For the 5th time in a row, Open Knowledge Nepal team led the effort of organizing International Open Data Day in Nepal. This year it was a collaborative effort of Kathmandu Living Labs and Open Knowledge Nepal. It was also the first official out of Kathmandu Valley event of Open Knowledge Nepal. Organizations like Code […]
Digital Governance Hackathon being organized
A 2-day hackathon on Digital Governance is being organized on February 11-12 in Kathmandu, Nepal at Hotel Hardik, Bagbazaar. Hackathons are a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and subject matter experts collaborate intensively on software projects. The hackathon aims to bring people together to collaboratively work on problems that real-life digital governance projects […]
QA with Open Access Activist of Nepal
Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship […]
Who says what: 9th National Information Day Kathmandu
[22nd August 2016] By felicitating six RTI campaigners Raju Dhakal, Sailendra Jha, Biswadeep Tiwari, Modanath Trital, Govinda Dahal and Prabin Kumar Sharma. National Information Commission (NIC) marked the celebration of 9th National Information Day in Kathmandu. Honorable Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was the chief guest of an event. Every year Information Day is celebrated […]
Collecting the information of Nepal Government diverse PublicBodies: PublicBodies Datathon
[5th March 2016] Once again, a bunch of open philosophy believers and lovers gathered for the fourth annual celebration of International Open Data Day 2016 in Nepal. This year Open Data Day was organized in three different places of Nepal and was lead by different communities. Open Knowledge Nepal in collaboration with FOSS Nepal Community […]
International Open Data Day 2016: PublicBodies Datathon
Event Details: Date: 5th March 2016, Saturday Venue: Nepal Engineers’ Association, Pulchowk, Lalitpur For Registration, please fill Google form and we will notify you with more details in 3rd March 2016, Thursday. Please contact Mr. Roshan Gautam (roosan.gm@gmail.com) and Mr. Shubham Ghimire (shubhamghimire1996@gmail.com) for more information. What is Open Data Day? Open Data Day is a global […]
Highlighting the importance of Open Access & Open Research here at Nepal
Due to the ongoing crisis situation and political instability of the country, we were unable to celebrate Open Access Week 2015 like past years. so, because of this reason we planned to organize Open Access Workshop in collaboration with Open Access Nepal. The aim of an workshop was to discuss the importance of open access […]
Open Access Workshop
Basic Information: Theme: Open Access Research for Students Date: 4th December 2015 Venue: Deerwalk Institute of Technology, Tamreshwore Mahadevsthan, Jayabageshwori, Kathmandu. Time: 10:00 AM – 02:00 PM For Registration: Please contact “Roshan Gautam” <roosan.gm@gmail.com> Workshop Introduction The workshop, first of its kind will be collaboratively organized by Open Knowledge Nepal (OKN) and Open Access Nepal […]
Open Standards Seminar on the Occasion of Document Freedom Day 2015 in Nepal
Document Freedom Day is “A day where policy-makers, government officials, civil society organization (CSO), journalist, programmer and other valuable individuals come together and raise attention towards the ever growing importance of Open Standards”. Open Knowledge Nepal & Center for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) Nepal collaborated to organize Document Freedom Day 2015 at Maitighar, Kathmandu, […]
Half Day Seminar on Open Standards: Document Freedom Day 2015
Basic Information: Date: 25th March 2015 Venue: CLASS Nepal, Maitighar, Kathmandu, Nepal. Time: 01:00 PM – 05:00 PM *Please Bring your own Laptop* On the occasion of Document Freedom Day 2015 Open Knowledge Nepal, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Nepal Community and Center for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) Nepal collaboratively are going to […]