Dati e donne. Correlazioni pericolose e soffitti di cristallo
Maurizio Napolitano - May 20, 2018 in bologna, Cultura, donne, Events, geek girls, Open Data, opendataday
Maurizio Napolitano - May 20, 2018 in bologna, Cultura, donne, Events, geek girls, Open Data, opendataday
Maurizio Napolitano - May 20, 2018 in bologna, Cultura, donne, Events, geek girls, Open Data, opendataday
Joseph De Guia - April 10, 2017 in #ODDPH, #OKPH, Events, News, Open Data Day Philippines, opendataday
Rodrigo Valdez - March 27, 2017 in budget, civic tech, Open Data, Open Data Day, Open Knowledge, opendataday
Nikesh Balami - March 13, 2017 in Events, nepal, ODD17, Open Access, Open Data, Open Map Data, Open Research, Open Science, opendataday
Nikesh Balami - March 13, 2017 in Events, nepal, ODD17, Open Access, Open Data, Open Map Data, Open Research, Open Science, opendataday
For the 5th time in a row, Open Knowledge Nepal team led the effort of organizing International Open Data Day in Nepal. This year it was a collaborative effort of Kathmandu Living Labs and Open Knowledge Nepal. It was also the first official out of Kathmandu Valley event of Open Knowledge Nepal. Organizations like Code for Nepal, Gandaki College of Engineering and Science and Open Access Nepal were the partners for the event. In Nepal, the event aims to served as a platform for bringing together open knowledge enthusiasts from different backgrounds, and support a series of collaborative events for enhancing knowledge and awareness about free and open source software, open data, open content, and various open knowledge technologies. There were 4 different major activities of the event: Presentation Session, Open Street Mapathon, Open Research Data Hackathon and Treasure Hunt.
The check in started around 10:30 AM (NPT), with the participants, slowly joining the venue and with some informal discussion having around and was formally started by Mr. Ashok Raj Parajuli, Vice-Principal of Gandaki College of Engineering and Science at 11:20 AM (NPT) by giving brief introduction of Open Data and why it is important for the country like Nepal. After him, Nikesh Balami from Open Knowledge Nepal gave an event orientation. He shared how Open Data Day was started and history of Open Data Day celebration at Nepal. After having a brief orientation about major activities, the presentation session was started.
Gaurav Thapa from Kathmandu Living Labs was the first presenter of the event. He gave the presentation about Open Map Data and the concept of 2C (Secondary City) Pokhara. He also demonstrated the work done by Kathmandu Living Labs in Pokhara with the help of other organizations and asked participants to join them for contribution and collaboration. He also shares about the app “Prepare Pokhara”, an app which uses the data of OpenStreetMap with different kinds of filtering techniques, by using that app user can easily filter and navigate all kinds of important places and destination of Pokhara in Map.
After the presentation of Gaurav Thapa, Kshitiz Khanal representing Open Knowledge Nepal participated in presentation session, where he presented about Open Access, Open Science, and Open Research. He started from the basic introduction of OPEN and highlighted the condition of Open Access in Nepal. He also demonstrated, how Nepal government and others different bodies of Nepal government are creating Open Access barriers for users. He shared about Open Science Taxonomy and talks a little about the Open Science and Research practices in Nepal. He motivated the participants to read research article frequently so that we can make the best use of publicly funded research. His presentation can be accessed from here.
There was a small break after the completion of Presentation Session and the rooms for Open Research Data Hackathon and Mapathon was divided after that break. Participants interested in joining Hackathon moved towards the Lab and those who were interested in Research Data Hackathon stayed in the same room.
Open Research Data Hackathon
Open Research Data Hackathon was facilitated by the team of Open Knowledge Nepal. Nikesh Balami from OKN started the hackathon by giving a short presentation about Data and demonstrating different kinds of tools they can use during Hackathon. After an orientation, the group was divided. There were 4 groups, who worked and brainstorm different kinds of ideas for the entire day. A group pitched a project twice, in the first pitch, they share the brainstormed idea and in the second pitch, they share about how they are doing that project, possible partners, challenges, and opportunity. The proposed idea of all 4 team was entirely different from each other, some work in Election Data and some work in using Machine learning to extract research data from users search queries. Some team worked in the use of data disaster prediction and some in Blood data.
It will be interesting to see the progress of their projects in coming days.
