<p dir="ltr">Thanks Sam for the link! <br>
As you can see in the article, we the Kathmandu Living Labs have been working closely with the Himalayan disaster volunteer group / yellow house volunteers via our Quakemap.org platform. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We could perhaps increase collaborations around use and contributions to OpenStreetMap data, we can follow up with that in the days to come. Thanks for the pointer! </p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2015, 8:06 PM Sam B <<a href="mailto:sbendett@gmail.com">sbendett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Friends- looks like your efforts can use the information collected by this Yellow House group:</div><div><a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/05/nepal-earthquake-aid/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2015/05/nepal-earthquake-aid/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>One week later, someone showed up: a raft guide named Megh Ale, who
operates an eco-resort on the Bhote Koshi. He arrived with some medical
supplies, volunteers, and not enough food. Upon seeing the extent of the
devastation, he approached the Deujas. Ale told the cousins to head to
Kathmandu and find a bed-and-breakfast called the Yellow House. Over the
past two weeks, as the government and large international NGOs have
struggled to deliver supplies in Nepal’s remote regions, the Yellow
House has emerged as the hub of a vibrant guerrilla aid operation run by
a handful of young people armed with little more than Facebook, open
source mapping technology, local knowledge, and some antiestablishment
verve.</p>
<p>Unregistered, unlicensed, and nonexistent in official terms, the
Yellow House group is one of many ad hoc efforts that have cropped up to
deliver aid to some of the quake’s hardest-hit areas quickly and
without much fuss. Recently, the milieu at the Yellow House has expanded
from urbane young Nepalis and wide-eyed international travelers to
include prominent NGOs such as Team Rubicon, a group of US military vets
sponsored by the Home Depot. Even the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees (UNHCR) has started delivering supplies through the group.
But Sandesh and Dipak didn’t know any of that, nor would they have
particularly cared. They just needed some rice and tarps, given the
forthcoming monsoons. So they recruited two of the town’s other young,
strong men. Then they started walking down the mountain.</p><br></div>
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