Pernillan and Pudo with hackers in Nepal

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Last week, lot of events were happening on support to develop the open, transparency and accountability Nepal. World Bank had directly involved to organize Open Data Literacy Bootcamp and hackathon where the international organization, civic institution like Open Institute, Open AID Partnership, Development Gateway participated to make it better. Open Nepal has launched at the same time. People from the different corners from United Stated to East Africa, from different leading organization World Bank to Open Institute stayed in Nepal and spread the knowledge what they sounds. At the time, We(Nepali Hackers) invited them to our hackers space. It was not like on plan or practice, we just asked one of them, Friedrich (@pudo) agreed. and we spread this news to some of our developer mailing list. As the result, we made 25 hackers in same place.

Lets go to the point, How was the program, we started by introducing our k_(hacker’s Space) http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=K, story behind how we came with the idea of such kind of space and how it differs in Nepal, what kind of FOSS projects we are intended to buildup. And then the ball was in their court, so pudo started telling from how he started his career, how he made interest in civic coding and attached with project of open spending and open AID. He added how the idea of OKFN in German came with and how they spread some idea all over the europe. Actually Friedrich came from Berlin, German. There was the another person with him, Pernilla Nasfors(@pernillan), a Swedish girl work in open AID Partnership in World Bank Institute inWashington DC. She share the journey up to the Open AID Partnership, She worked on open source TTS/IVR for long time. Open AID partnership works forcollaboration between different organization with goal of finding the AID flow, she said that they are in conversation with Nepal Government to make the AID data open. Nepal Government is also going to implement AID Management platform in Nepal, all aid datacan easily managed in system so anybody can easily access those information.

World Bank and different Donors are pushing from up side but the people should be aware with Right to Information. She suggest the nepali civil organizations should work to empower general people to ask for their right to information.

In discussion, those guys suggest us different ideas, so how can the hacker and civic organizations move in more like sustainable way and in more goal oriented way. Friedrich suggest 3 things to nepali hackers:

First idea was work on the general interest like make the portal for making all public interested information (authority, aid and information) more similar like whatdotheyknow.com. So this will create the chances to get in touch with public.

Second idea was in getting the government tender, they said they have seen lot of tenders from government, so nepali hacker should try to get those tender.

Third thing was to make always good relation with media, so media can be good partners for the hackers group who are working in social issues.

Pernilla added the one of the concentration and interest of foreign AID and Donors is know where is their money, in Nepal, Donors don’t know where there money goes, they just give that money to line ministers, where line minister spread that money to different regional and district authority but it can’t sure weather those money reached to the targeted people.

The participants/Nepali Hackers shared what they build up https://github.com/foss-npand also the problem they faced while working, they showed what they have already build on. We talked about Hacks and Hackers chapter in Nepal to strengthen these hacking activities.

Lastly, one hacker’s team showed the project called Presentation 2.O . It was amazing that Friedrich and Pernialla took that projects interestingly.https://github.com/deepsadhi/Presentation2.O ……

Oh!! How I forgot, Those guys offered us drinks, wow… it was really fun, we went to the top of Civil Mall @ food court, we stayed there, played a game in mobile, discussed….

Anyway we learned lot from those guys, and now we seems more confident and more clear on what we are doing.

Editathon in Girls in ICT Day 2013

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On the auspicious occasion of International Girls in ICT Day, Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal and Wikimedia Nepal organized wiki editathon for girls in Sumway International Business School on 25th April 2013, 25 girls were participated and did some wiki edit things. To help inspire girls to adopt technology in their career and create a global environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to consider careers in the growing field of ICT, International Girls’ in ICT Day is an initiative backed by International TeleCommunitcation Union (ITU) Member States in Plenipotentiary Resolution 70 (Guadalajara, 2010). International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated on the 4th Thursday in April every year. First time it was celeberated in 2010.
Saroj Dhakal from Wikimedia Nepal started program with an introduction of wikimedia nepal, wikipedia, global perspective and local status. Krish Dulal, top contributer on Nepali Wikipedia, shared what make him motivated to doing so, Shrijana and Naviya from Wikiwomen Initiative of Nepal presented about the wikiwomen and how this works and finally Prakash Neupane from Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal presented the story of Kat Barybrooke how open data make her smile and explained what is open knowledge foundation network, open data, open defination, projects and the way for engaging. Prakash also explained the idea behind the Girls In ICT Day, and trying to motivate them to make the career in the global trends of ICT.
After these presentation, the work started, girls with machine started to register for new accounts, oops, the IP restricted only for 6 new accounts and rest had done through guest session. They simply started with what they want to read, if it was there then started to edit and if not then started to make new one… few have successfully make some new articles and few edit existing one. We saw an excitement in their face, seems they were happy to make this and commitment to doing this in coming days too.
The event was conducted for 3.5 hours . In these hours, the girls who were not ever heard about open data and open content are convinced to these term and ready for contribute. So this is the good initiation and experience to enroll girls in ict, and this movement will be continue….

