“I will map remote villages and schools in the outskirts of Kathmandu,” said a university student enrolled in an intensive workshop on Youth Leadership, Open Mapping and Sustainable Community Development. On June 24 and 25, 20 young leaders were motivated to use open data and civic technology to solve social problems during a new courseRead more about Youth and Mapping for Social Change[…]
Author: Megha Shrestha
Kathmandu Living Labs hosted members of Global Shapers who had come to Kathmandu to learn about issues related to sustainable cities. The Global Shapers members had come to Kathmandu for the Shape South Asia conference about creating sustainable cities. During the four-day meeting in Kathmandu, they visited Kathmandu Living Labs to learn about KLL andRead more about OSM Geoweek at KLL: Global Shapers and OpenStreetMap[…]
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, or HOT, was founded on the principle that a free, open and accessible map is a tremendously useful infrastructure during disaster response. HOT has time and again played a huge role in engaging the international OSM community in creating an open, free map at times of disaster. HOT’s response to HaitiRead more about HOT Activation Workshop – Jakarta[…]
Rain and Saturday morning , two driving forces that should have been enough to keep us at home in our bed celebrating books with coffee. But not even this combination could surpass our passion for software freedom. Driven by this same passion around 80 people from different communities promoting and contributing to open source softwareRead more about Software Freedom Day 2014[…]