New on the ExCiteS blog: WhatsApp Maps? Can ground data users bridge the poverty gap by paying land users for bridging the ground data gap? How? Why data-cash exchanges? What about data quality? And impact? This short article (reading time: 10 minutes) briefly addresses these questions based on an ongoing pilot in rural Ethiopia where local communities are using WhatsApp for remunerated ground data collection on population and water infrastructure. https://uclexcites.blog/2024/06/26/whatsapp-maps-connecting-users-and-producers-of-ground-information/