capacity building
Body & Data recognizes the need for capacity building of the communities we work with – women, queer folks, women with disability, activists, tech persons, activists, and ally organizations. For this, we conduct digital security training workshops and creating safe space for the communities through digital storytelling workshops.
ALGORITHMS & AI: FEMINIST LEARNING LAB
Algorithms & AI is a Feminist Learning Lab by Body & Data as a response to the complex and extractive nature of artificial intelligence. Rooted in feminist pedagogy, the workshop is designed to teach the emerging AI technology while learning how AI is being used and navigated by women and queer individuals.
ALGORITHMS & ELECTIONS: CO-LEARNING & SCENARIO MAPPING
Algorithm and Elections: Co-learning and Scenario Mapping is a series of discussions with journalists, women leaders and young activists to underscore intersectional digital justice in the current socio-political scenario and identifyingthe ways to intervene collectively. In the session, we discuss how algorithmic systems and platform governance structures may directly and indirectly affect these communities along with other marginalized communities in the electoral context.
Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF)
The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) is a regional platform for dialogue, collaboration, and exchange on Internet governance. Body & Data participated in the APrIGF 2025 where we held a workshop called “Which animal are you?” This session on online privacy and safety showed that losing trust often starts with small things.
CHIYA CHARCHA
‘Chiya Charcha’ is a collective feminist conversation hosted by Body & Data, bringing together individuals working in multiple spheres with the aim of cross-movement strengthening. In monthly conversations, we come together from different backgrounds to build relationships, share and learn from one another. We share experiences and expertise in conversations around feminist philanthropy, organising and activism, intersectionality and digital rights.
ETHICAL AND RESPONSIBLE AI GUIDELINES
Ethical and Responsible AI Guidelines is a workshop in partnership with students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute where Body & Data provided feminist resources and research mentorship to students from WPI to conduct a study examining the use of generative AI in educational contexts among the bachelor’s level students in Nepal. This collaboration also resulted in a participatory workshop where students collectively drafted a roadmap for ethical AI.
LEARNING FRIDAYS
At Body & Data, we recognise that our external advocacy is only as strong as our internal culture of care. Chiya Charcha is a dedicated space for the team to deconstruct the technical, political, and social complexities of our work and build a strong system of care. By investing in ourselves, we are building a resilient ecosystem capable of responding to emerging threats with grace, intersectional clarity, and solidarity with each other.
MOVEMENT TO ELECTION
Movement to Elections (M2E) is a project by Body & Data after the movement of September 8-9. This project aims to safeguard pathways to digital justice, ensuring that digital spaces remain safe, accessible, and empowering as transition from movement to election happens countrywide. This project invites project applications that explore this critical moment—from movement to
election—at the intersection of political and social transformation and digital justice.
FEMINIST TECH EXCHANGE: DIGITAL SECURITY WORKSHOP
Feminist Tech Exchange: Digital security workshops are spaces created to have conversations on digital rights through the lens of gender and sexuality. Furthermore, we do hands-on training on safer digital tools, tips, and strategies. We work with individual activists, women, queer folks, and interested individuals as well as organizations and groups working across social justice issues.
DIGITAL STORYTELLING WORKSHOP
Through Digital Storytelling Workshops, we co-create spaces for women, queer folks, and marginalized communities to choose a story of our lives that we have found influential, and be able to create digital documentation of that story. Our key value behind the digital storytelling workshops is to increase the visibility of women and queer folks through their stories and put forward their multiple realities. Find some of the stories produced by our participants here.
testimonials from our workshops
Digital Rights Concerns Discussion from Feminist Tech Exchange, 2023
Body & Data organized Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX), 2023 with young people, human rights defenders and activists, digital enthusiast on June 2023, which fostered extensive discussions on the digital rights. The workshop was the gathering of diverse range...
Digital Security Workshop with Prayatna Nepal
In early 2023, we had a workshop with Prayatna Nepal about digital rights, organization security and digital security tools. Prayatna Nepal is an organization established to works for visually impaired women and girls. The organization works top empower visually...
Digital Rights Concerns Discussion from Feminist Tech Exchange- Gandaki
The Feminist Tech Exchange workshop held by Body and Data in Gandaki Province brought together a diverse group of participants from Gandaki Province for the Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX); Digital Security Workshop. Here, we are presenting the digital rights concerns in...
Feminist Tech Exchange Madhesh: Experience in the Internet
Working with women, queer persons and other marginalized communities from Madhesh from Feminist Tech Exchange helped us to understand, contextualize and broaden conversation around digital rights and digital presence. We had conversation with four participants from...