Open Nepal Community
Manifesto
Preamble
The member organizations/individual,
Affirming the belief in promoting fairness, openness, transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement through open data practices in Nepal,
Recognizing that Open Nepal has served as a knowledge hub and learning-sharing platform for organizations and individuals involved in data production, sharing, and development,
Acknowledging the need to establish a collaborative framework for community members to work together to revitalize past open data initiatives and introduce new approaches for collaboration,
Understanding the urgent need to activate and expand the initiatives started by Open Data by fostering collaboration among member organizations in the Open Nepal Community,
Have come together to form a voluntary community of practice of Open Nepal.
We Stand
For a transparent, data-driven, and better Nepal.
Our Guiding Principles
- We believe in the principle of equality and non-discrimination;
- We believe in fairness,
- We believe in open, accountable and democratic institutions,
- We believe in principles of social justice and inclusiveness,
- We believe in principles of human rights.
We will work
- to lead initiatives relating to openness of public sectors of Nepal;
- to create, curate, and share knowledge and experiences through the relevant online as well as offline platforms;
- to create the platform for a repository of open data;
- to work closely with the government to introduce enabling policies and laws in favor of open government.
We Operate
- being based on cooperation between its members;
- by forming relevant working committees to carry out functions as specified;
- by operating secretariat among member organizations on a rotational basis;
- by adopting principles of transparency and accountability.