We are a research and teaching cooperative working globally from Nepal. We help people create knowledge to tell more authentic stories.
Engage complexity to disrupt the status quo
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This one-year Higher Diploma program is designed to empower you with the skills most important to the new knowledge economy: writing, research, and critical thinking. You'll be challenged to push yourself in a rigorous and supportive environment, and you'll leave with a new capacity to make change.
This hands-on workshop will help you transform your expertise into impact.
This course will help you rediscover the joy of wondering.
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This course focuses on the R statistical programming language to help you see new and important stories in your data.
Learn to listen and encounter new worlds
Nepal
आमा म कीर्तिपूर आउँदै छु भन्ने थाहा पाउँदा आफ्नो खाटसँगैको झ्यालबाट आँखा थाके पनि निरन्तर मलाई कुरेर बस्नु हुन्छ। झ्यालबाट बाहिर हेरेर बस्नु, सायद आमालाई बच्चाबच्ची आउने आशाको परखाई हो। यो कार्य आशा बाट सुरु भए तापनि हजुरबुबा बित्नु भए यता यो झ्याल उहाँको दिन कटाउने दौतरी बनेको छ।
When I asked if he'd prefer to connect on other socials than reddit he said, “Will fake account work? I will create a dummy one, let’s not share real ID okay? Sorry just trying to be little safe side, I hope you didn’t mind.”
I climbed the stairs and entered the shop as a person was crouching and inspecting coffee beans. When he realized I had entered, he stood up and welcomed me, asking how he could help.
Hari (12 years old, never attended school) mentioned in one of our conversations that his father was very proud the day he handed him his first earning. “I will never forget how proud Baba looked when he took that money and he said I have now become a man. That was the best day of my life.”
This morning, she saw her husband crouched near the alcohol room. His scars around the knees were healing. Cindera was ashamed of what she did, but still it didn’t change the way she felt about him. She had really wished if he had rather died.
It was 2 pm when his monitor rang an alarm. The plateau of his heart line was falling flat quickly, without a pause or regard for the efforts that had been made till then. His family had consented to a DNR, Do Not Resuscitate, beforehand and did not allow us to revive him.
Weave connections of care and kinship everywhere
Imagine better futures
The Open Institute for Social Science is a member-driven academic community. We believe that high-quality social research will be the substance of a more innovative, more compassionate, and more equitable world. To get there, we are searching for new and better ways to practice our craft.
The Open Institute for Social Science is an academic cooperative. We own no property, we generate no profits, and we have no employees. Very little of our work is centrally planned. Instead, our projects are driven by the passions of our membership, who coordinate and lead their social scientific efforts on our common platform.
The Open Institute for Social Science is an independent center of academic excellence, committed without compromise to local and international best practices. Though we aspire to be a resource to the worlds of policy and development, we are financially autonomous and thus free to be a very different kind of voice.
