A free AI literacy programme
A patient, plainly-written course in artificial intelligence — written for Nepal, free for every learner in Nepal and beyond. No prior maths. No programming required to begin.
Chapter 1 · 18 min
Ask ten people in Kathmandu what artificial intelligence is and you will get ten different answers. This course is for the tenth person — the one who wants to know, plainly and without hype, what this thing actually is.
AI is pattern-matching, at scale, on data. Everything else is detail.
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What is AI, really?
The curriculum
Start with Learning AI to understand the field, Building AI when you're ready to make, and AI for Professionals when you need role-specific recipes for your day-to-day work.
Understand what AI is, how it works, and where it fails.
Role-specific playbooks for the work you actually do.
Move from understanding to making real systems.
Mini courses
Focused courses that go deep on a single, useful skill. Chapters, sections, and a certificate — same as the tracks, without the framing of a full programme.
A structured five-level path from the CLI to enterprise deployment.
The craft of writing prompts that get useful work out of a language model.
Design the loop that runs your prompts — not just the prompt itself.
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Focused on skills developers, students, and professionals can put to work the same day they learn them.
Browse all mini courses →For teams
A one-hour intro or a full-day workshop for your team — framed entirely in Nepali examples. Designed for banks, NGOs, colleges, and startups.
Our approach
We teach the way a patient teacher would — if a concept needs three pages it gets three pages, if it needs one sentence it gets one sentence. Every example is drawn from a system that exists, or could exist, in Nepal.
Read the first chapter →Abstract ideas are made concrete with examples from the payments, mobility, and language tech you use every day.
Considered typography for long stretches of reading. As legible on a Nokia as on a desk.
Small graded questions built by the author to test whether the idea actually landed.
Khalti, Pathao, paddy, monsoon — examples from places you already know intimately.
Why this exists
ailiteracynepal.com is a free series of online courses built to help anyone in Nepal learn what AI is, what it can and can't do, and how it's made. We combine patient theory with practical exercises — drawn from systems you already use, like Khalti, Pathao, and Devanagari OCR — and you can move through it at your own pace.
Are you wondering how AI might affect your work or your life?
Do you want to learn what AI really means — and how it's actually built?
Do you want to understand how AI will shape Nepal in the coming years?
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Our commitments
Not marketing lines. These four commitments shape what we write, what we keep free, and how we measure our own work.
Make AI legible to the Nepali public, in both Nepali and English — so that decisions about AI in Nepal are made by Nepalis who understand the technology, not made for us by those who do not understand the country, the culture, and the societal terms.
A thousand Nepalis who can read an AI paper, recognise a biased model, and ask the right questions of a government or corporate AI deployment will do more for Nepal than another foreign-built app dropped into the local market.
No paywall, no certificate gating. Public infrastructure for public understanding.
For corporate and hands-on training in future phases, we may introduce minimal fees to cover basic infrastructure.
A careful, consistent glossary of terms in Devanagari, so that future Nepali writing, teaching, and policy on AI has a shared foundation.
Voices
"The first time AI has been explained to me without jargon. The Khalti example finally made it click."
Sajana K.C.
Student, Kathmandu University
"A genuinely useful resource for my classroom. The Nepali framing makes it easier for students to engage."
Sujan Pandey
Assistant Professor
"I use these systems daily at work — this finally helped me understand what's actually happening under the hood."
Aarti Rai
Product Manager, Pathao
Questions
The questions we hear most often — straight answers, no marketing.