(सुस्वागतम) Welcome here...: What is Open Data-Have You Heard About It?

"Nowadays, We are becoming internet savvy. Most of us are dependent on the data such as the documents like DOCX, PDF, PPT, XSL, images in the extension of JPEG, PNG, audio, video and so on which are published openly and freely available for all of us. We took the advantages of those data in many ways like students, academician, the researchers used it for literature review and for citation. For the statisticians, economist, policymakers data are the main sources of fact-finding and formulating new strategies. All these examples show how important the data is. In this blog, here I will be sharing the ideas on "Open Data" on the basis of the "open data awareness program" organized by Kathford R&D's wing 'KATHFOSS' in the premise of Kathford International College on 2017-11-22. The resource persons for the event were Mr. Nikesh Balami, CEO, Mr.Shubham Ghimire, COO, Mr. Sagar Ghimire, CTO of an emerging organization -Open Knowledge Nepal.  The event was conducted within three sessions. Among them, Here is the summary of Session I: A. What is Open Data?"