Writing & insight

Notes from Nepal's open-knowledge movement.

Field lessons, tool releases, research findings, and reflections on making knowledge open in practice.

Education Freedom Day 2014 in Nepal

Education Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free Software used in Education and Free Educational Resources. Launched in 2013 with its first celebration in 2014 by the same organization behind Software Freedom Day. It aims at educating the worldwide public and educators about the benefits of making and sharing free knowledge and the tools

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Open Spending in Nepali Language

Who doesn’t love to study in local lanaguage? In December 16, 2013 Open Knowledge Foundation one project Open Spending, put Nepali language to its website openspending.org. The people who cannot understand the English now easily understand about the Open Spending in Local Language i.e. Nepali. Even though still some sentences and words need to be

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2070 Nepal Election Seat Distribution.

Election is one of the most important part for all the citizen to develop the country. In Nepal, after dissolve of first Constitution essambley, second election was held in November 19, 2013. In which 3 major parties are in head to head voting competition to get more votes & seat in New Constitution Essambley i.e.

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Voters Visualization On Open Election Data Week

A week long online event “Open Election Data Week” was successfully hosted in Nepal. An event was hosted from 24th Nov 2013 to 30th Nov 2013 and lot’s of contributors from the different places of Nepal contributed on different parts of Election Data online. In between different categories of Election Data, Voters Data was also

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Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 in South Asia

Transparency International launched Corruption Perception Index of 2013 among 177 countries. The index scale from 0 [extremely corrupted] to 100 [very clean], and interesting none of country has achieved 100% and result stated majority of countries has scored less than 50. Most of the European countries has good position and top score (91) is also

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