Crowdsourced Travel Bangladesh

DhakaCrowdsourced Travel

$15,025

Raised of $15,000 USD

Successfully funded on Dec 23, 2011
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About This Project


The last two years we've spent mastering open source technology has taught us the value of open source and crowdsourced travel intelligence.


As we return to Bangladesh update our guide, we want to scale up our ability to spread the tourism potential about South Asia's friendliest country:


1) Create
'Positive Light' - a crowdsourced photography book that will bring together the best images from Bangladesh into one web presence. Produce a coffee table-style photography book for the world to see. Publish a

companion website that will collect photos for the book (DONE! See link).


2) Donate our multimedia resources on Bangladesh's main tourism destinations to Wikitravel, for updating and use by the entire open source travel community. We will not be re-publishing the Bradt guide on Wikitravel. Instead we will help curate the information
that is already there and feature all of our latest discoveries, especially in Dhaka.


3) Bring together existing tools of open source web and mobile applications that will vastly improve the travel information and knowledge available to travellers in Bangladesh and the tourism industry.


4) Promote the country's best and brightest tour and ecotour operators within these platforms, especially those who work to preserve the country's precious natural resources and ethnic cultures, or who actively promote social welfare in their tourism.


5) Create a mini documentary of this effort that will span the next six months, starting in September 2011.


Check out this video of our Travel Photo Exhibition launch event:


Use Of Funds

$15,000 Tipping Point Goal

Summary:

$45,000 - total goal funding goal

- $15,000 - fixed costs for rewards (printing costs only)
- $8,500 - photographic sourcing, image editing and photobook design
- $7,000 - web development costs (strategy, design and implementation of CST website)
- $7,000 - content management of text, photos, videos to open source promotional platforms which then becomes available to everybody (Wikitravel, Bangladesh Crowdsourced Travel website, Flickr and Vimeo)
- $1,500 - outsourced web development costs (database and complex programming requirements)
- $3,000 - create a web documentary series compiling the result of this effort (VFX, editing, colouring)
- $3,000 - crowdfunding and Paypal fees

Use of funds description:

Of the $45,000 to be raised, approximately $15,000 will be spent on the rewards themselves (postcard printing, guidebook purchases and photo book printing). In the case that only the tipping point is reached, these printing costs are approximately $5,500.

Photo Book
Labour costs to produce the photobook are approximately $7,500 for sourcing the photographs, editing the images for production and design of the book itself. A further $1,000 budget is specified to promote a Dhaka launch event to be held February 2012. Of the $15,000 specified for the photobook, half of its cost is on printing and shipping.

Online - Web Development and Content Management
$15,500 will be spent on producing the Bangladesh Crowdsourced Travel website and putting its multimedia resources online at http://bangladesh.crowdsourced.travel and Wikitravel.

Of this $15,500, $7,000 will be spent on the content management time needed to push content out to Wikitravel and the Bangladesh Crowdsourced Travel website. This means preparing and editing photos, videos and text so that they sit properly on the open source platforms available to everyone and then attaching the proper licensing to that content.

The other $7,000 will be spent on web development costs -- this includes customising a Wordpress-based web platform to both collect travel photography for the book and present this platform to tour operators and travellers. There will be an outsourced programming budget of approximately $1,500 for general coding tasks not available using current open source toolsets.

If $38,000 is reached these initiatives will go ahead for the entire country. Otherwise we will scale down the amount of content to be published online and focus on Bangladesh's most essential travel destinations.

Web Documentary
The final $8,000 funds would be put towards creating a web documentary of this effort, allowing us to showcase the concept of sustainable tourism to the world. We will be filming everything we can while in Bangladesh. The remaining funds, if acquired, will be used to edit this footage into a web series on the value of sustainable tourism in Bangladesh.

Please Note:
None of this money is going to be spent on travel and equipment costs -- these include things like transport to/from and within Bangladesh, plus the computers, cameras and microphones needed to film, produce and create the social media required to feed this project. We are also organising the update of our Bangladesh travel guidebook at the same time, which is being paid for using our own funding sources.

$45,000 Stretch Goal

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$5.00

Level 1 - Shout Out - Every bit helps! We'll shout you out on the Bangladesh: Bradt Travel Guide Facebook page and we'll acknowledge you in the print copies of all our books.

