She has used World Bank statistics in her book but she is vocal on the issue of human rights violations by the development discourse of the World Bank. Her message to the readers and follower alike is : DEMAND DIGNITY. There has been many tools and institutions to work on the supply of justice but the poorest of the poor do not have access to that. The keyword is ACCESS. Irene cites her own case of having access to education vs his own childhood friend without the access to education.

Based on the data of a billion people living on the slums she exposed the mockery of the development discourse of the 21st century. In order to solve this challene she suggests that the housing policies need to be built by listening to the target groups.

Though she believes on the Market Mechanism but she has a view that Government must ensure equal access for the population these basic rights: health, education and security. The far cry of the data on maternity and assoicated mortality in the range of half a million– she demands Right to safe motherhood. And the tool is to have access to health. According to her maternity is not an illness but still we have not been able to solve this crisis.

She quotes President Roosevelt in saying ‘Freedom from want not only from fear’. Freedom from want and freedom from fear go side by side. She believes in empowerment rather than enrichment of the people. I think she has turned the coin towards poverty where Human Right was an isolated notion in the past. According to her they are the two sides of the same coin…

1. Do we nurture diversity or despise it?

2. Do we celebrate failure as next success path or reject the failed entrepreneurs?

3. Are we run by the market economics or state subsidies?

4. Are we just creating patents or commercializing it?

Answers to the above mentioned questions suggest that just copying the models from Silicon Valley without building the culture to appreciate failing forward–success is a distant future. Recently Russia has initiated this copycat models of Silicon Valley without understanding the need to build educational systems and country culture.

Japan has initiated such top-down innovation experiments without a real breakthrough for decades. The after war success stories of multinationals faded away. On the other hand China has invested heavily on the R&D and patenting has evolved pretty well but the innovation has faltered.

Let us look at US innovation system on the other hand. This country thrives in innovation when there is recession is there. More than half of all Silicon Valley start-ups created in the past recession turned out to be a great success. Innovation experts are betting that the same history will be repeated in the
future as well.

According to Vivek Wadhwa, the lesson that other regions need to learn from Silicon Valley is to glorify and embrace their failed entrepreneurs. Countries such as Germany, Japan, France, and India need to change their laws to allow high-tech companies to be started and shut down more easily. Their leaders need to work toward removing the stigma associated with failure. Their public needs to be educated to understand that, in the high-tech world at least, experimentation and risk-taking are the paths to success; that success is often preceded by one or more failures. This must be discussed frequently by political leaders and taught in schools. They should establish venture funds for entrepreneurs who are starting their second or third businesses after failing.

Vivek’s conclusions generates a compelling hypothesis for Finnish start-up ecosystem to embark into and making the future success stories from the Finnish garages.

गैरआवासीय नेपाली दिवसको पूर्व सन्ध्यामा नेपाल सरकार शिक्षा मन्त्रालय र
गैरआवासीय नेपाली संघको संयुक्त तत्वाधानमा नेपालमा खुल्ला विश्व
विद्यालयका विषयमा आज काठमाडौंमा एक वृहद अन्तरक्रिया कार्यक्रम सम्पन्न भयो ।

नेपालमा खुल्ला विश्व विद्यालय स्थापनाका लागि नेपाल सरकारको प्रयासलाई
साकार रुप दिन सरकार तथा गैरआवासीय नेपाली संघ बीच यस सम्बन्धमा सहकार्य
गर्ने सम्बन्धी सहमती पनि भएको छ ।

सहमतीपत्रमा आपसी सहकार्यका माध्यमबाट खुल्ला विश्व विद्यालय स्थापनाका
लागि एनआरएनका तर्फबाट सम्भावित सवै प्रकारको सहयोग गर्ने उल्लेख छ ।
नेपाल सरकार शिक्षा मन्त्रालयले खुल्ला विश्वविद्यालय सम्बन्धी प्रस्ताव
बनाई मन्त्रिपरिषदमा पेश गर्ने तयारी गरेको छ ।

आर्थिक-सामाजिक अवस्था, भौगोलिक विकटता जस्ता अवरोधहरुका कारण आजसम्म पनि
उच्चशिक्षाको पहुंचबाट टाढा रहन वंचित नेपाली जनताको लागि खुल्ला
विश्वविद्यालय उच्च शिक्षा हासिल गर्ने एक प्रभावकारी माध्यम हुने सो अन्तरक्रियामा जोड दिइयो ।

