Dr. Reinhard Goethert and Dr. Martin Scoppa - the SIGUS Post-Doc from the MIT-Singapore program (SUTD) - attended the UN Habitat 6th International Conference 'RESPONSIVE URBANISM IN INFORMAL AREAS', hosted by Cairo University, November 25-27, 2014.  The conference was held in preparation for the National Urban Forum in 2015.  Goethert made a keynote presentation on 'Capturing Process of Informal  Housing Development'.  Both Scoppa and Goethert held a workshop on "GATHERING DATA WHEN ACCESS IS DIFFICULT - EXPERIMENTING WITH GOOGLE EARTH AS SURROGATE."  The eight site and services/core house projects in Egypt of the 70s were the projects assessed.