LIRNEasia CEO Helani Galpaya speaks at World Press Freedom Day 2025 – South Asia Regional Conference
LIRNEasia CEO Helani Galpaya was a featured speaker at the World Press Freedom Day 2025 South Asia Regional Conference, held on May 4, 2025, in Nepal. Joining the event virtually, she contributed to the opening policy dialogue – press freedom in the AI era: a regional lens wide-ranging discussion which explored how AI intersects with democratic values, legal frameworks, and freedom of expression in South Asia.
LIRNEasia shares regional lessons on data governance at SDPI forum in Pakistan
Aslam Hayat (Senior Policy Fellow LIRNEasia, Country Researcher for Pakistan), and Pranesh Prakash (Policy Fellow LIRNEasia, Co-Principal Investigator), drew on research carried out under LIRNEasia’s ‘Harnessing Data for Democratic Development in South and Southeast Asia’ project to discuss aspects of data governance in Pakistan and other countries. This was part of a forum hosted by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Pakistan, under the theme, “Public-Private Dialogue (PPD) on Data Governance in Pakistan.
LIRNEasia presents their work on AI-driven poverty mapping at a premier AI conference
Pinpointing where poverty is most severe and tracking its changes over time is crucial for helping communities effectively. However, traditional benchmarks like household surveys and national censuses often fall short—they’re expensive, slow, and infrequent.
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sajjadur rahman
It’s a great greeting. Wish you and your team a very good new year full of work loads.
Gamini Sarath Godakanda
Best wishes and happy new year to you, Sujatha and Indi. May this coming year bring yous life’s best.Thank you from the bottoms of our hearts for all of you.
Gamini Sarath Godakanda
Sunethra Siriwardena
Wish you, Sujata and the Lirneasia group a great New Year.
Ramchandra Bhatta
Best wishes to Mr. Rohan sir & whole Lirneasia team. Happy New Year 2012.
Muhammad Yousaf
Happy new year to all. May this year bring more hapiness and success to all of us. I miss the excellent time spent in CPR south 6 in Xian.