Mapathon
Mapathon was facilitated by the team of Kathmandu Living Labs. In Mapathon participants used satellite image to map Bardiya district of Nepal at OpenStreetMap, where participants got an opportunity to play with Open Map Data and OpenStreetMap. The team of KLL also led Treasure Hunt in-between to make Mapathon interesting and interactive, where participants went to the fields in the search of treasures which was hidden at different places by the KLL team. Participants used OpenStreetMap for this and enjoyed the activities so much. In fact, Mapathon was interactive where participant got hands-on training on how to contribute at OSM, did some contribution and also tried using it in their real life.
The whole event was closed at 04:30 PM by thanking participants and supporters. The promise of organizing this kind of International events outside of the main valley of Nepal was made by the representation of Open Knowledge Nepal and Kathmandu Living Labs. This year International Open Data Day 2017 was organized at four different places of Nepal. Two inside Kathmandu, one by YoungInnovation Pvt. Ltd. and one by Accountability Lab. In Pokhara, it was organized by Open Knowledge Nepal and Kathmandu Living Labs. Kathmandu University Open Source Community (KUOSC) also organized ODD first time in Kavre. This clearly shows that the momentum of Open Data is increasing in Nepal, which we (Civil Society Organization) can take it as a plus point.
Group photo and selfie
Event Page: https://oddnepal.github.io
More photos from our Facebook page here.
okfj - December 12, 2016 in Events, Featured, iodd2017, opendata, opendataday, OpenGovernment, インターナショナル・オープンデータデイ, オープンガバメント, オープンデータ
Nikesh Balami - March 8, 2016 in Data, datathon, db2map, Events, NGOs, odd16, ODDNepal, oddnp, Open Data, opendataday, publicbodies
Mr. Nikesh Balami, Open Government Data Team Lead of Open Knowledge Nepal started by welcoming and thanking all the participants for joining the event. He explained what open data day is and how it has been celebrated in Nepal during the past few years.
After making a bit change in the presentation schedule, Mr. Navin Khadka representing db2map, was welcomed for the first presentation of a day. Mr. Navin described their product db2map and also shared details about their upcoming planning. Db2map helps people to visualize their data in the interactive map of Nepal, by using a simple draging and droping method. He also shared work which they had completed in the past and how it is making an impact.
Right after the presentation of db2map, Mr. Shubham Ghimire, Volunteer of Open Knowledge Nepal was called on the stage for the presentation of NGOs in Nepal. NGOs in Nepal is the crowdsourced online directory of NGO’s located in map with their contact information. Mr. Ghimire shared how the initiative was started after the April earthquake and how people and NGO’s both benefit from it. At the end of his presentation, he asked participants to contribute by submitting additional information on NGO’s, which they know of within their locality.
Mr. Chandan Goopta, Co-Founder of The Opnio joined the stage after the presentation of Mr. Shubham. Mr. Goopta presented information about the Android app project of the Nepal Government lead by NITC. This app contains all the information related to the government administration. The idea behind the app is to bridge the gap between citizens and the government by taking the notices, decisions etc made by government accessible to the public. The name of an app was “NepGov Portal” and at the end of his talk, he also asked participants engaged with the project with their own contributions.
After that Mr. Nikesh Balami from Open Knowledge again joined the stage for his orientation presentation of PublicBodies Nepal. He first presented a little bit about the community “Open Knowledge Nepal” and then shared the whole concept of PublicBodies Nepal, including how the data / information will be presented and how it will be collected. He also notified participants that all of them will be working together on data collection during the Datathon..
Last but not the least, there was an presentation from Mr. Saroj Dhakal, Consultant for Google, and an active contributor to the Nepali Wikipedia. He presented on an upcoming project named “Open Transits Nepal”. The aim of this project is to collect the data of all transits point used by Nepali Transportation and to release those data in the Open Domain. So that anyone from all around the world can build innovative ideas around this data. After the presentation of Mr. Dhakal, the formal presentation session was completed and the coffee break started.
During coffee break, the groups split into the Datathon session. Right after the break Mr. Nikesh who is currently leading PublicBodies Nepal project, briefed participants and shared all the resources with them, which they would need while collecting data. A google form was used for data collection and participants searched and trawled different government websites for one to one data collection. The Datathon was followed by many small lunch and coffee breaks. While going through many websites for the information collection, participants also identified different mistakes and updated information in many government bodies websites, which highlights the topic for further discussion. Some participants contributed the information on local public bodies. At the end of the day, more that 150 information around Nepal Government diverse public bodies was collected by the participants.
