[OKFN-NP] Fwd: Open Knowledge Nepal / AidData

Sun Jan 11 02:50:36 UTC 2015

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nikesh Balami <nikeshbalami at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Open Knowledge Nepal / AidData
To: Daniel Runfola <drunfola at aiddata.org>, Alena Stern <astern at aiddata.org>,
Lauren Harrison <lharrison at aiddata.org>
Cc: summerfellows at aiddata.org

Hello All,

Happy to be in touch with you Daniel, I will definitely forward your
message with my team-mates and we will definitely try to make something
better from it.

Talking about AidData Summer Fellowship 2015 program more discussion is
going on. As you guys know we are volunteer based non-registered community
and hosting an fellowship is going to be tough for us.
But after taking suggestion from everyone, we are so much interested in
hosting Fellowship.

I will be submitting those filled-up EOI soon Alena.
Thanks!!

Regards,
Nikesh Balami
www.neekes.com.np

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Hempal Shrestha <hempalshrestha at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Nikesh,
>
> Hmm... can you forward me the attachment documents as well. I don't see
> what else is necessary from the prospective of summer fellow from Nepal
> side. Who/how many will these fellows be. Will they be residing in Nepal
> itself if so how long and from when.  What are the works they are allowed
> to perform, what were the experience from past summer fellowship from FF
> and KU.
>
> Also, can you inline assign the objective of the OKN to sync with the
> summer fellowship.
>
> with kind regards
>
> Hempal Shrestha
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Hempal Shrestha
> G.P.O Box: 5501
> 1753 Ramshah Path, Near Nepal Share Market,
> Putalisadak, Kathmandu, Nepal
> +977-1-4261459 (O)  / +977-9851077031(M)
>
>    [image: --]
>
> Hempal Shrestha
> [image: http://]about.me/hempalshrestha
>    <http://about.me/hempalshrestha>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Nikesh Balami <nikeshbalami at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Prakash Neupane <nprkshn at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: Open Knowledge Nepal / AidData
>> To: Nikesh Balami <nikeshbalami at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> I don't think we have resource to do it in Nepal but i think we can do
>> with help of Hempal dai.
>>
>> Send this to hempal dai and ask if we can do/
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Nikesh Balami <nikeshbalami at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Alena Stern <astern at aiddata.org>
>>> Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:22 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Open Knowledge Nepal / AidData
>>> To: Daniel Runfola <dan at danrunfola.com>
>>> Cc: Nikesh Balami <nikeshbalami at gmail.com>, Lauren Harrison <
>>> lharrison at aiddata.org>, Ashley Napier <anapier at aiddata.org>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Nikesh,
>>>
>>> It's great to be introduced and thank you for your earlier email
>>> expressing interest in the AidData Summer Fellows program. We would be very
>>> interested to explore the opportunity for placing a summer fellow with OKN
>>> for summer 2015. For reference, I have attached some additional information
>>> about the AidData Summer Fellows program which includes more information on
>>> hosting a summer fellow.
>>>
>>> If OKN is interested in hosting a summer fellow for summer 2015, we
>>> would ask that you complete the attached expression of interest (EOI) form
>>> to provide some more information on your objectives for hosting a summer
>>> fellow. This will help us to evaluate whether an AidData Summer Fellow
>>> placement is a good fit for our shared objectives. If we move forward with
>>> a placement, the EOI will serve as a launching point for us to work with
>>> you to develop a scope of work for an AidData Summer Fellow placed at OKN
>>> this summer. We will also ask you to fill out the survey at the following
>>> link to provide some information on OKN:
>>> https://jfe.qualtrics.com/form/SV_2t9WtJENyjLwQ7P
>>>
>>> While the deadline has technically passed for host organization
>>> expressions of interest, we're happy to extend the deadline for OKN based
>>> upon Dan's recommendation. To help our planning processes, it would be
>>> fantastic if you could let us know if OKN is interested in proceeding with
>>> the process for hosting a summer fellow as soon as possible, and return the
>>> completed EOI and survey to summerfellows at aiddata.org by *Wednesday,
>>> January 14th*. We know that this is a tight turnaround. It's completely
>>> fine if the EOI submitted on the 14th is in draft form to provide us with a
>>> sense of your objectives as we finalize the list of host organizations.
>>>
>>> We are also working with Kathmandu University to provide training and
>>> internship opportunities for students in Kathmandu to improve skills in
>>> geospatial data visualization and analysis and work with civil society
>>> organizations that are interested in incorporating geospatial data in their
>>> work. We're currently finalizing the outreach materials and timeline, but
>>> will send those to you when they're done to share with the cohort of
>>> students working with OKN.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have any questions about the AidData Summer
>>> Fellows program or host organization expression of interest process. Thank
>>> you again for your interest and your time.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Alena
>>>
>>> PS- I have attached the maps that our summer fellows in Nepal made last
>>> summer with geocoded redbook data in collaboration with Freedom Forum and
>>> Kathmandu University for reference.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Daniel Runfola <dan at danrunfola.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nikesh,
>>>>
>>>> It was a pleasure meeting with you in Kathmandu a few weeks ago, as
>>>> well as getting to know all of the students that work with OKN.  You've
>>>> assembled quite a group, and I'm excited to see some of the things you
>>>> produce!
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to touch base with you regarding potential next steps for how
>>>> our organizations might work together - specifically, there were three
>>>> possible directions we identified:
>>>>
>>>> (1) I'll be putting you in touch with a few other organizations
>>>> interested in red book geocoding - working out the details of how to best
>>>> facilitate this, but expect more details within the next couple of months.
>>>> (2) Below I share a few of the analytic products and data products we
>>>> have - I'd love to see what your students can produce.
>>>> (3) I noted you were interested in the potential for student exchange.
>>>> I CC both Lauren and Alena on this email, who help to coordinate our
>>>> AidData summer fellows program.  While I am not sure the degree to which
>>>> exchange arrangements are possible, they will know.
>>>>
>>>> On our data and analytic products, our best Nepal data can be found on
>>>> this site: http://aiddata.org/geocoded-datasets (specifically, the
>>>> Nepal Aid Management Platform, v 1.0).  To give you a few ideas, here are
>>>> some examples of work we or others have done using the data:
>>>> http://128.239.119.254/aiddata/MAT/
>>>> http://128.239.119.254/aiddata/grid/www/
>>>> http://aiddata.org/dashboard
>>>> http://aiddata.org/gis
>>>>
>>>> I'd be thrilled to see what cool things your students can come up
>>>> with!  As I mentioned, we aren't computer scientists here at AidData, so I
>>>> suspect ya'll may be able to do some very interesting things.
>>>>
>>>> Look forward to chatting more in the future,
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> *Dr. Daniel Miller Runfola*Geospatial Scientist | Research Assistant
>>>> Professordrunfola at aiddata.org    +1 508-316-9109
>>>> A partnership of College of William and Mary / Development Gateway /
>>>> Brigham Young University <http://aiddata.org/>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> A partnership of College of William and Mary / Development Gateway /
>>> Brigham Young University <http://aiddata.org/>AidData - Open Data for
>>> International Development <https://www.facebook.com/aiddata>
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>>> <http://aiddata.org/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Prakash Neupane
>> http://prakashneupane.com.np/my-affiliations/
>> Open Knowledge Enthusiastic
>> *Empowering through Open Knowledge*
>>
>>
>>
>>
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