Open Knowledge Nepal — A nonprofit organization!!

- Nikesh Balami | Fri Jun 30 2017

  After working for almost 4 years in various Open Knowledge fields as an open, volunteer-led community, we are now proud of announcing ourselves as a registered organization, as an officially registered non-profit organization under Nepal Government, Company Act 2063. The registration number of Open Knowledge Nepal at Office of Company Registrar, Tripureshwor is 16071/073/074 Learn more

Open Access and Open Data gaining momentum in Nepal

- Nikesh Balami | Mon Mar 13 2017

For the 5th time in a row, Open Knowledge Nepal team led the effort of organizing International Open Data Day in Nepal. This year it was a collaborative effort of Kathmandu Living Labs and Open Knowledge Nepal. It was also the first official out of Kathmandu Valley event of Open Knowledge Nepal. Organizations like Code Learn more

Digital Governance Hackathon being organized

- Nikesh Balami | Fri Feb 10 2017

A 2-day hackathon on Digital Governance is being organized on February 11-12 in Kathmandu, Nepal at Hotel Hardik, Bagbazaar. Hackathons are a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and subject matter experts collaborate intensively on software projects. The hackathon aims to bring people together to collaboratively work on problems that real-life digital governance projects Learn more

Citizen Science in Context of Nepal

- Shubham Ghimire | Thu Dec 22 2016

“Citizen Science is the collection and analysis of data relating to the natural world by members of the general public, typically as part of a collaborative project with professional scientists.” -Oxford Dictionary Science is our most reliable system of gaining new knowledge and citizen science is the involvement of the public in scientific research, discovery Learn more

QA with Open Access Activist of Nepal

- Nikesh Balami | Sat Oct 29 2016

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship Learn more