नीमो : न्यूज़ मोजिल्ला

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नीमो न्यूज़ मोजिल्ला को संक्षिप्त रूप हो ।यो परियोजनाको लक्ष्य मोजिल्ला र अन्य खुला श्रोतको नजिकरहेको गतिविधिहरुको सचेतना बढाउनु हो ।
शैक्षिक लेखहरूको एउटा डेटाबेस सृजना गर्ने र तीनीहरुलाई योगदान दिएका लेखहरुको रुपमा विश्वभरीका स्थानीय प्रकाशनमा पठाउने, हामी मोजिल्ला, यसको उत्पाद र खुला श्रोत सफ्टवेरका फाइदाको बारेमा प्रयोगकर्ताहरुलाई शिक्षित गराउने आशा गर्दछौ ।

किन यो परियोजना र यसको लक्ष्य
एउटा उल्लेखनीय जनसंख्या अझै पनि रुचि, अनुराग र जानकारीको लागि समाचार पत्र र अन्य किसिमको प्रिन्ट मिडियामा निर्भर छन् ।त्यसैले योगदान लेखको माध्यमवाट उनीहरुसंग पुग्ने भन्दा अरु सजिलो केहि हुन सक्दैन ।
विश्वको अधिकांश भागमा, अंग्रेजीमा वितरण गरिएको समाचार, महत्वपर्ण जनसंख्या जो पूर्ण रुपमा आफ्नो जन्मजात/स्थानीय भाषामा निर्भर हुन्छन सम्म पुग्न असफल भएको हुन्छ । त्यसैले हाम्रो मुख्य प्रयास भनेको यो भाषा बाधा बन्धनलाइ तोड्नु तथा मोजिल्लाको संदेशलाइ स्थान र भाषा भन्दा बाहिर भएर मानिसकहाँ पुराउनु हो ।
मोजिल्ला जनहितको लागि वेब को भविष्य बनाउनु बारेमा हो। नियमित समाचार पत्रको लेखहरुको माध्यमले, वेबलाइ उत्तम स्थान बनाउन मानिसहरु बीच सचेत ल्याउने हामीले प्रयास गर्छौ ।हामी यी कामहरु नया मानिसहरुसंग – बिद्यार्थीहरु, शिक्षकहरु, सिनेमानिर्माताहरु, पत्रकारहरु, वैज्ञानिकहरु, कलाकारहरु अथवा जुनसुकै पाठक जो सामान्य इन्टरनेट प्रयोगकर्ता र जसले आफ्नो अनलाइन जीवनलाइ गम्भीररुपमा लिन सक्छलाइ भेटेर गरिरहेका छौ ।

त्यसकारण, यो योजनाको पछाडी भनेको विभिन्न शिर्षकमा नया समाचार लेखहरु सामान्य भाषामा सिर्जना गर्नु, तिनीहरुलाई स्थानीयकरण गर्नु र तिनीहरुलाई समाचारपत्र, पत्रिकामा तथा विश्वभरीको टेक ब्लगमा प्रकाशित गर्न प्रयास गर्नु हो ।

लेखहरुको स्वभाव
त्यसैले, एउटा उदाहरणको लागि हामी आफ्नै फायरफक्स ब्राउसरलाए लिन्छौ ।
हामीहरु या त मानिसहरुलाइ कसरी फायरफक्सले खुला श्रोतलाइ क्रान्ति ल्याको हो, कसरी यसले वेबलाइ “खुला” राख्ने भनेर ख्याल गरिरहेको छ र कसरी मानिसहरुको इन्टरनेटमा स्वतन्त्रताको निम्ति लड्छ (केहि ति मानिसहरु संग मिल्छ जुन प्रविधि र इन्टरनेटमा कुनै पृष्ठभुमि छैन)
त्यहाँ धेरै प्रविधिहरु -(HTML5, WebM, CSS, SVG, Geolocation, Websockets etc.) छन, जुन त्यसमा कार्यान्वयन गरिदैछन् ।हामी ब्याख्या गर्न सक्थ्यौ कि किन यी वेब मानाकहरु अवश्यक छन – उनीहरू वेबको कार्यक्षमताकोलागि कति महत्वपूर्ण छन, कसरी उनीहरु यो ठाउँ भित्र आए, कसरी उनीहरु कार्य गर्छन, कसरी उनीहरु विकसित र अनुकुलित हुदै छन् र जस्तै प्रविधि पोक्त अथवा विज्ञलाइ प्रबन्ध गरेको छ ।

