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Body & Data
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We advocate, campaign & adopt suitable strategies to ensure accessible, just & safe digital space for marginalized groups

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Share your opinions and lived experiences in digital spaces. Our collective struggles and victories create powerful knowledge.
Our blogs invite those pushed to the margins to center themselves in a digital world—start writing today! ✏️
December 4, 2025 at 6:25 AM
✨On the International Day of Person with Disabilities, we would like to share a snippet from our research "Beyond Access" where one of the participants shares their experience as a home based disability activist.
December 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Reflecting on our progress, aligning goals, and planning for the next quarter with care. Grateful for collective insights and shared commitment to digital rights. Excited to turn these plans into meaningful action✨
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Call for Proposals: From Movement to Election - Pathways to Digital Justice
📅 Application Deadline: December 3, 2025
Apply now!
📄 Form Link: files.bodyanddata.org/nextcloud/in...
📝 Concept Note: drive.google.com/file/d/1TqEa...
November 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📣On the month of October 2025 we reviewed news focusing on Nepal’s digital landscape. The news was centered around elections, identity politics, misinformation, and cyber risks collided.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📣अक्टोबर २०२५ मा हामीले निर्वाचन, पहिचान, राजनीति, भ्रामक सूचना र साइबर जोखिमसँग सम्बन्धित नेपालका डिजिटल समाचारहरूको समीक्षा गर्‍यौँ।
📡यस संस्करणमा समेटिएका विषयहरू:
📃निर्वाचन र डिजिटल पूर्वाधार
📃राज्यको आदिवासी पहिचानप्रतिको राज्यको दृष्टिकोण र भ्रामक सूचना
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Body & Data organised a workshop entitled "Algorithms & AI: Feminist Learning Lab" from November 7-9, 2025, to further feminist perspectives and feminist use of artificial intelligence. We are very grateful for the unmatched enthusiasm, time, and effort of our participants!
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
📣 सेप्टेम्बर २०२५ मा नेपालको डिजिटल लोकतन्त्र सेन्सरशिप, गलत सूचना, र साइबर अपराधजस्ता विषयहरू परिक्षणमा परेको थियो। हाम्रो मासिक मिडिया मोनिटरिङमा, बढ्दो सामाजिक र राजनीतिक तनावको सन्दर्भमा डिजिटल अधिकार, सुरक्षा र सुशासनबीचको द्वन्द्व बढ्दै गएको देखियो।
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
📣In September 2025, Nepal's digital democracy was tested by issues of censorship, misinformation, and cybercrime. In our monthly media monitoring, we saw rise in friction among digital rights, security, and governance in the context of escalating social and political tensions.
October 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🤖How can we engage with Artificial Intelligence through a feminist lens? How do algorithms shape our digital realities- and how can we reclaim agency within them?

Link: files.bodyanddata.org/nextcloud/in...
October 17, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🔔Body & Data has conducted a media monitoring and analysis of the initial coverage of the September 2025 Nepal 'Gen-Z Protest,' a significant youth-led movement against corruption and nepotism.
October 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
⚠️Nepal's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has banned 26 social media platforms, including Facebook, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Discord, for failing to register under the country's Directives for Managing the Use of Social Networks, 2023.
September 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
⚠️ Ministry of Information, Communication, and Technology of Nepal directed ban on all online platforms that failed to register under Directives for Managing the Use of Social Networks, which came into effect today, on September 5, 2025.
September 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🚀 Our new report, "Nepal's Biometric Present: Governance, Accessibility, and Accountability" is out!

🤖Nepal’s National ID (NID) project, introduced in 2018, promised to create a unified digital identity for all citizens through biometric enrollment.
September 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📣We are excited to share that Dovan Rai from the Body & Data team recently appeared on the Sushant Pradhan Podcast 🎙️ to discuss the future of AI in Nepal. She explores Nepal's ongoing digital revolution 💻, the socio-technological evolution of AI, AI ethics and machine learning bias.
August 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🌐The Social Network Bill, 2081 has been open to suggestions- take charge and protect your digital and social futures!
August 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📣 जुलाई २०२५ मा नेपालको डिजिटल परिदृश्य गम्भीर निगरानीमा रह्यो, किनभने गोपनीयता उल्लङ्घन, अनलाइन सेन्सरशिप, प्रविधि-मार्फत हुने उत्पीडन, डिजिटल ठगी, र भ्रामक सूचना जस्ता चुनौतीहरूले सतही रूपमा मात्र नभई तत्कालिक समस्या उठाए। यस महिनाको मिडिया अनुगमनले देखाउँछ कि प्रविधिले समुदायलाई सशक्त पनि बनाउँछ र उजागर पनि गर्छ, जसले कानूनी सुरक्षा, डिजिटल आचारसंहिता, र जवाफदेहितामा रहेका खाडलहरू प्रस्ट्याउँछ।
August 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📣July 2025 saw Nepal’s digital landscape under intense scrutiny, as privacy breaches, online censorship, technology-facilitated harassment, digital scams, and misinformation brought urgent challenges to the forefront.
August 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
⚖️What are the potential risks of the Social Network Bill, 2025? 😨 As one respondent in our survey noted, the bill's lack of clarity "allows the government to penalise anyone, which is dangerous."
August 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Firefly, in her blog, shares the painful realization that what she faced wasn’t just bullying but digital violence and mental torment.
Her story calls on us to recognize how deeply online harm can affect lives.

Read the full article: bodyanddata.org/not-just-a-r...
August 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
✨Join us as in our gangan advocacy to transform the Social Network Bill!

🔗Nepali Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🔗English Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
On July 17 and 18, Body & Data organized a Bill-a-thon on the Social Network Bill 2081. This two-day event brought together diverse stakeholders with the intention of enhancing public participation in this critical policy-making process.
August 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Meet the Writer, Firefly
Through her blog, Firefly opens up about navigating online abuse and reclaiming digital spaces. Her voice sheds light on the need for an internet that is inclusive, safe, and empowering especially for women often targeted online.

🔗 Read more: bodyanddata.org/not-just-a-r...
August 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Advocate for changes to the Social Network Bill through any medium– research, art (spoken word, poetry, installations, performance art, etc.), and more! Share your voices and help us reimagine digital governance in Nepal.
July 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"सामाजिक सञ्जाल विधेयक, २०८१" को रुपान्तरण गर्नका लागि अनुसन्धान, अध्ययन, कला, कविता आदि इत्यादि जस्ता विभिन्न माध्यममार्फत सहभागी हुनुहोस् । यस कार्यक्रमको लक्ष्य निगरानीमा आधारित, अत्यधिक अपराधीकरण गर्ने र दमनकारी डिजिटल शासन भन्दा फरक समानता तथा आम जनता र विषेश गरी सिमान्तकृत समुदायहरुको ज्ञान र अनुभवमा आधारित कानुनको लागि पैरवी गर्नु हो।
July 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM