How technology was used by kathmandu living labs during nepal eaqrthquake 2015

1. Role of Information Technology During
Disaster
Nirab Pudasaini, Mobile Application Developer
Kathmandu Living Labs

2. Information Technology Tools
- Mapping in OpenStreetMap
- Volunteering for need and relief matching - Quakemap
- Mobile data collection

3. OpenStreetMap
- Free wiki map of the world
- Anyone can create map
- Can be used by anyone
- Offline maps and navigation
- Types of Mapping
- Remote Mapping
- Local Mapping

4. How to Map - Satellite Imagery

5. Satellite Imagery - Srijana Chowk

6. Tracing Building

7. Tracing Open Spaces

8. Mapping During Nepal Earthquake
- More than 8,000 volunteers
- Made maps using satellite imagery
- Images before and after earthquake
- Mapped roads, settlement areas and
open spaces
- Other demand based mapping
- IDP Camps
- Damaged Houses
- Helicopter Landing Sites

9. How to Learn Mapping
- Lots of online resources available
- Mapping parties : Let us organize one
- Becoming a trainer

10. Quakemap
- Map of needs
- Could be submitted using the
website, sms or mobile app
- Volunteers added reports form
facebook, twitter
- Reports forwarded to different
responding organizations
- Responding organizations could
download reports and subscribe
to new alerts

11. More than just a report
- Verification
- Categories
- Actionable
- Description
- Additional Data
- Comments

12. Quakemap During Nepal Earthquake
- 2035 reports submitted
- 982 were actionable
- 514 action taken
- 367 reports were closed
- One data source for Nepal Army
- Used heavily by youth volunteer groups

13. Mobile data collection
- Built on top of open source
- Easy to deploy and use
- Questionnaire made using Excel
- Image and location
- Data collection is offline
- Option to submit photo seperately

14. Mobile Data Collection During Nepal Earthquake
- Used by DOA to access the condition of cultural heritage site after earthquake
- Used by Mercy Crop to track relief distribution
- Used by NCell for reconstruction tracking
- Used by DOE to collect the structural data for all schools in 11 districts
- Used by the NRA to do damage assessment of 1 million houses

15. Thank You