हामी दुबै प्रकारहरूको लागि लेख श्रोतहरु उत्पादन गर्न समानान्तरमा काम गरुँला ।

हामी के प्रकाशित गर्छौ यसलाई यसलाई प्रकाशक र लक्षित दर्शकको स्वभाव र पृष्ठभुमीमा निर्भर हुन दिउ । यो Comms SIG लाइ सोधिएको रणनीतिक मीडिया landscape फारम र उक्त स्थानका Comms SIG अथवा ReMo को नियमित प्रितिक्रियाबाट प्राप्त गर्न सकिन्छ ।

परियोजना सीमा
जस्तै समय वित्दै जान्छ, अरु धेरै प्रविधिहरु आउदै जान्छ र परिणाम स्वरुप हाम्रो वेब विस्तार हुनेछ।जब कुनै विकास आइपर्छ, हामी संक्षित लेख/साक्षात्कारको माध्यम माध्यमबाट तिनीहरु किन महत्वपुर्ण छन र तिनीहरुले वेबको खुलापनको निम्ति के भूमिका खेल्छन भन्ने कुरा बयान गरि लेख भण्डारमा थप्छौ ।
अहिले सम्म, हामीसंग यस्तो प्रकारको लेखहरुको भण्डार थिएन र परियोजनाको प्रारम्भिक चरणहरू अलि अलमल्लमा हुनेछन। हामीलाई उचित लाग्ने सबै शिर्षकहरुमा लेखहरु लेख्ने प्रयास गर्नेछौ।एक पटक जब हामीलाई भण्डारको सुविधा मिल्छ, केवल नया केहि आएको बेलामा हामी लेखको भण्डारमा थप्नुपर्ने हुन्छ।
हामी केवल लेखहरु मात्र लेख्नेमा सिमित हुनेछैनौ – मोलिज्जालाई विस्तारगर्ने हाम्रो प्राथमिक लक्ष्यको साथमा - सापेक्षित रुपमा दुर्लभ पदोन्नतिहरू, जस्तै कि podcast ,webnomic इत्यादि लामो यात्रामा उपयोगी हुन सक्छ ।

Technology, FOSS and Unions

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published on Nepal Telecommunication Authority Independent Workers Union´s Second SOUVENIR 2013

I like to start with the view of Walton Pantland “ICTs have the potential to profoundly transform unions and to permanently do away with their tendencies towards oligarchy, labourism, ideological conformism and narrow protectionism”. This means ICT is efficient tolls for spreading and strengthening the unionism. For this, first the unions should change themselves, their uncomfortable organizational structure and their unrealistic hierarchal organizing patterns. The horizontal organizing behavior of technology explores the new relationship and in touches between reps and members no more traditional like.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project survey found that 36 percent of social networking site users say the sites are “very important” or “somewhat important” to them in keeping up with political news. It also found 25 percent of social network users surveyed said they became more active in a political issue after discussing it or reading posts about it, and 16 percent said they changed their views about an issue after discussing it or reading about it on the sites.

US President Barack Obama speaks during a “Twitter Town Hall” in 2011 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are playing a growing role in US politics by helping users stay informed and energizing activists.

In Nepal, PM Baburam Bhattarai was one of the most active politicians in social network and web, and it plays crucial role for him to become prime minister. Now again to spectacle the faith from citizens he started twitter.

What Union Activist should be aware is, acceptance of ICT doesn’t guarantee for automatic results in increased worker militancy and engagement. The passions, patience and persistence strategy by union activists is required, as well as much experimentation. But the big problem of union is, they see ICT as simple communication tools using for communicate with in unions, broadcasting union message to members and other public, what they need to learn a cyberspace is a space, where people work, organize politically, are entertained and educated, and engage in many fields of human endeavor.

