Full coverage: Nepal

20.06.2005 Lumbini Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) has recently organized a one-day orientation programme for blind and visually-impaired students of Shri Shanti Model Secondary School in Manigram, a village in Western Nepal. Shri Shanti local government school has about 850 students twenty-eight of which are either blind or visually impaired.

20.06.2005 The Open Knowledge Network, an initiative supported by organisations like MS SWaminathan Research Centre and One World International, promotes the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Nepalese chapter of the Open Knowledge Network was inaugurated recently in a bid to provide electronic resources to rural telecenters throughout the Himalayan Kingdom.

20.06.2005 The Open Knowledge Network, an initiative supported by organisations like MS SWaminathan Research Centre and One World International, promotes the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Nepalese chapter of the Open Knowledge Network was inaugurated recently in a bid to provide electronic resources to rural telecenters throughout the Himalayan Kingdom.

15.06.2005 The attention of the Ministry of Information and Communications has been drawn towards the press statement of the Independent Radio Protection Movement issued on Tuesday in connection with the problems that have surfaced regarding the operation of radio stations run under frequency modulation (FM).

02.06.2005 Bellasap in coordination with SAP International and SAP Nepal is organising a South Asian workshop on Knowledge Networking for Peace: Rhetoric or Reality? between July 13-14, 2005 in Kathmandu, Nepal. This workshop will be innovative as new approaches of knowledge sharing like, Open Space Technology, Story Telling, Peer Assist and After Action Review will be adopted.

01.06.2005 This has been said before but given the fact that the present regime is bent on breaking the back of the FM radio sector in Nepal, it needs to be said once again: The growth of the FM radios in Nepal is a clear indication of democratization at work in post-Panchayat Nepali society.