Outside

Registration for the first-ever Outside studio and Ai4Growth hackathon is now open!

In this part-virtual, part-in-person event, participants have one month to create a software or web application that uses AI to address one of four pressing issues in Nepal: Cultural preservation, online threats to privacy & safety, education for people with disabilities, and public transportation accessibility.

We’re looking for Nepal-based coders, developers, and others who know how to build workable open-source software or web applications using AI and want to use those skills to create a positive impact.

Registration opens today, June 5. For more details and to register, visit this link: https://lnkd.in/eBwvyiu7

Outside had two reasons to celebrate in April.

Not only does April mark the start of the Nepali new year – welcome to 2081! – it’s also Outside’s five-year anniversary.

Outside’s three founders, Atulya, Vincent, and Sujan, wanted to create a new model for a design and tech studio – one that prioritizes the impact its clients have, the community in which it operates, the people it employs, and the future we’re all working toward.

We’re proud of the progress we’ve made toward those goals in the last five years alongside like-minded engineers, creatives, and agency partners.

It’s fitting that our anniversary aligns with the Nepali new year because Nepal is integral to our mission. Our goal is to invest in Kathmandu, not just economically or as an employer, but by taking the time to learn about and support local initiatives and by creating spaces where people in the local tech scene can share ideas and resources.

We’re excited to still be creating from this part of the world. We want to see other values-driven Nepali companies thrive.

As we look ahead to the next five years, we’re thinking of ways we can continue evolving alongside the city and country so many of us call home.

Our very first Inside Outside open house was a success!

Thank you to everyone who showed up last week to learn about Outside, hear how we use Shopify, and meet our team.

Stay tuned for the next one.

We won an Anthem Award!

The new year is off to a strong start for Outside. We won silver at The Anthem Awards–a global social impact recognition–in the Health, Awareness & Media category for the work we did with the s*xual and menstrual wellness platform, Mauj.

Mauj is a platform for Arab women, by Arab women, and was the first site we ever built in Arabic as well as English. This is a worthy recognition for the Outside team members who worked hard on the project. It’s more importantly a boost for Mauj, bringing more attention and support to a platform that’s sharing science-backed information about women’s bodies and normalizing important conversations about s*x and consent.

Celebrate with us by checking out the platform that garnered the recognition at https://www.mauj.me/.