विभिन्न ५६ भन्दा बढी देशहरुमा रहेर खासगरि शैक्षिक एवं
विज्ञान/प्रविधिका क्षेत्रमा कार्यरत गैरआवासीय नेपालीहरुले आर्जन गरेको
ज्ञान, शीप, पूंजी, अनुभव र अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय शैक्षिक सम्बन्ध नेपालमा
उच्च शिक्षाको विकासमा निकै प्रभावकारी हुने सो अवसरमा बताइयो ।

यो सहमतीले खुला विश्वविद्यालयको स्थापनाका लागि सरकारले अगाडी बढाएको
योजनालाई साकार रुप दिन एनआरएन एउटा वलियो साझेदारको रुपमा अगाडी आएको विश्वास गरिएको छ ।

शिक्षा मन्त्री सर्वेन्द्रनाथ शुक्ल, खुला तथा दुर शिक्षाका लागि
अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय परिषद तथा अथवास्का विश्वविद्यालय अष्ट्रेलियका अध्यक्ष
डा. फ्रीट्स प्यानीकोइक (Dr. Frits Pannekoek, President of International Council for Open and Distance Education and President of
Athabasca University, Australia ) को समुपस्थितिमा सहमतीपत्रमा शिक्षा
मन्त्रालयका सहसचिव जनार्दन नेपाल र एनआरएनका तर्फबाट संघका अध्यक्ष
देवमान हिराचनले हस्ताक्षर गर्नुभयो । सहमतीपत्र एनआरएनका कार्यकारी
निर्देशक होमराज आचार्यले पढेर सुनाउनुका साथै स्टेरिङ कमिटिका
सदस्यहरुको नाम पनि पढेर सुनाउनु भएको थियो ।

सो अन्तरक्रिया कार्यक्रमका मुख्य वक्ता डा. फ्रीट्सले खासगरी विकासशिल
तथा विकासोन्मुख देशहरुमा खुला विश्वविद्यालयले उच्चशिक्षाको राम्रो सेवा
दिइरहेका र एशियाली मुलुकहरुमा पनि यस्ता विश्वविद्यालय स्थापना गर्ने
क्रम बढ्दै गएकाले, भौगोलिक एवं आर्थिक सामाजिक परिवेशका कारण पनि
नेपालमा यो अवधारणा अझ बढी प्रभावकारी हुने विश्वास प्रकट गर्नुभयो ।
उहांले खुला विश्वविद्यालयले प्रदान गर्ने शिक्षाको गुणस्तरमापनका लागि
भने वलियो संयन्त्र निर्माण हुनुपर्नेमा जोड दिंदै नेपालमा खुला
विश्वविद्यालय स्थापनाको परिकल्पनालाई सफल पार्न आफनो ज्ञान र शीप अनि
आफ्नो विश्वविद्यालयको तर्फबाट एनआरएनका माध्यमबाट सहयोग गर्ने विश्वास दिलाउनु भयो ।

सो अवसरमा मन्त्री शुक्लले खुला विश्वविद्यालय स्थापना र संचालनका लागि
शिक्षा मन्त्रालय निकै अगाडी बढी सकेको र यसमा सहकार्य गर्न एनआरएनबाट
देखाइएको प्रतिवद्धताले अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय अनुभव समेत भित्र्याई यसलाई
प्रतिफलमुखी बनाउन सघाउ पुग्ने विश्वास प्रकट गर्नुभयो ।

एनआरएनका अध्यक्ष देवमान हिराचनले शिक्षा, विज्ञान तथा प्रविधिका
क्षेत्रमा देशले प्रगति गर्न नसकेसम्म देशको विकास नहुने अनुभव सवै
एनआरएनहरुले गरेकाले देशको शिक्षा, विज्ञान प्रविधिको विकासमा नेपाल
सरकार शिक्षा, मन्त्रालय र नेपाल विज्ञान तथा प्रविधि प्रतिष्ठान (नाष्ट)
संग सहकार्यका लागि एनआरएनले हातेमालो गरेको जानकारी गराउनु भयो ।

कार्यक्रममा नेपालमा खुल्ला विश्वविद्यालय स्थापनाका लागि विदेशमा रहेर
प्रभावकारी भूमिका निर्वाह गरिरहनु भएका डा. प्रमोद ढकाल लगायतले
हालसम्मको प्रगति, अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय अनुभव आदान प्रदान गर्नुभएको थियो ।
कार्यक्रममा त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालय, काठमाडौं विश्वविद्यालयका
उपकुलपतिहरु, शिक्षा मन्त्रालयका वरिष्ठ पदाधिकारीहरु, एनआरएनहरु, शिक्षा
विद्हरु तथा विद्यार्थीहरुको सहभागिता रहेको थियो ।

