Notes from Nepal's open-knowledge movement.
Field lessons, tool releases, research findings, and reflections on making knowledge open in practice.
People needs all kinds of Data for Innovation: 2nd Data Hackers Meetup
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 & […]
Read moreHow Open Map Data is Helping Save Lives in Nepal
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 […]
Read moreखुल्ला ज्ञान समुदायका सदस्य शुभजित गांगुलीको सम्झनामा
हामी यो खबर सुन्दा दुखी छौ कि खुला ज्ञानका भारतिय दूत तथा यस क्षेत्रका एक प्रमुख व्यक्तित्व, शुभजित गांगुलीको असामयिक निधन भयो । शुभजित गांगुली छोटो अवधिको बिरामीपछि, त्यहाको समय अनुसार अप्रिल ७ तारिकमा ३० वर्षको अल्पायुमै भारतको कोलकत्तास्थित आफ्नो गृहनगरको अस्पतालमा बित्नु भएको छ । वहाँको निधनले सम्पुर्ण परिवार, अाफन्तजन, सहयोगी र साथीभाई लगायत […]
Read moreOpen Standards Seminar on the Occasion of Document Freedom Day 2015 in Nepal
Document Freedom Day is “A day where policy-makers, government officials, civil society organization (CSO), journalist, programmer and other valuable individuals come together and raise attention towards the ever growing importance of Open Standards”. Open Knowledge Nepal & Center for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) Nepal collaborated to organize Document Freedom Day 2015 at Maitighar, Kathmandu, […]
Read moreDiscussion about Open Education Started: Meeting with Rob Grande from LOOMA Project
To mark the worldwide celebration of Free Software used in Education and Free Educational Resources: Education Freedom Day 2015 and Open Education Week 2015, we hosted one small informal discussion session with Rob Grande (Representative of LOOMA Project) on the date, 17th March 2015. A discussion session was hosted at FOSS e-Solution which is situated […]
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