Suman Siwakoti

Though the bill has envisaged establishing a dedicated national cyber security center, doubt remains whether the center will appoint the right person in the right place, or will the center be a mere “center” for political appointment and a means to recruit “my person” as it remains in another existi...

The buzz about the E-commerce Bill is increasing day by day since the bill was tabled in parliament for deliberation. Though the buzz started back in 2021, the bill remained stagnant due to political changes in Nepal.

With the government amending the National Broadcasting Regulation 1995 recently, a key question has arisen - will foreign companies providing broadcasting services including OTT and VOD through the internet comply with the Regulation?

With a weak data privacy regime, Nepal is among the world’s least regulated data regimes putting forward an elevated obligation toward the regulator to rigorously work on drafting a regulation to regulate data privacy in Nepal.