There is something common between FOSS movement and union movement: representation of civic society. Open source Software are the result of combine efforts of people from world for world which resembles natural analog with labor movement. There is certainly an ideological congruence: Open Source proves that people can work together to build complicated and sophisticated products without bosses and mechanisms for workplace discipline. We know a Debian[Ubuntu/Mint] a computer operating system based on Linux. Debian’s development model is democratic, and the work of more than a 1,000 volunteers all over the world is coordinated through transparent and decentralized methods. The strongest thing about FOSS is they are free. Free as a freedom that means freedom to use, freedom to copy, freedom to change, freedom to redistribute. “In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the post-scarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair, and asteroid prospecting.”. Then here comes question, why, then, do most trade unions still buy proprietary software when a supportive community of activists is able to provide free, Copyleft software that fulfills the same requirements?

At the very least, trade unions should seriously consider moving to FOSS as a matter of policy. It is worth pointing out that the developers of the Obama campaign understand the cultural implications of new technologies, and released all campaign materials under a General Public License, giving the public the complete freedom in contents and materials. This step reflects open society, what we union activist have been fighting for, so my suggestion is to use Open Source and let’s build Open Knowledgeable Society

Reference of [cyberunions.org and phys.org]

Document Freedom Day 2013 in Nepal

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It was the first formal program organized by OKFN Nepal.

OKFN Nepal with OSAC jointly organized the global event called Document Freedom Day in Nepal on 27th march 2013. The program was supported by FOSS Nepal and Central Department of Library and Information Science. We planned the venue for Amrit Campus, but due to some uncertainity we changed the venue to the venue of GPA Nepal. We started our program at 11:30.

Former Minister Ganesh Shah, Ministry of Science Technology and Environment welcomed all the participants and encourage us for these kind of movement for change. His speech once again motivated the youth of todayś.

Prakash Neupane, Ambassador of OKFN Nepal, presentaed on Document Freedom and Open Standard. He started by introducing about the Document Freedom Day, why this day celeberated, what is the motive. He discuss about the document open format and compatble issues and the problem. He presented about the open standard on documents, what it means to individual and and society.

After Prakash, Bhim Doj Shrestha head of Central Department of Library and Information Science presented Document Freedom and its Relevance in Libraries. He talked about the status of digital library practices in Nepal, obstacles and current problem of digitalizing the content. He talked about the different formats using in library and rises the issues of motivation for creaters/authors and technique to protect copyright/IPR of creator for making freedom of document format.

Demonstration on open Document tools had done by Utshab Bhetwal and Rajendra Sharma from OSAC, they demonstrate the Libre office and blue fish, and show what benefits of using this and how common for us, they encourage participate these tools for document freedom.

Finally Hempal Shrestha from FOSS Nepal, concluded the event.

Find the pics

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.624833557542878.1073741830.610321522327415&type=1

What other write about program:

Bhim Doj shrestha wrote this about praogram

On March 27 2013 , Document Freedom Day was celebrated at GPA Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal. Last year in 2012, a small talk program on “Document Freedom Day 2012” was conducted at Kathmandu Valley Public Library by Bhim Dhoj Shrestha. This year “Document Freedom Day 2013” was coordinated by Prakash Neupane of Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal (OKFN) together organized jointly with Central Department of Library and Information Science, Tribhuwan University, OSAC and FOSS Nepal.
On the occasion Bhim Dhoj Shrestha, the Head of Central Department of Library and Information Science, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal presented on “Documented freedom and its relevance in Libraries”. He talked about Libraries in Nepal Just started transforming to Digital Format from Print Format and very few Libraries in Nepal started building collection in Full Text in digital formats. He talked how Libraries are supposed to be largest storehouse, Users and Purchaser of Full Text in digital formats regarding eBooks. He also told that Libraries cannot acquire all different Companies e-book Readers which could be a great hindrance, and discussed about Double tier copyright or IPR?
Some of the eBook Readers are SoftBook, Sony Reader, Intel Reader, Apple iPad, Nook Reader, Kobo eReader, Kindle and So on. The hindrances in digitizing are Financial, Technical and Human Resources in the libraries in Nepal. He explained how If we could not free document formats (document freedom). It may be Dead-like technologies, e.g: micro-film, micro-fiche, Ultra-fiche, etc. Mr. Shrestha also cite an example of Asha Archives, where century old manuscripts have been digitized in McIntosh format before two decades and now problem of accessibility.
Former Minister for Science and Technology gave inaugural speech on importance of Document Freedom. The other speakers were Mr Prakash Neupane of OKFN on Document Freedom and Open Standard. Demonstration on Open Data Tools was done by Utshab Bhetuwal and Rajendra Sharma of Amrit Science Campus. Mr. Hempal Shrestha of FOSS Nepal concluded the program.

