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Senior Research Associate Digital Cartography Innovation and Digital Technology
Gauri Dangol is a Senior Research Associate Digital Cartography for ICIMOD, focusing on digital technology and innovation.
He has contributed to a range of cartographic innovations, including the creation of various thematic maps, travel destination maps, participatory 3-dimensional models, and the development of online/offline 3D visualizations. Gauri is adept at digital mediums, crafting digital flip books, and building 3D STL models for 3D printing. Moreover, he has been instrumental in publishing web map services, customising field data collection mobile apps using Esri ArcGIS Survey123, and further augmenting ICIMOD’s digital presence and accessibility to geospatial data.
In 2001, he was honoured with the first prize from the Department of Urban Development and Building Construction, Government of Nepal, for his groundbreaking concept design of the Kranti Gate (Kranti Dwar, Gaur, Rautaha).
Gauri Shankar Dangol
How do you protect the pulse of the planet?
What we see helps us to understand, whether we are policy makers or citizens. My work visualizing data for mountain environments and people protects the pulse of the planet because well visualized map cartography helps facilitate effective planning and decision making, which is necessary for climate action, for good environmental stewardship and for promoting wellbeing.
What is your favorite part of the work you do at ICIMOD?
Working with highly specialized professionals.
What are you passionate about?
Cartography.
My qualifications
I have over 25 years of experience in 3d modelling, computer aided design, cartography, graphics and multimedia design and large format printing. Having joined ICIMOD to work in web assistance, I have since then worked in developing ICIMOD’s intranet/internet, multimedia CDs and presentations, maps, and posters.
Before joining ICIMOD, I worked in Nepal with the United Nations Development Programme, Mercantile Office Systems, and the Department of Survey, and have contributed to digitization and activity mapping initiatives for many multilateral agencies and projects. My design concept for the Kranti Dwar (Gate) in Gaur, Rautahat, Nepal was awarded the first prize by the Department of Urban Development & Building Construction, Government of Nepal in 2001.
I have extensive experience in ArcGIS, geospatial processing programs, python, AutoCAD, Google SketchUp, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and MS Office. I completed a Bachelor of Commerce from Tribhuvan University.
