Posts tagged "open-data"
Field lessons, tool releases, research findings, and reflections on making knowledge open in practice.
When Algorithm Decides: What Nepal’s Digital Creators Are Up Against
Every day, algorithms make decisions about what Nepali voices can say online. Most of these decisions happen in milliseconds, inside systems built far from Nepal, trained mostly in English, and accountable to no one here. The people affected rarely find out why. They often cannot appeal. And there is no one to call. This is
Read moreIntroducing MuLCAM: Building the Language Foundation for Nepal’s Digital Safety Needs
Imagine reporting harassment to your supervisor, only to hear: “Do you have proof?” The messages are deleted. The screenshots you never took. The weeks of escalation, now reduced to your word against someone else’s. You go to the Cyber Crime Bureau. They ask for evidence again. They acknowledge the challenges of cross-border coordination with social
Read morePublishing and Exploring Data Just Got Easier on Open Data Nepal
With the launch of AI integration on Open Data Nepal, we also shipped two other significant upgrades to the platform: Seamless Publishing and the Comprehensive Data Explorer. This post covers both. Whether you want to contribute data or explore what is already there, these features were built with you in mind. Seamless Publishing Contributing a
Read moreStop Searching, Start Asking: AI Integration is Now Live on Open Data Nepal
When we relaunched Open Data Nepal (ODN) in October 2025, we set out a bold roadmap, a vision of what a truly intelligent, accessible, and community-driven open data platform could look like for Nepal. Among the priorities we outlined were a AI chatbot for natural-language data exploration, seamless data publishing, and experimental AI integrations through
Read moreWhen Access Isn’t Enough: Digital Inclusion Lessons from Dhangadhi
Lessons from the Empowering Local Enterprises through Digital Roadmaps program on digital inclusion, safety, and what it means to participate in Nepal’s digital future. We went to Dhangadhi expecting to find entrepreneurs who lacked access to digital tools. What we found instead were people who already had smartphones, already used the internet every day, and
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