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Watch a journey of discovering open data in Nepal

Published June 07, 2015

Data journalist Gyanu Sharma leads us through Kathmandu Valley to meet various stakeholders of open data, in this short documentary. In his search for the right public school for his son, we see him seeking information about the financing of public schools, a sector that is underfunded in Nepal.

Map of reported #nepalearthquake deaths, injured, and houses damaged

Published April 29, 2015

Updated on May 22, 4pm EST

Recent Code for Nepal stories in Nepali media: women, education and inequality

Published April 18, 2015

A story about education disparity in Nepali newspaper

A story in Nepali based on Code for Nepal’s data anaysis was published in my republica of Nepal.

5 most and least educated districts in Nepal

Published February 27, 2015

Most and least educated districts in Nepal

Students in Nepal. Photo Credit: DFAT, Australia

Women prisoners increased by 239% in Nepal

Published February 20, 2015

In the last 8 years, the number of women prisoners increased by more than 230%. That’s shockingly a lot. We are not sure why that’s happening. We do know that recently prison inmates were forced to sleep in plastic sheds and that inmates are forced to live under open sky at the Dadeldhura prison in Nepal.