Ten years of digital, data and AI literacy

An AI literacy pilot with a local government in Lalitpur, combining a baseline assessment, hands-on training and a guided application period. The bilingual curriculum teaches a simple safety routine (stop, check, ask) alongside practical use of common AI tools for everyday ward-level tasks.

A training and mentorship programme for micro entrepreneurs in Dhangadhi, covering online presence, AI content tools and digital safety. Participating businesses went on to establish a digital footprint and began receiving inquiries through it.

A bilingual session for women professionals and political leaders on artificial intelligence: what it is, where it's already used across government, agriculture, media and politics, and how to use AI tools responsibly for writing, research and everyday work.

A datathon in Kathmandu where teams worked with different tiers of government alongside a panel on the right to information in Nepal. Findings were shared with the National Information Commission.

An annual conference bringing together data and technology practitioners, with keynotes, panels and workshops on themes including digital forensics, AI and gender bias, and data storytelling.

A formal training programme with Women Leaders in Technology, delivering Nepali language curriculum modules in several districts, with OKN leading module development and training delivery.

A session on error detection in open datasets built into a journalism training course, helping journalists work confidently with Nepali open data sources.

A hands-on session for data practitioners, researchers, and journalists on identifying and fixing errors in open datasets.

An annual conference exploring gender equity in data and technology through keynotes, panels, and skill-based workshops.

Community datathons where teams worked with local government data on themes including women's statistics, environment, agriculture, health, and education, producing published data stories.

A data capacity building event delivered with the global Open Knowledge Network, connecting Janakpurdham to the international Open Data Day community.

An in-person bootcamp on finding, processing, publishing, and visualising gender disaggregated data.

A fellowship placing data fellows within municipal bodies to digitise records and support evidence-based decision-making.

A virtual bootcamp covering the full Gender Data 101 curriculum for participants from partner organisations across Nepal.

A mapping hackathon in Kathmandu where college teams worked on themes including disaster resilience, public health, and safe migration.

An editathon and training series to grow Nepali Wikipedia editorship, with a focus on health-related content, delivered with Wikimedia Nepal.

The first open data event held in Tulsipur, producing winning projects on urban planning, agriculture, and education.

A volunteer-led session to improve the Open Data Nepal portal and launch new climate datasets.

A nationwide fellowship offering data skills training and a virtual internship to Nepalis affected by the pandemic, with priority given to underserved provinces.

A training event for local campus participants on using data to track national development projects.

The first open data event held in Dang, where participants uploaded new datasets and created infographics on local tourism and agriculture.

A hackathon exploring real-time air quality and water level data, producing open-source tools and visualisations.

A residential workshop series across several districts, training youth in open data, mapping and leadership, with local action plans on issues including substance abuse and gender discrimination.

A collaboration with the Centre for Data Journalism Nepal, training journalists in data extraction, cleaning, analysis, and visualisation.

A nationwide college outreach programme raising awareness of open data among youth, combining hands-on training sessions at colleges and youth organisations across multiple districts with a compiled open data manual, culminating in a hackathon in Kathmandu where participants worked collaboratively to open up closed datasets.