A public-action initiative · est. 2026

AI Sovereignty by Practice.

अभ्यासद्वारा एआई सार्वभौमिकता।

A public-action initiative building Nepal's capability to use, govern, run, adapt, evaluate, and improve AI — across governance, sovereignty, models, inference, edge, and institutional readiness.

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Audiences served
§ 01 — The thesis
Nepal should not only consume AI tools. Nepal should build the practical ability to understand, govern, run, adapt, evaluate, and improve AI systems for its own institutions, languages, communities, and development priorities.
Sovereignty ≠ isolation. Sovereignty = capability + optionality.
§ 02 — Strategic pillars

Six pillars of practical AI capability.

01 / Governance

Make AI governance real inside institutional workflows.

Policy-to-practice, risk classification, procurement, human-in-the-loop, disclosure, audit, incident response, institutional readiness.

शासन
02 / Sovereignty

Decide AI dependency, compute, and continuity deliberately.

GPU/TPU awareness, compute strategy, local inference, open models, data residency, vendor dependency, strategic AI capability.

सार्वभौमिकता
03 / Models

Evaluate and adapt models for Nepal-relevant tasks.

Open model evaluation, Nepali language testing, local-context benchmarks, RAG vs fine-tuning decisions, domain model improvement.

मोडेल
04 / Inference

Where AI runs is a governance and strategy decision.

Public APIs, private APIs, hosted open models, local GPU, on-premise, edge — chosen for cost, latency, privacy, and continuity.

अनुमान
05 / Edge

Students, schools, communities as AI participants.

On-device AI, volunteer model evaluation, school and college nodes, community data validation, federated learning pilots, rural participation.

किनारा
06 / Capability

People, institutions, workflows, habits.

AI literacy, executive education, teacher and journalist enablement, developer upskilling, contributor tracks, institutional workshops.

क्षमता

From AI adoption to AI readiness.

Practical AI Nepal is a working space — for testing models, educating communities, convening institutions, diagnosing real AI problems, supporting contributors, and creating pathways to real implementation.

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