Presentation by Chandan Goopta and Sudeep KC of National Information and Technology Center on joint Crisis Informatics workshop organized by Kathmandu Living Labs, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and University of Colorado Boulder to draw lessons from Nepal Earthquake 2015.

1. EARTHQUAKE RELIEF PORTAL
NATIONAL INFORMATION ANDTECHNOLOGY CENTER
SINGHADURBAR, KATHMANDU

2. OBJECTIVES
•Transparency of PM Relief Fund
•Bringing up earthquake related
public data live
•Emergency Contacts
•Public Notices and Press
Releases

3. CONNECTION &TEAM BUILDING
• Access to Singha Durbar and overnight stays
• Developers in and outside of the country for
volunteering
• We took site live right from the day 1 and
improved it eventually
• 15+ developers volunteered in this project
both online and offline

4. INFORMATION SCHEMA
Supply Need

5. INFORMATION SCHEMANeed
Assessment
• DATA MINING
- Mining needs from online portals like KLL, kaha.co, other various
government agencies
• SOCIAL MEDIA MINING
- Mining needs from twitter hashtag and keywords, Facebook
posts
• CROWDSOURCINGTHE NEED
- Google form #NepalNeeds for crowdsourcing need
• SEGREGATING NEEDS
- Food, Shelter (tents), Medicine,Transportation, Rescue,
Manpower

6. INFORMATION SCHEMASupply
Assessment
• Information about supplied
materials (food, tents,
medicine, rescue & relief
operations etc) started
coming in from ministries and
we made them live on portal.

7. OTHER INFORMATIONS
FundTransparency
Emergency Contacts
Casualties (Map and Data)
Press Releases
Rescue and Relief ActivitiesVideo
Recent Earthquakes

8. LESSONS LEARNED
• Open Government Data Initiatives
• Single Unified Public Portal
• Strong Database Schema
• Collaboration and proper coordination with private initiatives
• Supply and Need information flow needs to be very fast and
accurate

9. THANKYOU