Open Government
Turning public data into something people can actually use.
Why This Matters
Nepal's government generates enormous amounts of data across federal, provincial, and municipal levels, but it is often locked in departmental silos, PDFs, or systems that do not talk to each other. That makes it hard for citizens, journalists, and even other government offices to use information that already belongs to the public.
What This Means for OKF Nepal
For us, open government means building the technical and legal infrastructure that lets government data be published, discovered, and reused safely, and helping the institutions that hold it get comfortable doing so, one dataset and one department at a time. It also means turning legislation and policy itself into something citizens can track and respond to, not just something published after the fact.
The Change We Want to Create
A Nepal where publishing data openly is government's default behaviour, not an exception that requires special advocacy every time.
How We Are Doing It
Primarily through specialised technical services (open data portals, integrated municipal data systems) and training and capacity building (helping government staff maintain and use what we build), backed by research into standards such as FAIR data principles.