Utshab Bhetwal from OSAC wrote this about praogam

Every year , the last Wednesday of March is celebrated as Document Freedom day . It is a day for celebrating and raising awareness of Open Standards and formats.On this important date people who believe in fair access to communications technology teach, perform, and demonstrate.
Following this trend of celebration,for the first time in Nepal , this year Open knowledge foundation Nepal (OKFN) and OSAC combinely involved in celebration , organizing a program . The programme was based on presentation , talk and demonstration on Open data , Open standards and Open data tools . GPA Nepal , Kamaladi was chosen as the venue for the event which started sharply at 11 am .
Firstly Prakash Neupane (our Senior Brother) presented on Document freedom and open Standard . Secondly Bhim Doj Shrestha (Head central department of library and information science TU) presented on Document Freedom and its Relevance in Libraries . In the similar manner Hempal Shrestha from FOSS Nepal discussed on interrelation of Open source with the Open documents and open standards . Last but not the least , Utshab Bhetuwal and Rajendra Sharma (members from OSAC ) presented and demonstrated on Open data tools (LibreOffice and Bluefish Editor)

Spandan Pradhan wrote about program:

On March 27 2013 , Document Freedom Day was celebrated in GPA Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal. This was the first time a event on document freedom was organized in Nepal. Prakash Neupane as the ambassador of Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal (OKFN) together with OSAC organized this event which was supported by FOSS Nepal and Central Department of Library and Information Science (Tribhuwan University). Prakash Neupane started the event by calling Former minister Ganesh Shah on podium to give welcome speech. He as always gave a serious speech with fun filled environment. Remembering his youth days, he appreciated this effort of OKFN and today’s youth for initiative on Document Freedom. He recalled the days, when he as a youth wanted to open initiatives or group like this but it was hard at that time. Although his busy schedule, he managed time for this event.

More in http://spandan.com.np/blog/document-freedom-day-2013

पनटन सिधान्तहरु :विज्ञानमा खुला तथ्यांकको लागि सिधान्तहरु

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विज्ञानमा खुला तथ्यांकको लागि सिधान्तहरु

बिज्ञान पुनप्रयोग र खुला आलोचना प्रकाशित बैज्ञानिक ज्ञानको शरीर विकाशमा आधारित गरिन्छ । विज्ञानलागि राम्ररी कार्य गर्न, र वैज्ञानिक प्रयत्नहरूबाट समाजकोलागि पूर्ण फाइदाहरु प्राप्तगर्न, विज्ञान तथ्यांकलाई खुला गर्नु अपरिहार्य हुन्छ ।

बिज्ञानमा खुला तथ्यांक भन्नाले हामी बुझ्छौ की यो इन्टरनेटमा सजिलो संग उपलब्ध हुनुपर्छ जहाँ जुनसुकै प्रयोगकर्ताले यसलाई सफ्टवेरमा डाउनलोड, प्रतिलिपिकपि, विश्लेषण, पुन-प्रक्रिया, पास गर्न अथवा कुनैपनि आर्थिक, कानुनी अथवा प्राविधिक अवरोध बिना अरु कुनै उधश्यकोलागि प्रयोग गर्न पाउछ । यसको अन्त्यमा प्रकाशित बिज्ञान संग सम्बन्धित तथ्यांक सर्वसाधारण क्षेत्रमा सुस्पष्ट रुपमा राखिनुपर्छ ।

औपचारिक रुपमा, हामी यी सिधन्तहरुमा अपनाउन र कार्यगर्न सिफारिस गरिन्छ :

१. जहाँ तथ्यांक वा तथ्यांकको संग्रह प्रकाशित हुन्छ त्यहा महत्वपूर्ण हुन्छ कि तिनीहरु प्रकाशकहरुको इक्षा र आशाको स्पष्ट र प्रस्ट बयानका साथ प्रकाशित हुनुपर्छ साथै व्यक्तिगत तथ्यांक तत्व, पूर्ण तथ्यांक संग्रह र संग्रहको उपसमूहको पुन प्रयोग र पुन उधश्यको सम्मान हुनुपर्छ। यो बयान सटिक, स्थिर र लाइसेन्सको रुपमा एक उपयुक्त र मान्यताप्राप्त कानुनी बयान हुनुपर्द्छ ।

