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Addressing Nepal's digital divide
Human rights may be one way to narrow the digital technology gap between Kathmandu and Kalikot
Covid-19 cancels region's gains in education
Photo: UNICEFSchool closures have led to an alarming loss of learning opportunities for children in South Asia despite efforts to promote remote…
Nepal’s class divide widens
Photo: UMA THAPA MAGARThird grader Sona Lama lives in the uplands of Rasuwa and has not been to school for more than a year. But since Nepal…
Lessons not learned from the pandemic
Nepal has squandered another opportunity to fix a defective education system
Learning during the pandemic in Nepal
(This article is based on a research project by Boyd Hayes, Nabila Farid, Riya Sirkhell, who are graduate students at the University of British…
Covid-19 aids Nepal’s net spread
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe number of Nepalis on the internet has increased dramatically during the pandemic, with high-speed mobile connectivity…
Digital divide exposes class divide in Nepal schools
Nepal’s education system was in crisis long before the pandemic hit. But with schools closed now for four straight months, remote learning has…
THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM
Source: SHARECAST INITIATIVE NEPALThere was a time until recently when we wrote editorials in this space about how the global digital divide was…
New news
Nepal Media Survey 2019When enumerators from Sharecast Initiative Nepal fanned out across the country in January, they asked more than 4,100…