A two days conference on State of Open Map Data was successfully organized here at Nepal, this September 23-24,2017. Kathmandu Living Labs and OSM Community of Nepal together hosted the event. Event was conducted at Park Village hotel & Resort, Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu.
The conference was hosted by Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki who welcomed the participants and provided overview of the conference. Dr. Lee Schwartz, Prof. Taichi Furuhashi and Kate Chapman were the Keynote speakers of the Conference.
This two day conference had various presentations, seminars, workshop and interaction section. Country representatives from Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam gave presentation on the State of the Map focusing on their respective countries. Conference organized Workshop on following topics:
- MAPS.ME
- Open Data Manipulation
Government representatives from Nepal and other countries were present during the workshop. A Government panel was hosted to discuss the plans, actions, progress and challenges they were facing about Open Data and Open Mapping.
Conference hosted presentation on topics like
- Secondary Cities in action
- Tools and Projects around OSM
- The Future of OSM in Asia and Beyond
- Map Data Integrity
Use of Open Data and Open Streets Map has helped Volunteers, Armies, Rescue Personnel, Relief Campaigners, from Nepal & all over the world to fight Earthquake that happened back in 2015. This conference organized NEPAL EARTHQUAKE SESSION where Ministry of Home Affairs, Nepal Army, Nepal Police, Central Bureau of Statistics and Kathmandu Living Labs share their experiences about how they used Open Data in that period of Emergency.
This was the Third State of the Map Conference. Last year the STATE OF THE MAP was conducted at Brussels, Belgium. This year Kathmandu Living Labs, an emerging Tech Organization which works rigorously on Geographical Data, Maps and various areas of Open Data is hosted the event which happened to be a grand success.
Dr. Govinda Raj Pokhkarel, CEO, National Reconstruction Authority formally ended the program with some insightful closing remarks.
You can find more details about the #SOMASIA2017 conference on its official links, some of them are mentioned below:
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