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The Future is Data!

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The phrases like “Big Data, Data Analytics or Data Science” are getting much general this days. IT geek to any under/grad scholar or any who wanted to catch up and build a career in the field of data often love this tagline. In the scenario of Nepal, Data hypes are growing faster, the local tech industries, outsourcing companies and even The Government of Nepal nowadays focusing on Data and consequences. The past few years have seen a growing focus on data as a key driver of technological development. It’s expected that data is the next step of revolution in the Technology of Nepal. Internationally, the data revolution has emerged as a key paradigm. What is Data? We see a data everywhere, a distinct piece of information with a set of values that can be either qualitative or quantitative. Usually, formatted in a special way to measured, collected and reported, analyzed and also it can be visualized using images, graphs or with any analysis tools. Digital data exist in the very ra...

The Fourth Industrial Revolution!!!

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Many of us heard about the Fourth Industry Revolution, frequently but we may wonder what exactly is it? It’s a very searing topic that we talked over the last few years. The Fourth Industry Revolution is all about the fusion of disruptive technologies, internet of things (IoT), robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to change the way we live and work on it. It is considered as the emerging tech revolution in all the sectors associated with mankind. Fourth industrial revolution expected to build the digital revolution. Stages of the Industrial Revolution i.                     First Industrial Revolution:                                            In 18 th to 19 th ...

We Deserve Tax-free Internet!!!

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Just before the legislative election we often heard about the easily access internet, free Wi-Fi and digitalization Government etc. news often from different political parties of Nepal. Majority of the Political parties of Nepal mentioned these things in their manifesto as well. Many Nepalese are in the new hope and era to see digitizing and Internet for All Nepal. Suddenly, the federal budget 2075/76 announced to increase the income tax of internet and telecommunication services. The internet charges will be increased to 13 percent and telecommunication charges will be 2 percent effective from July 17, 2018 (1 st Shrawan 2075). Telecom operators have started promoting their prices inclusive of all applicable taxes already. Such taxes include VAT and telephone service charge. After this provision, the telecom operator will revise the tariff or costs as per the new service charge. Biggest Impact When every nation is trying to tax-free encouragement telecommunication and internet...
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Why they are my all-time favorite books? Under fiction:        Sputnik Sweetheart ” || by Murakami “ Sputnik Sweetheart ” by Murakami: The most underrated, I think, of Murakami’s novels. Depicts really well the loneliness of unrequited love, and is much more accessible than Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Kafka on the Shore or The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. The Alchemist ”|| Paulo Coelho “ The Alchemist ”(Paulo Coelho) Reading this is like a magical journey. It’s a great self-help book written in a format of the novel story. It’s all about destiny! You'll enjoy throughout the journey of reading! To Kill a Mockingbird || by Harper Lee " To Kill a Mockingbird " - My absolute all-time favorite that I don't think will ever be topped. I recommend it to anyone and everyone if they ever want something to read. I read it when I was young and I think I grew up a little bit over the journey.              ...

Net Neutrality In Nepal

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The ISP (Internet Service Provider) in Nepal is increasing numerously in some couple of years. Currently, there are altogether forty-five registered and operating ISP all over Nepal as per recent data shows by Nepal Telecom Authority (NTA). This numbers expected to grow more in coming years. ISP help customers to access the internet very conveniently. The internet we use everyday is accessed through ISP. So, they play the vigorous role in our day to day life. But we may not aware of the net neutrality that Nepalese ISP follows.  Net Neutrality Net Neutrality or known as ‘Network Neutrality’ is the big talk issues in the IT industry and we heard often about it. Net neutrality is the principle that any individuals should be free to access all content, application, and method of communication without any discrimination. Every website or content you visit and view all over the internet should treat equally. Your ISP should provide the same bandwidth whichever website you visit. ...

Are You HeForShe...???

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Image Source: assets.change.org With a strong United Nations UN theme “Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women's lives,” this year International Women’s Day is ready to celebrate. This year theme is taken from the global movements held all over the world in the women’s rights and justice. Same way including #MeToo , #TimesUp and #PressforProgress campaign that run all around the world and much more in Social Media. The theme issues generally intensification on Sexual harassment, femicide to equal pay and women’s in political representation. UN hope the status of women in International Women’s Day will bring greater attention to the rights and activism of rural women who are left behind. History It was 1908 with a group of 15,000 women marched in the street of New York, demanding their rights and freedom and celebrated first International Women’s Day. Sine, then every year on March 8 the world joins hands together to celebrate this day. The major pur...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Nepal

You just uploaded your group photos on Facebook, the service automatically highlights faces and suggest friends to tag. You love reading articles about gadgets and your Facebook newsfeed filled up with those interesting articles about gadgets. Facebook know what you love to read or see. These interesting systems are achieved by AI. AI is the simulation of human intelligence performed by the machine, epically in computer systems. Let’s understand in the very simple way, AI helps to work like a human. They don’t have brain, someone must feed the brain inside the machine and we generally called Robot. Now when you fill brain into the machine, it turns out as the intelligence machine not natural. This is AI. AI also known for branch of computer science to create or develop intelligent machine. In the context of Nepal, major questions come to everyone mind, how Nepal will practice the AI kinds of things? Will this be sustainable in the country like Nepal? How will it go up? They a...