taking the opportunity of available technology and smartphones unhabitats global public space programme uses an open source application kobotoolbox to collect public spacerelated data on the neighbourhood but also at the citywide level this data collection process follows a few basic steps first a map of all the open spaces is prepared in which satellite images are used to identify the open public spaces markets and public facilities thereafter local data collectors are trained on the use of the open source application for data collection each assessment is then uploaded onto the server to be further analysed