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$30.00

Level 2 - Tourist - After a shout out on the Bangladesh: Bradt Travel Guide page and your name in the acknowledgments of the guide, we'll send you one of the following items: 1) Bangladesh Postcard sent via Postcardontherun.com OR 2) Package of 10 Bangladesh postcards OR 3) One high-resolution digital photograph file to print/use as you like (max recommended printing size 12"x18")

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$45.00

Portraits of Bangladesh - A notebook-sized book of black and white portraits from our Positive Light project. Great for gifts, published in February 2012. Shipping included!

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$60.00

Level 3 - Traveller - You'll receive a copy of the 2nd edition of Bangladesh: the Bradt Travel Guide (shipping included!), plus a shout out and written acknowledgment in the guide and Facebook page. Plus you'll get your choice of a Level 2 item. OR if you already own the Bradt Guide, we'll send you a copy of 'Portraits of Bangladesh' instead.

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$100.00

Level 4 - Contributor - A copy of the 2nd edition of Bangladesh: The Bradt Travel Guide and your choice of TWO of the following items: 1) Bangladesh Postcard sent via Postcardontherun.com AND/OR 2) Package of 10 Bangladesh postcards AND/OR 3) One high-resolution digital photograph file to print/use as you like (max recommended printing size 12"x18") (you can also request two of the same items if that suits). OR if you prefer, we'll send you a copy of 'Portraits of Bangladesh' instead of the guidebook. To sweeten the deal we will also give you access to one high-resolution digital file immediately from our personal photography exhibition to use as a Christmas gift.

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$125.00

Level 5 - Aspiring Travel Media - For all the aspiring travel writers and photographers out there, we'll give you two one hour consultations by phone/in person (if possible) on your travel production work and advice about setting up your career as a travel writer or photogapher, plus we'll send you a copy of the updated Bradt guide OR 'Portraits of Bangladesh'.

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$150.00

Level 6 - Connoisseur - 1) Collector's edition copy of "Positive Light" -- our upcoming crowdsourced travel photography book on Bangladesh (shipping included!), AND 2) a copy of the 2nd edition of the Bradt Guide OR 'Portraits of Bangladesh'. To sweeten the deal we will also give you access to one high-resolution digital file immediately from our personal photography exhibition to use as a Christmas gift.

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$250.00

Level 7 - Collector - 1) Collector's edition copy of "Positive Light" -- our upcoming crowdsourced travel photography book on Bangladesh AND 2) a copy of the 2nd edition of the Bradt Guide AND 3) a copy of 'Portraits of Bangladesh'. AND 4) Your choice of THREE awards from the level 2 category (postcard, pack of 10 postcards or a digital photo to print yourself) AND 5) We will also send you access to one digital file immediately to use as a christmas gift.

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$500.00

Level 8 - Bondhu - 1) You'll receive signed copies of the guidebook, photobook and portrait book AND 2) a packet of postcards, a signed postcard from Bangladesh and access to one high-resolution digital photograph for self-printing (or your choice of three of one of the above). AND 3) You'll also receive a producer credit in the web documentary if we make our funding goal AND 4) special acknowledgment in Positive Light photography book. AND 5) We will also send you access to one digital file immediately to use as a christmas gift. ***special acknowledgement (e.g. sponsors page) to be arranged separately in discussion with the author. Please contact us first at [email protected]

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$1,000.00

Level 9 - Freedom Fighter - You'll receive producer credit in our Bangladesh travel web documentary, plus you'll receive all the goods of level 7: 1) Signed copy of the 2nd edition of Bangladesh: the Bradt Travel Guide AND 2) Signed copies of "Positive Light" and "Portraits of Bangladesh" AND 3) Special acknowledgement in the Bradt Guide and Positive Light photography book* AND 4) Any combination of THREE of the below items: a) Handwritten Postcard sent from Bangladesh b) Package of 10 Bangladesh postcards c) One high-resolution digital photograph file to print/use as you like (max recommended printing size 12"x18") AND 5) We will also send you access to one digital file immediately to use as a christmas gift. *special acknowledgement (e.g. advertising) to be arranged separately in discussion with the author. Please contact us first at [email protected]

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$3,000.00

Level 10 - Crowdsourced Traveller - Customised two-week tour of Bangladesh, hosted by Mikey Leung, to be run in February 2012, plus all the above rewards. PLEASE NOTE: Flights are not included in this reward, but all ground expenses will be covered and will include either guidance to the best places to photograph in Bangladesh or on the ground travel photography/writing training with local guides. Mikey Leung is a former Intrepid Travel tour leader and runs yearly tours to Asia for friends and family.

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