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Omdena Partners with Asia Foundation in Nepal to Improve Media Representation of Women, Youth, and Marginalized Groups

June 13, 2023


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Omdena is proud to announce its partnership with the Asia Foundation in Nepal on a project aimed at improving the availability of credible information and diverse narratives within media that better represent women, youth, and marginalized (WYM) issues and perspectives. This initiative is part of USAID CSM M&E’s efforts to advance representation practices in media.

The program will analyze mainstream media, social media, and potentially Nepali radio content using a quantitative methodology. The goal is to measure the average rating of diversity in media content and representation of WYM using the OIND 3.1 indicator. The project will focus on two provinces in Nepal: Madhesh Province and Lumbini Province spanning six months Omdena will utilize AI modeling techniques such as natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms to develop language models for Nepali, classify WYM-related media content, and rate media content based on diversity and reliable representation. 

If interested to join this project, please sign up via the link below:

https://airtable.com/shrHlvSMXUjwBsCya

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About The Asia Foundation

The Asia Foundation is a nonprofit international development organization committed to improving lives across a dynamic and developing Asia. Informed by six decades of experience and deep local expertise, our work across the region addresses five overarching goals—strengthen governance, empower women, expand economic opportunity, increase environmental resilience, and promote international cooperation.

About Omdena

Omdena is a platform helping mission-driven organizations and startups build impactful AI solutions through global collaboration and empowering AI Engineers from all over the world to become changemakers. To date, over 20,000+ AI Engineers from 120+ countries have been part of Omdena, building impact-driven solutions for 220+ organizations. Omdena also has local chapters in 195+ locations across 80+ countries.

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