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...
How Musk’s Twitter buyout may do more to cage the bird than to free it.
Written by Alisha M. "The bird is free," tweeted Elon Musk, a pithy celebratory response to his successful buyout of Twitter. Musk's main ambition for Twitter was to transform it into "an inclusive arena of free speech." However, it turns out that the self-described...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report (Oct to Dec 2022)
E-governance Election In numerous amount of news and media coverage was observed during the federal and parliamentary level election held on 20 November 2022. Media reports touched upon topics such as election’s code of conduct, candidates’ political campaign through...
Anonymous Comfort
Written by Safal Lama Every one of us felt uncomfortable and unhappy for being who we are at some point in our lives. It could be regarding our sexuality, Physical appearance, skin color, caste, culture, language, family background, or geographical structure....
Reconnecting with Community: Organizational Survey
To our dearest people, Thank you for being with us throughout our 2022 journey. We extend our gratitude for always supporting us in making the digital rights movement accessible, free and feminist in our ways. It is people like you who help us to guide our work and...
The Allocishet Vision in Schools: A Digital Perspective
Digital surveillance of students by schools, reprehensible in itself, also disproportionately harms queer, trans and gender non-conforming youth Written by Pras Introduction While schools have always been sites of surveillance; monitoring what...
Let’s Strive to Make Our Digital Platforms Accessible for All
Written by Jalasa Sapkota After the post pandemic period, our lives have revolved around two different worlds: one physical world, next virtual world. Our lives have become way simpler and more complex at the same time while navigating the world through...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report (July to September 2022)
Freedom of Expression The arrest of comedian Apoorwa Kshitiz Singh once again raised questions regarding freedom of speech; a right guaranteed by the Nepal Constitution. Singh was arbitrarily arrested on charges of attacking and defaming the Newa culture, practices...
मधेश में इन्टरनेट पहुँच, डिजिटल अधिकार आ गोपनीयता
Written by Shailee ChaudharyTranslated by Sweetie Chaurasiya बारा के सिम्रौनगढ नगरपालिका के वार्ड नम्बर ५ के वडा समिति से “अविवाहित महिला लोग के मोबाइल फोन प्रयोग में रोक लगावल आ महिला साथे लइकी लोग के इन्टरनेट के पहुँच सार्वजनिक नैतिकता वा सभ्य...
Quarterly Media Monitoring Report (April to June 2022)
Privacy and Data Privacy The government's imposition of embossed number plates sparked discourse regarding the relevancy of such digitalization initiatives from the government and beneficiaries' financial capacity to own such technology. The discourse was also centred...