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

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