Bamiyan Development Community Portal

Virtual Campfire projects in progress, providing a framework of mobile social software to bridge wide communities and diverse multimedia. A short overview is given here:

On the occasion of the 5th UNESCO/ICOMOS conference different experts from various fields of cultural heritage management were inerviewed towards the preservation of the Bamiyan Site. Check out the insights that these professionals can give you. Interviews

The Master Plan has been adopted by the Ministry of Urban Development in March 2006 and will serve as guiding idea for the development of the whole Bamiyan Valley. The UNESCO Cultural Masterplan elaborated by RWTH Aachen University is now online available on this website. see Cultural Master Plan

ACIS is developed as a community information system for cultural heritage management in Afghanistan. Based on an MS Access database developed by Department of Urban History at RWTH Aachen University, ACIS employs open web architecture and standards and Oracle technologies to present its diverse user communities a GIS-based multimedia community system integrating the existing data migrated from the Access database. Here you can post discussion messages in Forums, share your pictures and other files in Image and File Galleries and so on. An online demo is available. Request an account and give it a try!