Rebuilding community to work on climate and environment data

- Nikesh Balami | Sun Mar 14 2021

The event summary of this blog post was written by Dikpal Khatri Chhetry. Being a community-driven organization, the COVID-19 pandemic was a nightmare for Open Knowledge Nepal. Like many organizations around the world, we went through the difficult phase; struggling to find new projects and sustaining existing ones. More importantly, we missed reaching out to Learn more

Open Knowledge Nepal launches Air Quality Nepal Twitter Bot

- Nikesh Balami | Sun Mar 01 2020

As per the monitoring data published by the Department of Environment at pollution.gov.np, which comes under the Ministry of Forests and Environment, Nepal has seen the increasing growth of air pollution but despite all this, we see very few government-led initiatives which aim to sensitize citizens regarding air pollution and its health effects. Although the Learn more

Geeking out Realtime Data at Open Data Hackathon

- Nikesh Balami | Sun Aug 04 2019

On 26th July 2019, Around 35 data geeks and environment experts came together at Open Data Hackathon organized by Open Knowledge Nepal to explore the real-time air pollution and hydrology data to find key insights. The event started with the basic introduction of the real-time data dashboard and datasets available. The participants were then divided Learn more

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