Open Knowledge Foundation NepalDigital, Data
& AI Literacy

Digital, data and AI literacy for everyone in Nepal

Since 2013, Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal has trained youth, women, journalists, civil society and government staff to work with data confidently, use digital tools safely, and approach AI critically.

Data for Journalism training session
2,000+
people trained
15
districts reached
2,000+
people trained
15
districts reached
10+
open resources published
6
literacy courses

Three literacies, one mission

Our work spans three connected skills, each one people can put to use right away.

Digital literacy

Use everyday digital tools with confidence, protect your accounts and devices, and stay safe online.

Digital Security · Online Safety · Productivity Tools

Data literacy

Find, read and question data, from everyday spreadsheets to open government datasets, and turn it into clear, honest stories.

Open Data · Data Visualization · Spreadsheets

AI literacy

Understand what AI can and cannot do, spot its risks, and use it critically and ethically.

Prompting · AI Safety · Verification · Tackling Misinformation

Skills you can start using right away

Short, practical courses built from a decade of training rooms across Nepal.

AI

Everyday AI

A bilingual four-phase curriculum covering what AI can and cannot do, prompting, AI safety, and the STOP, CHECK, ASK verification routine. Includes a practical toolkit with a prompt bank, data-protection do's and don'ts, and a verification checklist for everyday tasks.

Beginner4 modules
Digital

Digital Security and Online Safety

Practical habits to protect your accounts, devices and personal data online. Covers password hygiene, scam and phishing identification, safe use of eSewa and other Nepali fintech apps, online freedom of expression, privacy and data protection, and digital wellbeing.

Beginner3 modules
Data · Local Government

Data and Digital Literacy for Local Government

A bilingual curriculum for local-government officers covering data management, digital tools and evidence-based decision-making. Includes training modules on the Integrated Data Management System (IDMS), data analysis, data usage and data stories.

BeginnerModular
Open Data

Open Data Fundamentals

A structured curriculum on open-data concepts, sources and reuse. Covers what open data is, where to find it in Nepal, how to assess quality and licensing, and how to put it to use, paired with a compiled learner manual for self-study or group sessions.

Beginner4 modules

How we work

Open by default

Every course, slide deck, toolkit and dataset we publish is freely licensed, so any teacher, journalist or community leader can pick it up and run their own session.

Practical and local

We teach with real Nepali datasets, real Nepali stories and real Nepali examples. Materials are increasingly bilingual in Nepali and English.

Inclusive community

We focus on people often left out of data and tech conversations: women, youth outside the Valley, persons with disabilities and underserved local governments.

Learning, applied in communities

AI Literacy: From Access to Agency2026

AI Literacy: From Access to Agency

Nepal's first formal AI-literacy pilot, run in Lalitpur with local government. We trained 15 community members and 5 ward officers to use AI for everyday tasks like drafting notices, translating and summarising, with a bilingual curriculum on prompting, safety and verification.

AILocal GovernanceTraining
Empowering Local Enterprises through Digital Roadmaps2026

Empowering Local Enterprises through Digital Roadmaps

A two-day training plus on-site mentoring that brought micro-entrepreneurs in Dhangadhi online. All 8 mentored businesses created a Facebook page and a Google Maps listing, and two landed their first ever digital customer inquiries within weeks.

DigitalLivelihoodsLocal Enterprise

Contact us for literacy work

We run tailored digital, data and AI literacy trainings for education institutions, newsrooms, governments and civil society, in English, Nepali or both.

info@oknp.org