Writing & insight

Notes from Nepal's open-knowledge movement.

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

Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal Meetup 1

After 4 months of establishment, Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal has started regular meetup in command to create environment to create, plan, discuss and share on Open Knowledge activities, products and programs, where the concern actors and stakeholders will be part of it. Date: 28th June 2013 Venue: GPA Building , Kamaladi Kathmandu The main agendas […]

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AOSC is finally in ground with the vision of openness

The principles, protocols and values of open definition and freedom philosophy is rising in Nepal, If we see the last few month in sum, we can visualized the great impact. On the same track, new open source community born this month, they named it ACME Open Source Community (AOSC). Very energetic, passionate and red/hot blooded […]

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Pernillan and Pudo with hackers in Nepal

Last week,  lot of events were happening on support to develop the open, transparency and accountability Nepal. World Bank had directly involved to organize Open Data Literacy Bootcamp and hackathon where the international organization, civic institution like Open Institute, Open AID Partnership, Development Gateway participated to make it better. Open Nepal has launched at the […]

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South Asia and Neighbor Regional Meeting -1

We named this meeting as -1, because it was neither any planned/formal one or it was participated by majority. The idea of regional meeting was on discussion. Date: 9th June 2013, Participants Prakash Neupane, Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal Nurunnaby Chawdhury(Hasive), Open Knowledge Foundation, Bangladesh Major Agenda of Discussion was: Introduction Status of Open Knowledge Foundation […]

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Editathon in Girls in ICT Day

On the auspicious occasion of International Girls in ICT Day, Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal and Wikimedia Nepal organized wiki editathon for girls in Sumway International Business School on 25th April 2013, 25 girls were participated and did some wiki edit things. To help inspire girls to adopt technology in their career and create a global […]

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