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सन्दर्भ सामग्री
📃 डिजिटल पूर्वाधार, सीप र सुशासन सुदृढीकरण
📃 बढ्दो साइबर अपराध, ठगी र ह्याकिङ
📃 राजनीतिमा देखिने साइबर मानहानी र दुर्व्यवहार
📡 यस अंकमा हामीले समेटेका छौँः
📃 सामाजिक सञ्जाल माथिको प्रतिबन्ध र डिजिटल लोकतन्त्र माथिको खतरा
📃 नेपालको जेन जेड आन्दोलनको गलत चित्रण
📣 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।
📃Strengthening Digital Infrastructure, Skills, and Governance
📃Rise of Cyberfraud, Hacking, and Online Scams
📃Cyber Defamation and Harassment in Politics
📡 In this edition, we cover:
📃Social Media Ban and Threat to Digital Democracy
📃Misrepresentation of Nepal’s Gen Z Protest
📣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.
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🤝 Learn through feminist digital pedagogy
🔁 Co-create iterative learning & research

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Integrating feminism, technology and internet right, gender and sexuality in Nepal.
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🍀We are inviting feminist women and queer youth using AI in their daily lives to participate in this inaugural cycle of our research and training series.
📣Join Body & Data for a 3day feminist learning lab followed by a 3 week-long reflective engagement exploring AI, bias, and digital justice. Together, we will learn how algorithms work, uncover their social impacts, and co-create pathways for ethical, inclusive, and empowering use of AI technologies.
🤖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?

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⚠️We note that restricting the analysis to the initial week omits subsequent long-term shifts in the narrative.

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Media Monitoring Report: GenZ Protest in Nepal | Body & Data
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📝Our study, which examines national and international news platforms during the crucial first week, argues that the protests were fundamentally misrepresented. This narrow focus diverted the protestors' core demands which was further complicated by the dissemination of misinformation.
Media Monitoring Report: GenZ Protest in Nepal | Body & Data
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🔔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.
We urge you to endorse and share within your networks. We stand in solidarity with all movements resisting censorship and fighting for an internet that is safe, just, accessible, equitable, open and free for all.

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Statement-Social Network Ban
bodyanddata.org Statement on the Government of Nepal’s Ban on Social Media Platforms On August 28, 2025, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of Nepal directed the Nepal Telec...
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Body & Data released a statement condemning the ban and urged the Nepali government to revoke it immediately. The organization called for the government to stop censoring digital spaces and instead consult with civil society, digital rights groups, and the platforms themselves.
⚠️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.
When laws are this vague, enforcement becomes selective, fines become crushing and citizens lose their right to criticise and hold power accountable. It’s time to read the bill, question it and understand what’s at stake.

Read the Policy Brief:
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Body & Data's Policy Brief.pdf
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Banning platforms is just the tip of the iceberg. The Social Network Bill stretches far deeper: it restricts anonymity, criminalises vague notions of “obscene,” “gruesome,” and “hate” content, “national interest” and “harmony.”
Body & Data's Policy Brief.pdf
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⚠️ 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.