Kathmandu Living Labs' Executive Director, Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki, has been awarded with the 50 Most Impactful Social Innovators (A Global Listing) Award at the 7th edition of World CSR Day. The award ceremony organizers believe that building a culture of innovation is the key to grooming social entrepreneurship, and this award is to recognize such efforts worldwide.
Dr. Budha......
KLL has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Neelakantha Municipality and Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City. Both local governments are committed to creating open local municipal governments and KLL is assisting them technically in realizing this goal.
KLL will create new, easy-to-use and citizen-centered municipal portals for both municipal governments. One of the high......
Nepal possesses an astonishing variety of floral and faunal species due to the diversity of its topography and habitat types. Nevertheless, Nepal´s biodiversity is declining due to anthropological stressors including rapid human population and settlement growth along with human-wildlife conflict. Furthermore, it has been stated that climate change is already having an impact on biodiversity an......
Kathmandu Living Labs will try to inspire a batch of 50+ youth from across the nation on their roles as responsible citizens in today's digital world. An hour long sensitization presentation titled, 'Youth in Digital Development' will introduce OpenStreetMap as a free, open and editable source of digital map data, which when put to right use can emerge as a cross-cutting digital infrastructure ......
U.S. Science Envoy, Dr. Linda Abriola, is currently on a visit to Nepal. As Science Envoy, she will engage at the citizen and government levels to develop partnerships, improve collaboration, and forge mutually beneficial relationships between Nepal and the United States to stimulate increased scientific cooperation and foster economic prosperity. Science Envoys travel as private citizens and ......
A team from Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL) is training the officials from the Bhutanese government on OpenStreetMap and the related tools. In addition to the government officials, KLL team will also be training over three dozen students from Royal Thimphu College (RTC), participants from private sector and development partners. The Bhutanese government aims to incorporate the benefits of the free......
KLL Executive Director, Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki will be delivering a keynote speech at the 7th International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) in Manila this September. ICCM is the leading humanitarian technology event of the year, bringing together the most important humanitarian, human rights, development and media organizations with the world’s best technology companies, software develo......
Kathmandu Living Labs held a three-day workshop in Pokhara on open data for disaster resilience. The workshop was the beginning of the Secondary Cities Project, a project to develop disaster resilience in secondary cities. The project in Pokhara is in cooperation with the American Association of Geogr......