Cities, Emily Badger, February 3, 2014
Digital Matatus
Dear Toto, January 31, 2014
Nairobi Transit Map Launched
The Star (Nairobi Newspaper), Gilbert Koech and Chrispinus Wekesa, January 29, 2013
Mapping Informal Transit Networks: “Imagine not knowing where any bus in your city goes.”
Joanna Mikulski’s Policy Design Blog, Joanna Mikulski, November 11, 2013
Jacqueline Klopp, “Why proposed CBD Matatu Ban Will Not Work”, Nairobi News, September 2017 LINK
Jacqueline Klopp, Dan Orwa, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Sarah Williams and Adam White, “Informal 2.0: Seeing and Improving Urban Informal Practices through Digital Technologies The Digital Matatus case in Nairobi”, Field Actions Science Reports, June 2017 LINK
Sarah Williams, Adam White, Peter Waiganjo, Daniel Orwa, Jacqueline Klopp, “The Digital Matatu Project: Using Cell Phones to Create an Open Source Data for Nairobi's Semi-Formal Bus System,” Journal of Transportation Geography, December 2015 PDF
Jacqueline Klopp, Sarah Williams, Peter Waiganjo, Dan Orwa and Adam White. “Leveraging Cellphones for Wayfinding and Journey Planning in Semi-formal Bus Systems: Lessons from Digital Matatus in Nairobi” Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities, Springer, 2015 PDF
Sarah Williams, Jacqueline Klopp, Peter Waiganjo, Daniel Orwa, Adam White, “Digital Matatus: Using mobile technology to visualize informality” Proceedings ACSA 103rd Annual Meeting: The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center, March, 2015 PDF
Jacqueline Klopp, Jackson Mutua, Peter Waiganjo, Daniel Orwa, Adam White, Sarah Williams “Towards a Standard for Paratransit Data: Lessons from Developing GTFS Data for Nairobi's Matatu System. ” Transportation Research Board Compendium of Papers, 2014 LINK