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Guidance for safe, wise and secure use of digital tech by small organisations in Nepali

Following Prof. G. ‘Hari’ Harindranath’s recent research-practice visit to Nepal in January, we are delighted to share the Nepali version of our free guidance notes on the safe, wise and secure use of digital technologies for small, particularly civil society, organisations. This builds on our previous cyber-security related work, and is one of the outputs from our productive partnership with ACORAB. Its main sections are on:

  • What is of most importance to you? Plan to protect
  • Know the sorts of attack that you are likely to encounter
  • Your staff: highest risk, and first line of defence
  • Data Security and Management
  • Your Organisation’s Digital Systems
  • Your Website
  • Social Media
  • E-mails

The report concludes with six main recommendations for small civil society organisations:

Guidance for small civil society organisations on using digital tech safely, wisely and securely

During one of our research visits to South Africa in January 2024 it became abundantly clear that many small and poorly resourced civil society organisations have little experience of using digital tech safely, wisely and securely. Drawing on good practices across the world, as well as our subsequent experiences in and with colleagues from Brazil, Nepal and Mozambiaue, we have therefore produced a short (12 page) guide to help such organisations understand the risks they are at from the use of digital tech and how they can be mitigated. This contains useful tips, graphics that can be copied and reversioned into posters, as well as links to more detailed sourcers of information, and it is freely available in English under a Creative Commons CC BY SA license.

Please get in touch using our contact page should you have any comments on how this could be improved or to discuss developing versions in other languages or for other contexts, and do please share information about this resource through your own networks.

This forms part of the ICT4D Collective’s ongoing research-practice in the safe, wise and secure use of digital tech, further details of which are available here.