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International Open Data Charter — Consultation Phase

1) Open by Default, 2) Quality and Quantity, 3) Useable by All, 4) Engagement and Empowerment of Citizens, and 5) Collaboration for Development and Innovation. These are the five principals being proposed by the International Open Data…

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Open Nepal initiative takes off

To raise awareness on Open Data in Nepal and create an ecosystem to make those data more accessible to information intermediaries and subsequently to citizens, Open Nepal Week commenced on 2nd June, 2013 in Kathmandu with a series of events organized by Open Nepal partners…

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Celebrating Open Standards at Document Freedom Day

March 25th was Document Freedom Day — an international day to celebrate and raise awareness of Open Standards. Open Knowledge Nepal in collaboration with the Centre for Labour and Social Studies celebrated the day with a half-day seminar to…

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Ten cool charts that will teach you about radio in Nepal

Open Nepal is pleased to share these examples of data visualization. Data journalism is still in its infancy in Nepal, but increasingly infographics have been grabbing people’s attention to numbers with attractive designs…

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How Nepal’s NGOs Can Set the Bar for Aid Transparency!

What is aid transparency, and why is it important?

Aid transparency means that everyone can see how much aid is being given, what money is being spent on and what that money aims to achieve. This means that aid…

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Exploring civil society data and citizen-generated data on gender issues in Nepal

“Advocacy for women’s rights has always been based on stories and anecdotes, but now with data women can say ‘we count’ and inform the world ‘how we count’. Citizen-generate data is a power…

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Using data to reduce diseases, and improve healthcare, for children in Nepal

This is third in series of blogs looking at the use of data by government actors to solve development problems in Nepal. This post was first published in Development Initiatives blog section.

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Nepal’s budget transparency and dream of graduating from LDC

Last week, the findings of the 2015 Open Budget Survey and Open Budget Index were released. This independent assessment, conducted by the International Budget Partnership, compares budget transparency, participation and…

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Data Literacy Training in Sindhupalchowk District

Following up on the Data Literacy Training to Journalists in Kathmandu, YoungInnovations, in collaboration with NGO Federations of Nepal, did one more similar training to NGOs in Sindhupalchowk district on 27th Dec 2013.

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CSOs drive discourse on civil participation in the OGP Conference 2014: Its significance to Nepal

About OGP

The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global effort to secure concrete commitments from governments to drive open…

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