Highlighting the importance of Open Access & Open Research here at Nepal

- Nikesh Balami | Sun Dec 06 2015

Due to the ongoing crisis situation and political instability of the country, we were unable to celebrate Open Access Week 2015 like past years. so, because of this reason we planned to organize Open Access Workshop in collaboration with Open Access Nepal. The aim of an workshop was to discuss the importance of open access Learn more

Open Access Workshop

- Nikesh Balami | Mon Nov 30 2015

Basic Information: Theme: Open Access Research for Students Date: 4th December 2015 Venue: Deerwalk Institute of Technology, Tamreshwore Mahadevsthan, Jayabageshwori, Kathmandu. Time: 10:00 AM – 02:00 PM For Registration: Please contact “Roshan Gautam” <roosan.gm@gmail.com> Workshop Introduction The workshop, first of its kind will be collaboratively organized by Open Knowledge Nepal (OKN) and Open Access Nepal Learn more

In memory of Michael Bauer

- Nikesh Balami | Sun Sep 27 2015

Reblogged from School of Data Blog, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v3.0 License   “It was with great sadness that we learned last week that we had lost one of our greats. Michael Bauer passed away suddenly on 13th September 2015 while running the Wachau half marathon. In this post, the School of Data team Learn more

People needs all kinds of Data for Innovation: 2nd Data Hackers Meetup

- Nikesh Balami | Thu Jul 09 2015

Recently formed Developer Nepal (DN): Data Hackers Group organized their second edition of Data Meetup on the date of 8th July 2015 at Parewa Labs, Kupondole, Nepal. The main aim of the meetup and the group was to bring Data Hackers “Who plays lot’s on different kinds of Data and Programming Languages like Python & Learn more

How Open Map Data is Helping Save Lives in Nepal

- Nikesh Balami | Wed Jun 17 2015

Reblogged form School Of Data Blog, Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v3.0 My name is Nirab Pudasaini, and I am a new School of Data fellow from Nepal. Just 5 days after the beginning of my fellowship, a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.9 hit my country. It was on April 25th. As of May 30 Learn more