# Climate Change, Digital Data Commons, and the Politics of Urban Transport in African Cities #### calendar\_today Date and Time **February 11, 2022** 12:00PM - 12:45PM EST #### pin\_drop Location **Zoom** CID Speaker Series presents **Jacqueline (Jackie) Klopp**, Co-Director and Research at Colombia University's Center for Sustainable Urban Development. CID Speaker Series presents **Jacqueline (Jackie) Klopp**, Co-Director and Research at Colombia University's Center for Sustainable Urban Development. Many rapidly growing African cities are experiencing large-scale transportation investment in a time of climate change and deep inequalities. Current choices around this critical urban infrastructure will have enormous impacts into the future- on public health, land-use, carbon emissions, and overall urban livability with the danger of high carbon, low livability lock-in. Despite the importance of these decisions, they tend to be made in profoundly exclusive ways. Using Nairobi as a case study, this talk explores the politics of decision making in the urban transport sector and argues that one important approach to enhancing accountability and advocacy for more just, low carbon transport in African cities involves nurturing locally driven "Digital Data Commons". Such open, shared and publicly discussed data on transportation, equity and emissions, can enhance transparency on impacts of decisions and help provoke badly needed, more inclusive planning and investment conversations. Visit the event page for more information and the registration link. Contact: See also:- [ Business, Law & Policy ](/research-areas/business-law-and-policy) - [ Harvard Kennedy School ](/school/harvard-kennedy-school) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://www.environment.harvard.edu/node/1427888/event-feed.ics) Copy link link