The Zero-Cost Infrastructure for the Nepali AI Ecosystem

Nepal's policymakers keep discussing artificial intelligence as a strategy problem: which ministry should own it, which foreign partner should fund it, which pilot project should launch first. This framing misses the actual constraint. The problem is not strategy. It is a raw material. Before any AI system can read, summarize, or reason about Nepal's public documents, those documents must be usable text. Right now, most of them do not.