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| <nettime> NEPAL: Looking at 'commons' initiatives there... |
Thanks to help from Hempal Shrestha <[email protected]> I've managed to put together some 'commons' links from Nepal, defining the term in a broad perspective. Please add more that you might know of. The ones listed below related to Nepal or the Nepali language/community, which give a hint of the creation, management and proliferation of digital content in initiatives where the Net is taking things forward (but not restricted to the internet alone). Some listed are also general sites ... * Wikipedia, in Nepali. Over 2500 entries, according to the last count. http://ne.wikipedia.org * Wictionary in Nepali. http://ne.wiktionary.org/ * Wikibooks in Nepali: http://ne.wikibooks.org/ * WIkinews in Nepali (proposed): http://ne.wikinews.org/wiki/ * Nepal on Wikipedia: http://nepalonwikipedia.notlong.com (6200 links) * Wikitravel on Nepal: http://wikitravel.org/en/Nepal Mid-west Nepal: http://wikitravel.org/en/Mid_Western_Nepal Annapurna: http://wikitravel.org/en/Annapurna Kathmandu Valley: http://wikitravel.org/en/Kathmandu_Valley Kathmandu: http://wikitravel.org/en/Kathmandu Bhaktapur: http://wikitravel.org/en/Bhaktapur Biratnagar: http://wikitravel.org/en/Biratnagar Birgunj: http://wikitravel.org/en/Birgunj Dharan: http://wikitravel.org/en/Dharan Namche Bazaar: http://wikitravel.org/en/Namche_Bazaar Nepalgunj: http://wikitravel.org/en/Nepalgunj Patan: http://wikitravel.org/en/Patan Pokhara: http://wikitravel.org/en/Pokhara * Nepal-related commons material http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Nepal&fulltext=Search * FOSS Nepal Community: FOSS Nepal Community is a team of volunteers who believe in the usage of Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). The primary objective of the community is to promote and diversify the usage of Free/Open Source Software in Nepal. http://www.fossnepal.org * OLPC Nepal: OLPC Nepal (One Laptop Per Child Nepal) is a non-profit organization. Our objective is to address Nepal's development challenge through it's root cause, Education. Our goal is to provide every child of Nepal with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves. We believe that Nepal's asset is the knowledge-based economy but the bitter truth is that, we are still below the threshold. We need an efficient and effective tool to leapfrog the gap. The adoption of the appropriate technology is the only way out. OLPC Nepal aims to provide the solution with "Mero Sanu Sathi", an inexpensive, durable, and highly power-efficient laptop as a learning tool, for each and every child of Nepal. http://www.olpcnepal.org/ * Telecenter movement in Nepal: Bringing Wi-Fi technology to create new opportunities in the Himalayan region of Nepal. We had started the Nepal Wireless Networking Project as a pilot project from a small and remote area of Nepal with the help of foreign supporters and volunteers. We did several testing in 2002 to find out if it is possible to connect the villages to the nearest ISP in Pokhara. The test was successful. In September 2003, we had connected five villages and expanded the network to two more villages later on. So far we have networked seven villages. The name of the villages are Nangi, Paudwar, Ghara, Tikot, Sikha, Ramche, Khibang and Ghorepani of Myagdi district, Nepal. The network is running despite some problems mainly the shortage of power and wireless devices. Now we have 13 villages connected in the network. http://www.nepalwireless.net/ * Digital Educational content in Nepal: sex shouts: Sixyadaan is the Open Courseware Project in Nepal. It is 1. Is a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners 2. Is a publication of Course materials & Researches in Nepal 3. Requires no registration to access the materials 4. Requires a free registration to contribute 5. Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity http://sixyadaan.org [Site not accessible as on Feb 13, 2008] Also: http://parvez.stumbleupon.com/tag/sixydaan-nepal-ocw/ * LTSP e-Library concept : Open Learning Exchange Nepal : In order to fulfill its mission, OLE Nepal is working in partnership with the government of Nepal to: * Develop high-quality free and open-source interactive digital learning materials that conform to Nepal's national curriculum. * Maintain a web-based repository of these resources. * Build the government's capacity to design, develop and maintain ICT-based materials. * Implement a plan to provide universal access to primary and secondary school level ICT-based teaching-learning materials by 2015. * Research and evaluate the effectiveness of different ICT based learning approaches. http://www.olenepal.org/ * E-village initiative [Link not located.] * United Mission to Nepal initiative to Migrate to Free and Open Source Software. [Link not yet found.] * digitalhimalaya.com: Books and publications available in Creative Commons, FDL, Open Content in Nepal. A project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. Conceived of by Professor Alan Macfarlane and Dr. Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available valuable ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based jointly at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and the Anthropology Department at Cornell University, the project began in December 2000. Three primary objectives: 1. To preserve in a digital medium archival anthropological materials from the Himalayan region that are quickly degenerating in their current forms, including films in various formats, still photographs, sound recordings, field notes, maps and rare journals 2. To make these resources available over broadband internet connections, coupled with an accurate search and retrieval system useful to contemporary researchers and students 3. To make these resources available on DVD to the descendants of the people from whom the materials were collected by making them both easily transportable and viewable in a digital medium. Five ethnographic collections representing a broad range of regions, ethnic groups, time periods, and themes were slated for digitisation in the first phase of the project, along with a set of maps of Nepal and important journals on Himalayan studies. http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/ * Open Knowledge Network: The Open Knowledge Network (OKN) is a project founded by OneWorld International. It is active in parts of Africa and South Asia as a human network, which collects, shares and disseminates local knowledge and is supported by flexible technical solutions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Knowledge_Network * Open Knowledge Network Project-Nepal has played a vital role in the creation, development and dissemination of local content. ENRD was one of the implementation partner in this project which was implemented in the Multi-stakeholder partnership (MSP) model. http://www.enrd.org/contentdev.php * Nepal on the Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&hybrid=&query=Nepal Journal of Nepal Medical Association ISSN: 00282715 EISSN: 1815672X Subject: Medicine (General) --- Public Health Publisher: Nepal Medical Association Country: Nepal Language: English Keywords: health, health care system, medical education Start year: 1999 http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&issn=00282715&genre=journal Kathmandu University Medical Journal ISSN: 18122027 EISSN: 48122078 Subject: Medicine (General) Publisher: Kathmandu University Country: Nepal Language: English Keywords: medical education Start year: 2003 http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&issn=18122027&genre=journal Nepal Journal of Neuroscience ISSN: 18131948 EISSN: 18131956 Subject: Neurology Publisher: Neuroscience Forum Country: Nepal Language: English Keywords: neuroscience Start year: 2004 http://www.neuroscienceforum.org.np/index.html Our Nature ISSN: 19912951 Subject: Biology --- Environmental Sciences Publisher: Nature Conservation and Health Care Council Country: Nepal Language: English Keywords: biological sciences, ecology, environmental sciences Start year: 2003 http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/ MUSIC, BLOGS AND COMMUNITY SITES of Nepali communities. * United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal: Mission: United We Blog! wants democracy and peace to be restored in Nepal as soon as possible. We accept articles related to Nepal from people all over the world. Email UWB: unitedweblog(at)gmail.com We are a group of like-minded journalists working on various media outlets in Kathmandu and other parts of Nepal. This is our forum to express things that we can't in our media because of various reasons like space and time constraints in traditional media. http://blog.com.np/ * MySansar.com In Nepali. "This is not a news site, it's a blog." Publishes national Nepali and political news. http://mysansar.com * Sajha: Sajha.com aims to be the internet destination for all Nepalese living in Nepal and abroad, and for anyone interested in Nepal - to provide a internet space where we take a little break from the monotony once in a while to indulge in gupp-supp to tickle our intellect, to talk about Nepal and the Nepalese, and to remind the fact that we are Nepalese no matter where we are and what we do. http://ww.sajha.com * Nepal on http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Localities covered include, * Nepal, Nepal * Patan, Nepal * Kathmandu, Nepal * Birgunj, Nepal * Bir??tnagar, Nepal * Bharatpur, Nepal * Taweche, Nepal * Dhar??n B??z??r, Nepal * Siddharthanagar, Nepal * Kathmandu, Nepal * Set?? Zone, Nepal * Sagarm??th?? Zone, Nepal * R??pt?? Zone, Nepal * N??r??yan?? Zone, Nepal * Mech?? Zone, Nepal * Mah??k??l?? Zone, Nepal * Lumbin?? Zone, Nepal * Kos?? Zone, Nepal * Karn??l?? Zone, Nepal Thanks Hempal for the pointers and more! ---FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 The Goa books blog: http://goabooks.wordpress.com Goa1556 (alt.publishing.goa): http://goa1556.goa-india.org # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]