जब तथ्यांक प्रकाशन गर्दैहुनुहुन्छ आफ्नो इच्छाहरुको एक स्पष्ट र बलियो बयान बनाउनुहोस् ।

२. धेरै व्यापकरुपले मान्यता प्राप्त लाइसेन्सहरु तथ्यांक अथवा तथ्यांकहरुको संग्रहहरुको निम्ति बनेको छैन र उपयुक्त छैन। धेरै किसिमको छुट र लाइसेन्स जुन डाटाको लागि डिजाइन र तथ्यांकको उपचारको निम्ति उपयुक्त छन् यहाँ बर्णन गरिएको छ | क्रियटिभ कमन्स लाइसेन्स (CCZero बाट अलग), GFDL, GPL, BSD आदि हरु तथ्यांकको लागि उपयुक्त छैन र तिनीहरुको प्रयोग दृढता संग निरुत्साहित गरिन्छ ।

मान्यता प्राप्त छुट वा लाइसेन्स प्रयोग गर्नुस जुन तथ्यांकको निम्ति उपयुक्त हुन्छ ।

३. लाइसेन्सको प्रयोग जसले विशेष प्रयोजनों को लागि वा विशिष्ट व्यक्ति वा संगठन द्वारा उपयोगलाइ छोडेर व्यावसायिक पुन उपयोग सिमा अथवा ब्युत्पन्न कार्यको उत्पादन सीमालाई दृढता संग निरुत्साहित गरिन्छ । यस्ता लाइसेन्सहरु डाटासमूहहरुलाई प्रभावकारी एकत्रित र पुन उद्देश्य असम्भव बनाउछ र डाटा संरक्षणलाइ समर्थन गर्न प्रयोग हुनसक्ने व्यवसायिक गतिविधिलै रोक्छ ।

यदि तपाई आफ्नो तथ्यांकलाई प्रभावकरी रुपले उपयोग गर्न चाहनुहुन्छ र अरुहरु बाट थप्न चाहनुहुन्छ भने त्यो खुला ज्ञान/ खुला परिभाषाले परिभाषित गरेअनुसार खुला हुनुपर्छ- बिशेषरुपले गैर व्यवसायिक र अन्य रतिबंधात्मक खंड गरिनु हुनुहुदैन ।

४. यो बाहेक, बिज्ञानमा यो कडा सिफारिस गरिएको छ कि तथ्यांक, बिशेषगरी जहाँ सार्वजनिक पुंजी हुन्छ, स्पष्ट रुपमा सार्वजनिक डोमेन, समर्पण र लाइसेंस अथवा क्रिएटिव कमन्स शून्य छूट को उपयोगको मध्यमबाट सार्वजनिक डोमेनमा राखिनु पर्दछ । यो धेरै बैज्ञानिक अनुसंधान र बैज्ञानिक समुदाय भित्र साझा गर्न र पुन उपयोग गर्ने सामान्य लोकाचारको सार्वजनिक धनको साथ ध्यानमा राखिन्छ ।

PDDL or CCZero माध्यमबाट सार्वजनिक डोमेनमा तथ्यांक अंतर्निहित प्रकाशित विज्ञानको स्पष्ट समर्पण कडा सिफसिश गर्छ र खुला पहुच र खुला ज्ञान/ तथ्यांक परिभाषा लागुगर्न दुवै बिज्ञान कमन्स प्रोटोकल पालना सुनिचित गर्छ ।

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दस्तावेज स्वतन्त्रता दिवस नेपाल

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”’दस्तावेज स्वतन्त्रता दिवस(Document Freedom Day)”’ भनेको बिश्व भरी नै खुला मानक तथा खुला दस्तावेज बनावट को बरेमा सर्वसाधारणलाइ जनचेतना दिलाउने उत्सव हो । यो दिवस हरेक वर्ष अग्रेजी महिना मार्चको अन्तिम वुधवार मनाइन्छ । सर्वप्रथम यो २००८को मार्चको अन्तिम वुधवार, २६ तारिकको दिन मनाइएको थियो । यो दिन मनिसहरु, जो संचार प्रविधिमा वरावरी पहुचको मान्यता राख्दछन्, उनीहरु अरुलाई सिकाउछन, प्रस्तुत गर्छन, प्रदशन गर्छन ।

