A graduate from Columbia University, Kunda worked as a news reporter for the BBC at the UN Headquarters in New York and then as Asia-Pacific director of Inter Press Service from 1987 to 1995. He returned to Nepal in 1996 to head Panos Institute South Asia, and is currently editor of Nepali Times and co-publisher at Himalmedia in Kathmandu. He is also author of the book, Dateline Earth: Journalism As If The Planet Mattered. Kunda Dixit is committed to addressing the issue of digital divide globally and within countries including issues of ensuring localization of computers for the Internet, etc. and promoting the use of IT in spreading literacy in Nepal and countries in similar levels of development.