Blogs
Collecting the information of Nepal Government diverse PublicBodies: PublicBodies Datathon
- Nikesh Balami | Tue Mar 08 2016
[5th March 2016] Once again, a bunch of open philosophy believers and lovers gathered for the fourth annual celebration of International Open Data Day 2016 in Nepal. This year Open Data Day was organized in three different places of Nepal and was lead by different communities. Open Knowledge Nepal in collaboration with FOSS Nepal Community Learn more
International Open Data Day 2016: PublicBodies Datathon
- Nikesh Balami | Fri Feb 26 2016
Event Details: Date: 5th March 2016, Saturday Venue: Nepal Engineers’ Association, Pulchowk, Lalitpur For Registration, please fill Google form and we will notify you with more details in 3rd March 2016, Thursday. Please contact Mr. Roshan Gautam (roosan.gm@gmail.com) and Mr. Shubham Ghimire (shubhamghimire1996@gmail.com) for more information. What is Open Data Day? Open Data Day is a global Learn more
Open Data goes local in Nepal: Findings of Nepal Open Data Index 2015
- Nikesh Balami | Fri Jan 08 2016
The Local Open Data Index Nepal 2015 is a crowdsourced survey that examines the availability of Open Data at city level. The survey was conducted for the second time in Nepal by Open Knowledge Nepal. See our previous post that announced the local index here. Background For the decentralization of power from central authority to Learn more
Nepal Open Data Index 2015
- Nikesh Balami | Tue Dec 15 2015
Nepal Open Data Index measures the openness of key data published by Nepal Government’s local bodies, Metropolitan City Offices, Sub-metropolitan City Offices, District Development Committees (DDC), Village Development Committees (VDC) etc. The main reason of running Nepal Open Data Index 2015 is to measure and monitor the state of open data across the local cities Learn more
Global Open Data Index 2015 is live now – Nepal ranked #61 this year
- Nikesh Balami | Thu Dec 10 2015
Open Knowledge International has published the Global Open Data Index 2015, showing that countries outside of Europe, the US & Canada have made some impressive gains in releasing key data. However, progress remains slow for most governments, who are still not providing key information in an accessible formats to be used, without restriction, by their Learn more
