Liberating Knowledge for Opportunities

"A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few."

THIS IS THE WORLD WE CHOOSE.

We bring together a diverse community, building a network of individuals and organisations, founded on key principles.

Open Knowledge Nepal is a non-profit civic tech organization comprised of openness aficionados. We believe that openness of data is powerful in order to have participatory government with civil society, eventually leading to sustainable development. The organization has been involved in research, advocacy, training, workshops and developing tools related to open knowledge. We also provide data services and solutions to various agencies and specialized in solving data related problems through consultation and tools development.

Our Service

Training and Capacity Building

We work to empower CSOs, journalists and citizens with the skills they need to use data effectively, through both online and in-person “learning through doing” workshops....

Specialized Technical Services

We help people to solve the technical, social and legal challenges of opening up data and are specialized in providing data-driven services and technical expertise....

Research, Analysis and Writing

We are one of the open data pioneers of Nepal and always ready explore new areas in depth, including developing principles and standards as part of our analysis....

“Today we find ourselves in the midst of an open data revolution”

Recent Blog

March 19, 2021
On the occasion of the International Open Data Day (March 6, 2021), Open Knowledge Nepal organized a day-long ‘Datathon’ in Tulsipur Dang, where in-total 30 participants joined the event...
March 18, 2021
While Nepal’s first Women in Data Conference was hosted by The Data for Development (D4D) Programme on February 23, 2019 with the theme डाटा शक्ति नारी शक्...
March 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 org...

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