KLL and QuakeMap in Audio-Video Bites

Kathmandu Living Labs, QuakeMap.org and its supporting partners have been aired on different radio and TV programs covering their work in aiding relief coordination and distribution in the post-earthquake era. Below is the list of audio and video bites:

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3 Ways Nepalis Are Using Crowdsourcing to Aid in Quake Relief

The New York Times writes, "In the wake of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit their country over the weekend, many Nepalis at home and abroad have found a new way to help — as digital volunteers, spending hours hunched over their laptops, using crowdsourcing technologies and social platforms to participate in the relief effort. Here are three examples of initiatives led by Nepalis to assist their countrymen as they try to rebuild, using open-source mapping, crowdfunding and crowdsourcing, and how experts see the effort."

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Open Cities Project featured in Next City Forefront

Open Cities Project is featured in Next City Forefront under the heading, ‘The New Cartographers- How a Mapping Renaissance Is Changing the Way We See Cities’. It is a story by Joanna Mikulski published on Oct 13, 2014. The article covers five different impactful mapping projects from all over the world. The World Bank’s Open Cities Project in Kathmandu is one among these.

The article talks about the start, the achievements and the after effects of the Open Cities Project in Kathmandu, which was carried out by a team led by Dr. Nama Budhathoki. This team and Dr. Budhathoki currently comprise Kathmandu Living Labs.

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Kathmandu Living Labs work wins best paper award!

The paper Robert Soden (doctoral student at University of Colorado, Boulder) co-authored with Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki and Prof. Leysia Palen has won the best student paper award at The 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. The conference was held at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park from May 18-21, 2014. The paper is titled "Resilience Building and the Crisis Informatics Agenda: Lessons Learned from Open Cities Kathmandu."

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