At the end of an event, Mr. Nikesh demonstrated the basic design of the PublicBodies Nepal portal, still in the development, and gathered feedbacks from participants. The event was ended with a group photo. nd formally ends the event by asking everyone for the group photo.
Nikesh Balami - March 8, 2016 in Data, datathon, db2map, Events, NGOs, odd16, ODDNepal, oddnp, Open Data, opendataday, publicbodies
[5th March 2016] Once again, like past years a bunch of open philosophy believers and lovers gathers for the fourth annual celebration of International Open Data Day 2016 in Nepal. This year Open Data Day was organized in 3 different places of Nepal and was lead by different communities. Open Knowledge Nepal in collaboration with FOSS Nepal Community and CSIT Association of Nepal, hosted a series of presentation and PublicBodies Datathon to celebrate the global celebration of openness in Nepal. The event was held in Nepal Engineers’ Association, Pulchowk, Lalitpur and was stated from 10:00 AM (NST). Event planning and details can be found from the event page.
Mr. Nikesh Balami, Open Government Data Team Lead of Open Knowledge Nepal started an event by welcoming and thanking all the participant for joining the event. He shared what open data day is and how it was celebrated in Nepal during past years. After having basic orientation of event schedule, the presentation session was started.
After making a bit change in the presentation schedule, Mr. Navin Khadka representing db2map was welcomed for the first presentation of a day. Mr. Navin shared about their product db2map and also share about their upcoming planning. Db2map helps normal people to visualize their data into the interactive map of Nepal, easily just by drag and drop method. He also shared about the past work which they had done and how it is making impacts.
Right after the presentation of db2map, Mr. Shubham Ghimire, Volunteer of Open Knowledge Nepal was called on the stage for the presentation of NGOs in Nepal. NGOs in Nepal is the crowdsourced online directory of NGO’s with their location in map & contact information. Mr. Ghimire shared how the initiative was started after the April earthquake & how people and NGO’s both can be benefits from it. In the end of his presentation, he asked participant to contribute by submitting the information of the NGO’s, which they know and which are within their locality.
Mr. Chandan Goopta, Co-Founder of The Opnio join the stage after the presentation of Mr. Shubham. Mr. Goopta was their to share information about the Android app project of Nepal Government lead by NITC. Which contains all the info related to the government main body and the plan of an app was to bridge the gap between citizen and government by taking the notices, decision etc made by government within public easily and efficiently. The name of an app was “NepGov Portal” and at the end of his talk, he also asked participants to be engaged with the project with their contribution.
After that Mr. Nikesh Balami from OKN again joined the stage for his orientation presentation of PublicBodies Nepal. He first shared a little bit about the community “Open Knowledge Nepal” and then shared the whole concept of PublicBodies Nepal. How the data / information will be presented and how it will be collected etc. He also notify participant that all of them will be working for an data collection during the Datathon.
Last but not the least, Their was an presentation from Mr. Saroj Dhakal, Consultant for Google and the active contributor of Nepali Wikipedia. He was their on the stage to share about the upcoming project named “Open Transits Nepal”. The aim of an project is to collect the data of all transits point used by Nepali Transportation and to release those data in Open Domain. So, that any one from all around the world can bring some innovative ideas from those data. After the presentation of Mr. Dhakal, formal presentation session was completed and the coffee break was started.
During coffee break, the group division was made for an Datathon and right after the break Mr. Nikesh who is currently leading PublicBodies Nepal project, gave the orientation to participants and shared all the resources with them, which they required while collecting Data. Google form was used for an data collection and participant searched & goes through different government website for one to one data collection. The Datathon was followed by many small lunch and coffee breaks. While going through many websites for an information collection, participants also figure out different mistake and un-upated information in many government bodies websites, which highlights the topic for an discussion. Some participants contributed the information of an public bodies, which are around their locality. At the end of the day, more that 150+ information of Nepal Government diverse public bodies was collected by the participants.
In the end of an event, Mr. Nikesh shows the basic design of an PublicBodies Nepal portal, which is still in the development phase and takes feedbacks from participants & formally ends the events by asking everyone for the group photo.