> Dear All, > I am very happy to see many of you in this data expedition. After back > from OKCon first i try to arrange a venue to run our next data expedition. > But now problem is that next October 16 Muslim largest festival > Eid-ul-Adha. This time all office, student or others people pass vacation > time! This vacation time is October 14-20 or more. So now its tough to run > data expedition in Bangladesh.. > > But i'll try to arrange till now this expedition. If i got venue & some > people who help me about this issue i run the expedition. If not possible > this time i must arrange this after end of Eid vacation. > > Hi Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed..yap i know BUET team activities. But i not able > to contact any of them. I am happy if anyone of this group contact me. Its > so helpful for me and OKFn Bangladesh also. > > i add this mail loop Bangla Wikipedia Sysop Nasir Khan. Nasir so close of > mine & one of our core member of OKFn Bangladesh. He also involve with us > about this expedition. Nasir may share some idea about this expedition. > > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed < > ishtia...@csebuet.org> wrote: > >> Hi Mikel, >> >> That is a great news. A group of students from BUET is about to start a >> RMG (Ready made Garments) wikipedia.for Bangladesh, with the basic three >> components in it: >> >> 1) Locating the factories on OSM >> 2) Building a system where workers can post about a factory >> 3) Building a system where other people can post about about a factory. >> >> The postings include small information, photos, videos, and comments. The >> overall idea is to crowdsource these information (for feature 2 and 3). But >> for feature 1, active mappers are needed. I am copying this email with some >> of the students of this project. >> >> I think Mr. Nurunnaby Chowdhury can be a very interesting point of >> contact for them to push this forward. >> >> Thanks, >> Ishtiaque >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Mikel Maron <mikel_ma...@yahoo.com>wrote: >> >>> Mappers >>> >>> tl;dr: If you are a mapper in Bangladesh, or interested in Bangladesh, >>> and want to help map garment factories in OSM to provide a real >>> comprehensive transparent picture of what's going on, sign up the OKFN data >>> expedition on October 18-20. In Bangladesh, contact Nurunnaby Chowdhury < >>> nurunnabyhas...@gmail.com> for information on the local venue. >>> >>> Longer: >>> The Open Knowledge Foundation is organizing its second Data Expedition, >>> October 18-20, to collect and link data on the global garment supply chain. >>> Activity promoting *real* transparency has been increasing since the >>> tragic garment factory accidents earlier this year. Putting together a >>> comprehensive picture of the sector can hopefully bring greater >>> accountability and real rights to workers. >>> >>> http://schoolofdata.org/2013/10/02/data-expedition-garment-factories/ >>> >>> Mapping is a crucial part. OpenStreetMap's potential here is to map the >>> actual geographic context of these factories, and link/export that >>> geography to databases of customers/brands, ownership, safety records, etc. >>> We're talking actual physical building foot print, # of floors, type of >>> building (multipurpose vs single factory, etc). This needs help from >>> both mappers anywhere, to work through the existing databases and figure >>> out what needs survey; and folks on the ground, to do survey of at least a >>> node for factories, which can be associated with a footprint from satellite >>> imagery. >>> >>> To get a sense of the source data for the expedition: New data on 1500 >>> factories in Bangladesh, which have joined the safety accord was supposed >>> to be released today. >>> http://www.industriall-union.org/bangladesh-safety-accord-publishes-unprecedented-wealth-of-factory-data. >>> OKFN has started the scraping process here: >>> https://github.com/psychemedia/ScoDa-GarmentsDataExpedition/blob/master/data/accord.csv >>> >>> If you are based in Bangladesh and want to get involved, Nurunnaby >>> Chowdhury <nurunnabyhas...@gmail.com> is organizing there. For anyone >>> anywhere, Anders Pedersen <anders.peder...@okfn.org> is organizing >>> internationally. I would really like to be part of this myself, but will be >>> offline for family very soon. >>> >>> Best! >>> Mikel >>> >>> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-bd mailing list >>> Talk-bd@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-bd >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed >> PhD Student (Fulbright S&T Fellow) >> Department of Information Science >> Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, US. >> web: https://sites.google.com/site/siakallol/ >> >> > > > -- > *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* > Blog Editor | Prothom-Alo Blog <http://blog.prothom-alo.com> > Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo <http://www.prothom-alo.com> > Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Network Foundation > (OKFN)<http://www.okfn.org> > Auto-confirmed, Reviewer & Roll backer Editor | Bangla > Wikipedia<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> > Treasurer & Coordinator (PR) | Bangladesh Open Source Network > (BdOSN)<http://www.bdosn.org> > Coordinator (PR) | Society for the Popularization of Science, Bangladesh > (SPSB) <http://www.spsb.org>* > *Central Team MOVers | Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee > (BdMO)<http://www.matholympiad.org.bd> > Facebook: fb.com/nhasive | Twitter: @nhasive<http://www.twitter.com/nhasive>| > Skype: nhasive | > www.nhasive.com >
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