२०६७ असोज २१

Source
http://www.nrn.org.np/medianewsdetail.php?id=2203

1. Passionate about the business idea

2. Pivoting business model to have unique value proposition

3. Creating that makes all the TEAM proud of it!!

4. CEO is a Good Leader

5. CEO is visible all the time!!

We pivoted so far and we are pivoting for the next new curve in the industry. Value creation and value capturing through partners is an ongoing process!!

Keep innovating!!

"Man can never agree to crawl, if one drives him to fly"- Helen Keller

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”-Rick Warren

HUMILITY MAGNANIMITY PRUDENCE COURAGE JUSTICE SELF-CONTROL

Following questions emerged:

1. WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM?

2. MOBILE OPERATOR BASED VS. OVI STORE BASED STRATEGY?

3. SEGMENTATION STRATEGY?

4. WHAT KIND OF INNOVATION IN SOFTWARE TO CAPTURE?

5. NEXT CURVE OF SMART PHONES?

6. ADVERTISE?

"Man can never agree to crawl, if one drives him to fly"- Helen Keller

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”-Rick Warren

HUMILITY MAGNANIMITY PRUDENCE COURAGE JUSTICE SELF-CONTROL

One of the countries in focus was Nepal and the delegates presented Children’s Parliament to Youth Vision. On the other hand Sri Lankan experience on denial of Human Rights for the minorities shook the conscience of the participants. The other country in Focus was Rwanda where the discussions focused on EQUAL participation and development for all.

During the closing part there were three workshops:

1. Youth’s right to participation and development–Best Practices

2. Women’s Right to Participation and Development–Best Practices

3. Global Economic Structures and Right to Participation–

I participated on the 3rd group. The session was raising concerns on the POLITICAL WILL of the country for example Finland to do sanctions for the countries who violate human rights. Company’s ethical practices were the major concerns!! The notion that I put on the discussion was the CREATIVE CAPITALISM (Please look into my previous post on this topic) There were opposing views just because the phrase was coined by Bill Gates and he is pursuing this in his new part of life after Microsoft. What fascinates me about this notion is that it is giving an alternative to donate the best creative workforce’s 5-7 percent of their time. ThinkITGlobal has enabled the voice of the common volunteers. Bills & Melinda Gates Foundation is focusing in preventive mechanism rather than cure and I subscribe to that notion fully. There has been concerns about the ethical practices for sure!!

Therefore, I passionately wait for next year’s Seminar!!

In this book Martti explains how Russians with potentially transformational technologies can first protect and then launch their technologies into the outside world and how FINLAND can have competitive advantage in facilitating that. Vallila writes:
Finland, a country of 5 million, with a long boarder and history with Russia, is blessed with few natural resources and must rely on the resourcefulness of her people to create wealth. Finland is in a position to provide what Russia needs: trusted, transparent access to the world market, an incubator of technologies, developer of prototypes. Finland has historically played the lucrative role of middleman between the dollar and ruble zone in the days of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union was Finland’s largest trading partner.

What mesmerized me the most is the following statement:

Quiet, reserved Finland makes a potentially efficient “gear-box” between mysterious, complex Russia, and the outside world.

Personally, I have never thought this possibility. I really thank the author in opening my eyes about this “gear-box” possibilities for Finland and SITRA has published a report from Trade to Partnership. Mr. Vallila has made a good reference of “The Russia Action Plan” published by Government of Finalnd. The emphasis on this report is in the area of close co-operation in the field of innovation.

My interest area in the book was on the competitive advantage angle for Finland and Martti’s conclusions in this chapter might wake up the brains of Finland as well:

Business Lessons in Martti’s words:

• Small, trusted neighbors with complimentary skills, are often the best partners for practical steps forward.
• There is great risk of “thinking small” if you are not big.
• The small should not be afraid to think big where they have a unique contribution.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome! The new frontier has just begun!!

According to Mr. Vallila, Russia has experienced a tumultuous 18 years, has emerged stable and confident, and faces its moment of truth: does she recoil into the stable state of a banana republic of oil and gas or does
she step forward, enter the global village, and contribute her considerable talents to the game of integrated human progress?
He concludes:
There is clearly a right answer.

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