US Embassy Tech Meetup

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Prakash Neupane Ambassador | OKFN Nepal Founder President | CSITAN Member | FOSS Nepal

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Presentation about what the FOSS community in nepal are doing on, and where i am relovling for ICT in Education

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Prakash Neupane

Ambassador | OKFN NepalFounder President | CSITAN

Member | FOSS Nepal

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What I am doing?

FOSS Nepal

OKFN Nepal

CSITAN

GDG KTM

Mozilla Nepal

ITS Nepal

UNICTS Nepal

ICTAN

Mobile Nepal

MTAN

CANISOC

Nepal UNI

NRICTS ROPC

OSAC

GPA

RAN

Mitrakunj

OSM Nepal

Nepali Wikime

dia

NESO

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CSIT Association of Nepal

Amrit Campus

Patan Campus

Sidhanath Campus

St.Xavier College

New Summit

Prime College

St.LawrenceCollege

BernHerdt

Academia

HernyFord NCCS

sagarmatha

Aberdeen

AmbitionAsian

CAB

Birendra

New Summit

Nagarjuna

Madan Bhandari

Himalayan

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FOSS Nepal community

Initiated on 2004 and registered on 2005

Around 1200 members

Around 4000 online discussion

Students, Hackers, Language specialist, Advocates, Professionals, educators

Organized and participated on more than 100s of local, national and international programs

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FOSS Movement

FOSS Nepal

OSAC NOSK IOE FOSS

KU FOSS

Kath FOSS OSAC

Pokhara Butwal Chitwan Hetauda Dhangadi

Nepali Wikimedia

Mozilla Nepal

OSM Nepal

OKFNepal

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Activities

FOSS Nepal

FOSS projects

FOSS Training

Install Fest

Localization

FOSS ka kura

Deployment FM Programs

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Events

FOSS Nepal

LTSP Deployment

Bootcamp

Open Data Day

Document Freedom Day

Software Freedom Day

FOSS Orientation Conference

Open software challenge

National Exhibitions[InfoT

ech]

OER Workshop

MOST Linux Migration and

Training

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FOSS Contacts:

• Mailing list: [email protected]• Website: wiki.fossnepal.org• IRC : #foss-nepal

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OKFN Nepal

Nepali chapter of global community : Open Knowledge Foundation Network, dedicated to promoting open data and open content.(currently in Ambassador stage)

Believe in the power of openness, promote open knowledge because to deliver societal benefits:•Better Governance : increased transparency and citizen engagement •Better Culture : greater access, sharing & participation to cultural materials/activities•Better Research : reap full benefits from research activities•Better Economy : development of new innovative tools and services

Started from March 1st.

Hosted Document Freedom Day, localized panton principles, localized web content.

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OKFNNepal

Priorities

Open Data

Open GLAM

Localization

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OKFN Nepal Contacts:• Mailing List: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-np• Website: http://np.okfn.org• Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/OKFN-Nepal/610321522327415

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ICT in EducationWorking for ictializing education in Nepal

Motivating schools, teachers and students to use open content which is developed on the base of nepali curriculum and available freely.

Training teacher for efficiently use technology in daily teaching life.

Developing communication channel for implementing e-learning for school

Working for building standardization and certification.

Team Member of E-education with Information and communication Technology for underprivileged group(EEICT) and working

Collaborating with other similar minded organization.

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Building framework

E-Education

Open Educational Resources

Training Teachers

Building System

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