Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm. Empowering everyone to innovate BOIL focuses on collecting information and achieved experienced on community issues all over Bangladesh and bring the information on the open platform in spatial and non-spatial manner to enhance the coordination among the concerned agencies as well as the cross boundary. To organize trainings on OpenStreetMap, QGIS, GeoNode, Open Layers, Carto in an integrated approach for addressing and solving community issues such as (a) Tagging and mapping the vulnerable communities through OpenStreetMap; (b) Pre-disaster mapping in pro poor communities; (c) Disaster response initiative by open data; (d) Strengthening the community through ICT knowledge;(e) Training on object-oriented data analysis and visualization and (f) Hands on training on bridging data portals. It provides consultancy and support in the field of education, training, data mining data management, digital innovation and Information technology-based solution, research, etc. & assist the smooth implementation of different kinds of development projects.