Modern thoughts have considered three independent faculties in governance: Legislative, Executive... more Modern thoughts have considered three independent faculties in governance: Legislative, Executive and Judicial. The ancient philosophers, however, seem to have been more advanced than us in discovering the fourth faculty in governance on top of these three. This article picks up on that ancient wisdom to propose a system of governance with four independent faculties: executive, judicial, legislative, and innovative.
Summary of the conference: Role of Nepali Diaspora in Higher Education in Nepal, 2019
The ongoing international migration from developing countries to developed ones has led to a larg... more The ongoing international migration from developing countries to developed ones has led to a large presence of Diaspora population in developed countries. Many of those well-educated and established professionals and businessmen have felt a need to give back to their home countries. The impact of Diaspora in their home country has been realized mainly in four different areas: economic development through remittance, investment and trade; intellectual development via knowledge transfer and knowledge application; social development through philanthropy and volunteerism; and political development via diplomacy, lobbying, awareness raising and political participation.
Diaspora giving back mechanisms have deployed various programs. Such programs are often initiated by individuals, non-governmental organizations, and governments of developed countries. For example, Academics Without Borders is a Canadian NGO; it is a new but effective program. It uses a train-the-trainer model to build capacity of the host institution with an enduring impact. Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nations (TOKTEN) was designed by the United Nations to help developing countries bring talents home. UNESCO, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, has a program to provide grid computing technology to promote collaboration between home country academics and Diaspora professionals. The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows program facilitates short-term exchange program between Africa born academics working in higher education in Canada and the United States and universities located in partnership countries (Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya). Examples abound, and possibilities appear immense.
However, what is needed for these programs to succeed is to have a shared vision of the Diaspora role. By shared vision, we mean agreement among all stakeholders (home institution, government agency and Diaspora sponsoring NGO or the governmental agency) on the role of the Diaspora professional and deliverables. Each stakeholder has specific roles and responsibilities in this process, and they need to be articulated and agreed upon at the outset. This approach will clear any potential confusion about the role of Diaspora in their home country when joint programs are implemented.
Given the vision, modalities for Diaspora participation can be worked out. Areas of collaborations range from short-term research and teaching visitations to co-organization of workshops and seminars as well as co-supervision of master and doctoral level students. Since the growth and diffusion of information and computing technology has been very rapid, many of the collaborative activities can take place at a distance on-line. However, accurate data are necessary to correctly match the skill sets needed in the home country universities and Diaspora expertise available. The government of Nepal and Nepali embassies located in target countries can play a significant role in making the data on Diaspora available. Nepali embassies can also serve as the bridges between Diaspora professionals and home country universities.
Existing universities in Nepal with the exception of Tribhuvan University (TU) are relatively young. Faculty research and student training at the master’s and doctoral levels are necessary components of a modern university. As both activities are resource-intensive, and young universities in Nepal lack required resources, the Nepali universities can greatly benefit from the Diaspora support to effectively design and implement research activities.
Governments of developed countries and international organizations such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UN agencies have been providing support for higher educational activities in Nepal. The donors have tried their best to influence the system of higher education. In fact, Nepal has experimented with three modalities or regimes of higher education system since the independence of the country from the Rana rulers: centralization, decentralization, and privatization. For each of these regimes to become viable and remain functional, external assistance was needed. While the earlier regimes were introduced mostly with American aid, the latest regime of privatization has been the result of assistance, both in terms of advice and resources, from the World Bank. One of the problems of such assistance is that the donor dictates the terms of the trade. Such terms can sometimes go against the national interest of Nepal. However, the Diaspora members know Nepal well and have emotional attachment to the native country, thereby creating a more beneficial mutual relationship.
The focus of this conference was to bring different ideas together, discuss on them and exchange the outcomes with the Nepali counterparts in Nepal to develop and advance human capital in Nepal. Since universities are the main conduit of knowledge creation and dissemination of the scientific knowledge, this conference highlighted possible pathways for Diaspora contribution towards advancing teaching, creating more up-to-date curriculum, and supporting research activities in Nepal’s universities.
The disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Nepal, and particularly women and Dalits, face grave... more The disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Nepal, and particularly women and Dalits, face grave hurdles to acquire post secondary education. Lack of educational access has deprived the rural and marginalized groups of opportunities to realize their full potential as citizens. Further, the larger society is not able to utilize the potential contribution of all citizens for socio-economic development. NRNA and CFFN are proposing to support the establishment of an Open University in Nepal which by creating an open admission process can substantially improve the educational access for the disadvantaged groups. The Government of Nepal has already initiated the planning to establish such a university. The government has also carried out the initial scoping for this project and clear need is well established for such an institution. NRNA and CFFN wish to provide solid collaborative services. This paper provides an assessment of need for an Open University of Nepal and discusses several a...
