Presentation by Lt Col Sudeep Panta of Nepal Army 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. Crowd Sourced Data
in
Ops Planning
Lt Col Sudeep Panta
Nepalese Army

2. Data Provided by KLL
• Crowd Requests
• Satellite Imageries
• Road Network and other shapefiles

3. Crowd Sourced Data
• Provider: Kathmandu Living Labs
– Direct Access to Spreadsheet
– Data:
• Organized
• Categorized
• With Geo-location
• Ready to Use
• One level of Verification done by KLL
• With contact details

4. Crowd Sourced Data
• Almost 2200 Requests
• Prioritization of data:
– Primary focused on emergency rescues
– Large Scale delivery
– Air-based supplies
• 650 requests of rescues using air assets
• Other requests were sent to local level for
necessary actions

5. Open Source Information
• Open source
–Media Reports, News, Articles
–Secondary informants
–Crowd Sourced data

7. Gap Analysis
• Identify gaps using:
– Security forces on the ground
– Rescue and Relief operations conducted so far
– Request from public (Crowd Sourced Data)

8. Logistics Supply Map

9. Issues
• Unrealistic requests
• Verification at local level (Especially for relief
works)
• Louder the voice, bigger the attention

10. What Next..?
• Establish a systematic approach/System
• Data Management
• Data verification
• Sharing among the emergency responders

11. Common Operating Picture
• Security Forces
Deployments
• Asset Deployments
• Real Time Feeds (Forest
Fire, Flood)
• News Feeds
• Crowd Feeds
Web Based Mapping Application
• Used for monitoring and planning

12. Comparing with Haiti EQ 2010
• Crowd Sourcing was not well established
• Communication System was not fully
functional for first few weeks
• Unrealistic Requests
• Responders were not aware about such
approach