यो वर्ष अहिले सम्म करिब ३० वटा राष्ट्रमा कार्यक्रम दर्ता भैसकेको छ र यो क्रम बढ्दो छ । नेपालमा पनि यो दिवस पहिलो पटक ओकेएफएन नेपाल (OKFN Nepal) ले ओसाक् (OSAC) को सहआयोजनामा आयोजना गरेको छ । उक्त दिन विशेष गरी दस्तावेज स्वतन्त्रता, खुला डाटा, सफ्टवेयर स्वत्रन्त्रता, खुला दस्तावेज सामग्रीको बारेमा चर्चा एवं प्रदशन गर्नेछौ ।

Episode2: Yatra Professional ko at Amrit Campus

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The second edition of Yatra Professional ko is going to held in Amrit Campus. The program is organized by S2P for 3rd semester student of college. In this time, program is based on “Web World” theme. Time schedule of Program is

6:50-7:00	Introduction of S2P	Prakash Neupane
7:00-7:10	Story from Professional	Binod Ranabhat
7:10-7:20	Story from Professional	Cooshal Ranabhat
7:20-7:40	Q/A	Bhoj Raj Ghimire
7:40-7:50	Closing	Sunoj Shrestha

Theme : Web World

Time: 6:50-7:50

Venue: Amrit Campus

Speakers

1. Binod Ranabhat

www.binodranabhat.com.np
Carrier Started From Meropokhara.com
Founder / CEO at Donib Technology Pvt Ltd
CTO at two Wheels Pvt Ltd
IT-Consultant at Akhtar International Pvt Ltd

2. Cooshal Gautam

Worked as Developer at Mahoo Nepal
Senior Developer at Janaki Technology
Web Development Committee Co-ordinator for Leo District Council

Moderator

Bhoj Raj Ghimire

Senior Project Manager, Senior Manager, Business Analysis at Deerwalk
worked as GIS Technician / Analyst at GIC /Asian Institute of Technology-Thailand, JAXA- Japan and Bhim District Hospital- Nepal Government
worked as Project Manager and Team Leader at shangrila micro system pvt ltd
worked as Software Developer and Quality Assurance Engineer at Mauj (People Soft Pvt. Ltd)
worked as System Analyst at National College of Computer Studies (NCCS)
Lecturer of Computer Science, Engineering and IT courses

eTourism, Web and open Tourism

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I got the opportunity to present the open tourism in terms of technical aspect of ICT and Tourism in Valley wide web page competition on 3^rd March 2013, organized by ANNFSU P.U. Valley Bagmati Zome Coordination Committee. I must say this was the first public presentation, after being ambassador of Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal. Day before, I got ring from Spandan Pradhan, one ICT enthusiastic e Nepal, and he asked me to present on technical aspect of ICT and Tourism … due to very short time, I thought for a while and conformed. I started to prepare my presentation, consult with some experts, asked suggestion in our internal discussion, gone through research papers and finally ready. The program was inaugurated by Former Finance Ministry Surendra Pandey but I went there after formal session, there was the competition between 10 innovate web team (persuading engineering in different colleges). At the end of program, I invited for presentation. Here is the summary what I presented there

We are substantiation for revolution in ICTs, which profound implication for economic development and social development has driven this world. It has pervaded every aspect of human life whether it is health, education, economics, governance, entertainment, tourism etc.

In terms of Tourism, ICT is consider as broad terminology referring to multiple communication technologies which range from simple and complex namely Cell Phone applications (SMS), Digital Cameras, Internet, Wireless, VOIP,GPS, GIS, Convergence (data, voice, media), Digital radio and many more.

Tourism is currently one of the fastest gowning industries across the world. It is primarily a service industry as it does not produce goods but renders services to various classes of people. It is an combination of various interrelated industries and trade like food industry, transport industry etc. It is an complicated business because it involves multiple socio-economic activities like attracting people to a destination, transporting them, housing, feeding and entertaining etc.

ICT is crucial driving force in the current information driven society for tourism, It has provided new tools and enabled new distribution channels, thus creating a new business environment. The use of Geospatial Information Technologies in the recent years across the globe for varied purposes is popularly known and Tourism industry has not been an exception in availing its advantages. The role of ICT tools in the industry for marketing, operation, and management of customer is widely known

But the question arise why ICT fails (specially in the developing country like Nepal ). It is not limited but the main reasons are due to not compatible for all devices (from desktop to mobile), not able to give information what people looking for. It is very difficult to find prices, availability and tour times, not showing currency conversions or a link to do it. Most common cases is not updated frequently : out of date prices, discounts. Most of the sites are not accurate mapping : stick a pin in a map of their location, but GPS taking us far from it. Not good in search engine and mot recommended on social networks and travel networks. Sometimes, no instant contact method. If we consider these things I think your site will better readable for visitors.

