An open project
Built to
be copied.
Everything about this project will be published openly. The point is that it is reproducible.
The invitation
This is not a story about one person doing something remarkable.
It is a documentation project.
Every cost, every mistake, every method will be published openly.
The point is that it is reproducible.
What will be published
Every step, openly.
Costs
What it actually costs to travel across Nepal, buy equipment, and set up a classroom lab. No approximations.
Methods
How to approach a remote school, how to conduct an interview, how to earn trust slowly. The mistakes included.
Hardware research
What second-hand computers and repurposed phones are available across Nepal, at what cost, and whether they hold up as shared lab machines.
Software tools
Which free AI tools — ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek — were used, how they were introduced, and what a child could actually do with each one.
Curriculum
Every exercise, every prompt, every lesson — written down so a teacher with no AI background can run it.
Failures
What did not work. This is the most valuable part. Published without softening.
Who this is for
Anyone who wants to try this.
The audience for this documentation is not governments or funders. It is individuals — a teacher in Jumla, a software engineer in Kathmandu, a volunteer in a community school anywhere in the world — who see a gap and want to do something practical about it.
The AI tools are free — ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek. The hardware is second-hand: used laptops from city resellers, old phones repurposed as desktops. The methods, costs, and hardware findings will all be here. The only thing required is the will to begin.
Second-hand hardware. Free tools.
Children who are free to be curious.
How to contribute
The laptop
in your drawer.
When this project reaches the point of setting up labs, the ask will not be money. It will be hardware.
A laptop you replaced two years ago. A phone sitting in a drawer because you upgraded. Devices that still work, that you no longer need, that could be a child's first computer in a community school in Humla or Dolpa.
Donating a device is a lower-friction ask than donating money — and a more traceable one. Every device that enters this project will be documented: which school it went to, what it is used for, what a student did with it. The person who donated it will be able to follow that thread.
This mechanism is not live yet. It comes after Phase 1 — after the fieldwork establishes which communities are ready and what hardware actually works. This page will be updated when that changes.
Follow the project
The long way
is the right way.
The best way to follow is by email. Write when something here resonates — or when you have experience in Nepali education and want to share it. Those notes are what this project learns from.
No newsletter. No algorithm. Just email, both ways.