Exploring the emerging impacts of open aid data and budget data in Nepal

Abstract

This study provides a baseline of information regarding the aid and budget data landscape in Nepal. It presents an understanding of interactions of key stakeholders working in the open data ecosystem, and documents Nepal’s governance context. The study focuses on three groups of stakeholders within the open data ecosystem: data providers, data intermediaries and data users, and reveals that there is a gap between open data efforts, and the information needs and practices of civil society and journalists. It is part of the larger project “From Data to Development: Exploring the Emerging Impact of Open Government Data in Developing Countries”.