Limitations:

Unavailability of Internet and Education
Reliability
Fragmented Information
Chances of misusing and misunderstanding of data/information
Time Consuming
Search engines for tourism
Cost

Solutions:

Awareness of scope and importance of digital way
Participation
User readability
Open source

What is the Way?

Lets make it open. Where, Open Definition sets out principles to that define “openness” in relation to data and content.

“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.”

Open Tourism motivate for potential powerful network, this means aggregation of simple action by millions of people creates better effect. We can say crowd sourcing is the way for making millions of people from different places involve in action, so finally it makes huge.

This drives the people to come in single platform, so it reduces extra effort of group formation and collaboration. What we learned from past that, the organizing and collaborating is the most essential part for vibrant change driven society, and these days, the open technology lead this in very low budget and low time

Open Tourism guarantee the equal role and right for each individuals, so it call for global participation and extend the possibilities for external participation.

Open tourism is the lane for innovation and creativity, this explore the new possibility for social development and economic development, which lead the new possibilities of market. It can be the gateway for new business idea and new business opportunity

Free culture promotes the freedom to distribute and modify the creative works in forms of content.

Open street map is wiki map, where everyone is producer and consumer of mapping data. So people can easily add the places and paths. This is more reliable to explore and creates new tourist destinations.

Tourism, Web and Open Tourism from Prakash Neupane

Episode1: Yatra Professional ko in Sunway International Business School

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Yatra Professional ko is an inspiring journey of the professional to celebrate professionalism and bring stories from successful professional in their own words. The invited speakers will share their professional journey and talk about lessons learnt, mistakes they wish they avoided and key decisions that helped make their career successful. The whole things will come with the clear idea of technology adaptation.

S2P is the initiation intended to transferring the student into Professional. But here professional doesn’t means making job. We are trying to create an environment in colleges and university for life-centered education and trying to create an environment where industry can contribute in this eco system.

Theme: Career on Mobile World

Proposed date: 9^th March, 2013

Venue: Sunway InternationalBusiness School

Schedule

10:30-10:45	Registration	–
10:45-11:00	Formal Session and Introduction of S2P [10-15]	Prakash Neupane
11:00-11:10	Education and ICT Market Trends[5-10]	Rom Kanta Pandey
11:10-11:30	Presentation from IT Professional[15-20]	Bishwas Dhakal
11:30-11:50	Presentation from IT Professional [15-20]	Himal Karmacharya
11:50-12:20	Floor Open for Interaction/QA[20-30]	–
12:20-12:30	Words from University [5-10]	Prof. Dr. Subarna Shakya
12:30-12:40	Words from Industry [5-10]	Anil Shah
12:40-12:50	Words from Ministry

Speakers

Himal Karmacharya

CEO of Leap Frog

Worked as CTO for Deerwalk and Streamcast Media LLC

Worked as Vice President of Engineering at Verisk Health

Worked in leadership position at Oracle Corporation and Motorola

Himal is a senior software executive with over ten years of software industry experience. He has extensive experience leading the development and delivery of large enterprise software projects. He is passionate about applying the latest technology to bring better opportunities to the bottom of the pyramid population and thereby leapfrogging the digital divide

Bishwas Dhakal

Young Entrepreneur

President at F1 Soft International

Global Entrepreneur of the Year 2011

Well known for esewa and fonepay

Biswas established F1Soft with the vision to create the most preferred IT solutions provider in the country and has come a long way since its inception.A first gen entrepreneur, he grasped all the opportunities and took his company from a humble beginning to being a dominant player in the Nepalese digital transaction market. F1Soft started with value added services like SMS banking and gradually moved to more sophisticated next generation banking solutions which is the core of our business today.

Rom Kanta Pandey

Executive member of Computer Association of Nepal

Secretary of ISOC Nepal Chapter

Lecturer of CS and IT

Guest Speakers

Anil Shah [CEO of Mega Bank]

Prof. Dr. Subarna Shakya [IOE Pulchowk]

Here you can join for more details http://www.facebook.com/events/569723323045810/?sid=0.19368829927407205