Presented during State of the Map Asia -2018 at Indian Institutes of Management, Bangalore.

1. Leading by action:
In making a strong and vibrant OSM
community in Nepal
Pradip Khatiwada
Executive Director, Youth Innovation Lab
State of the Map-Asia, 18 Nov 2018

2. Major three
timelines to
understand OSM
in Nepal
MAPPING MEET-
UP 2011
The first meeting held in
July 29, 2011 at
Brihaspati Vidyasadan,
Naxal.
NEPAL
EARTHQUAKE
2015
About 9000 people from
around the world
contributed on
OpenStreetMap that
tremendously helped to
grow OSM data.
PRESENT CONTEXT
2018
The Government, Civil
Society Organization,
and Private
institutions are using
OSM data in various
purpose.

3. Disseminating importance of
OSM through
sensitization
events

4. Organizing
Mapathons

5. MAJOR
QUESTIONS
TO THINK
❑Can sensitization alone contribute to grow
OSM community?
❑Is Mapathon in Nepal being carried out with
a different approach?
❑How is the quality of data being maintained?
❑Is sensitization event, Mapaton, and
workshop helping to produce good quality
data? What is the new approach?

6. Six-pronged
strategy
in use to make the OSM
community vibrant in Nepal
Data
Quality
and
Validation
Redefining
OSM Training
Bringing
Entrepreneurs
to OSM
Sensitization
Events
Organizing
Campaigns
Demonstrating
Impacts

7. Birth of Digital Internship and
Leadership (DIAL)
Edits
193,560
Buildings
183,362
Roads (km)
1,425
Edits
226,478
Buildings
206,089
Roads (km)
4,049
COHORT I COHORT II
19 Interns and 3
Months
8 Interns and
2 Months
DIAL is an opportunity for both outstanding students and recent graduates.
The internship is designed to develop digital skills and help the interns prepare
for (digital) leadership positions. The pool of interns will receive rigorous
training on a wide range of digital tools with particular emphasis on
OpenStreetMap (OSM). In addition, they will also receive mentorship on
career and leadership development from a group of national and international
experts.

8. Do interns with a background in
geography map more?
Comparison with crowdsourced
approach

9. The bid called to develop a mobile
app and a web portal for Disaster
Information Management System
(DIMS) for Lalitpur and
Kathmandu Metropolitan cities.
Government of Nepal
recognizing the use of
OpenStreetMap in the
bidding process.

10. Fostering
partnership
with private
Organization
Approaching private
institutions to open their
data through OSM.

11. Initiative taken by the OSM Nepal community. As most of the members
are work in different settings, we all agreed to spend an hour mapping
every Friday.
MAPping as AcTIVISM

12. Toilet mapping initiative is jointly taken by
Kathmandu Living Labs with OSM Nepal
community.MAPping as AcTIVISM

13. Demonstrations
Implemented by: NAXA

15. KATHMANDU
Changes in action!

16. DURBARMARG

17. SINDHUPALCHOK

18. POKHARA

19. Thank you.
For more information
www.youthinnovationlab.org
Email: youthpradip@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mapkathmandu