Development Seed: Open Atrium Improving Team Communications On the Ground in Pakistan

DAI using Open Atrium to help their GIS teams in Pakistan communicate

Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), one of the leading international development contractors, has deployed Open Atrium to help its GIS team in Islamabad communicate with its office in Peshawar and headquarters back in Bethesda on a capacity building project. In addition to improving team communications, they decided to use Open Atrium to boost the project's transparency for USAID and to get a sustainability win by using open source software that can stay behind with the local team in Pakistan long after the mapping project is completed.

How Open Atrium works.

Below is a short Q&A I had with Andrew Ross from DAI's GIS office about his work and how Open Atrium is helping.

Q: Can you tell us about your project and your team in Pakistan?

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