Notes from Nepal's open-knowledge movement.
Field lessons, tool releases, research findings, and reflections on making knowledge open in practice.
[Press Release] 2014 Open Data Index Shows Slow Progress by Governments in Opening up Key Data
OPEN KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHES 2014 OPEN DATA INDEX, TRACKING THE STATE OF OPEN DATA WORLDWIDE Open Knowledge has published its 2014 Open Data Index which shows that whilst there has been some progress, most governments are still not providing key information in an accessible form to their citizens and businesses. With recent estimates from McKinsey and
Read moreOpen Access Week 2014 Celebrated in Nepal
With a theme of Generation Open (Everywhere), International Open Access Week was celebrated for the first time in Nepal for the opening 2 days: October 20th, 21st. The event, which was led by newly founded Open Access Nepal, and supported by Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL) and The Right To Research Coalition (R2RC). On the
Read moreSoftware Freedom Day 2014 celebrated in Nepal
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Spirit. In Nepal, FOSS Nepal Community began celebration of SFD since 2005. In the year 2007, 2008 and 2009, for three consecutive years, FOSS Nepal’s SFD celebration was recognized as the best SFD event in the world. This year with the aim to
Read moreOKFN Meeting (20th July, 2014)
Every Sunday meetup between community members of OKFN (Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal) taken place in smart samaj office at usual time. Today 20th July, 2014 it was special day because our OKFN members Prakash Neupane and Kshitiz khanal were back after attending OKF festival which was held in Germany from July 15-17. All members are
Read more[15 June 2014] DataHub Traning @ Internal Data Learning Session
Internal Data Learning Session is Weekly informal event where we meet every Sunday 05:00 to 07:00 PM (Changed Day and Time) for some new Discussion, Training, Workshop etc. Every week one of the member of OKFN Nepal community share their ideas to the new Participant of Internal Data Learning Session and motivate them to get
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