Every switching operation in a power substation must be executed after proper evaluation of its c... more Every switching operation in a power substation must be executed after proper evaluation of its consequence. Often, switching actions for various operating conditions and contingencies are pre-determined by using the control engineer'sknowledge and previous experience. When needed, these actions are carried out by either a computer or an operator. However, it is difficult for an operator to know all the operating conditions and contingencies in advance. An on line decision-making tool can provide an operator with the most appropriate switching decisions for the present system configuration and system state so the continuity and quality of power supply can be maintained by implementing those switching decisions. Since the circuit configuration varies from one substation to another, such decision making tools developed for one substation may not be applicable to another substation. This thesis presents a technique to design digital computer based substation switching schemes. The ...
IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, 2006. (WiMob'2006), 2006
AbstractMobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-less networks where network topology ... more AbstractMobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-less networks where network topology changes very frequently and routing is not a trivial task. OLSR is a link-state routing algorithm that is optimized to reduce the communication overhead by reducing the ...
AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, 2010
Abstract뾗he anti-jam advantages of higher carrier frequencies for different applications and the ... more Abstract뾗he anti-jam advantages of higher carrier frequencies for different applications and the necessity for wider information bandwidths have led system designers to look for operational frequencies above Ku band in order to support their next generation of communications ...
AbstractPrediction of channel characteristics can be of im-mense value in improving the quality ... more AbstractPrediction of channel characteristics can be of im-mense value in improving the quality of signals in high frequency satellite communication channels. Making prediction of rainfall rate (RR) using Markovian theory is the object of this paper. The paper also describes an ...
Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1996
Substations differ greatly in their configurations, sizes and importance. Substation switching sc... more Substations differ greatly in their configurations, sizes and importance. Substation switching schemes are, therefore, designed and developed separately for each substation. This paper describes a digital computer based substation switching scheme that can be employed in different configurations of substations. The scheme is applicable to substations of all practical configurations. It also considers factors such as, generation and load balance,
IEEE WESCANEX 95. Communications, Power, and Computing. Conference Proceedings, 1995
Page 1. 30 IEEE WESCANEX '95 PROCEEDINGS .A COMPUTER-BASED SUBSTATION SWITCHING SCHEME P... more Page 1. 30 IEEE WESCANEX '95 PROCEEDINGS .A COMPUTER-BASED SUBSTATION SWITCHING SCHEME Pramod Dhaka1 M.SI. Sachdev Power Systems Research Group Department of Electrical Engineering University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada ...
Modern thoughts have considered three independent faculties in governance: Legislative, Executive... more Modern thoughts have considered three independent faculties in governance: Legislative, Executive and Judicial. The ancient philosophers, however, seem to have been more advanced than us in discovering the fourth faculty in governance on top of these three. This article picks up on that ancient wisdom to propose a system of governance with four independent faculties: executive, judicial, legislative, and innovative.
Summary of the conference: Role of Nepali Diaspora in Higher Education in Nepal, 2019
The ongoing international migration from developing countries to developed ones has led to a larg... more The ongoing international migration from developing countries to developed ones has led to a large presence of Diaspora population in developed countries. Many of those well-educated and established professionals and businessmen have felt a need to give back to their home countries. The impact of Diaspora in their home country has been realized mainly in four different areas: economic development through remittance, investment and trade; intellectual development via knowledge transfer and knowledge application; social development through philanthropy and volunteerism; and political development via diplomacy, lobbying, awareness raising and political participation.
Diaspora giving back mechanisms have deployed various programs. Such programs are often initiated by individuals, non-governmental organizations, and governments of developed countries. For example, Academics Without Borders is a Canadian NGO; it is a new but effective program. It uses a train-the-trainer model to build capacity of the host institution with an enduring impact. Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nations (TOKTEN) was designed by the United Nations to help developing countries bring talents home. UNESCO, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, has a program to provide grid computing technology to promote collaboration between home country academics and Diaspora professionals. The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows program facilitates short-term exchange program between Africa born academics working in higher education in Canada and the United States and universities located in partnership countries (Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya). Examples abound, and possibilities appear immense.
However, what is needed for these programs to succeed is to have a shared vision of the Diaspora role. By shared vision, we mean agreement among all stakeholders (home institution, government agency and Diaspora sponsoring NGO or the governmental agency) on the role of the Diaspora professional and deliverables. Each stakeholder has specific roles and responsibilities in this process, and they need to be articulated and agreed upon at the outset. This approach will clear any potential confusion about the role of Diaspora in their home country when joint programs are implemented.
Given the vision, modalities for Diaspora participation can be worked out. Areas of collaborations range from short-term research and teaching visitations to co-organization of workshops and seminars as well as co-supervision of master and doctoral level students. Since the growth and diffusion of information and computing technology has been very rapid, many of the collaborative activities can take place at a distance on-line. However, accurate data are necessary to correctly match the skill sets needed in the home country universities and Diaspora expertise available. The government of Nepal and Nepali embassies located in target countries can play a significant role in making the data on Diaspora available. Nepali embassies can also serve as the bridges between Diaspora professionals and home country universities.
Existing universities in Nepal with the exception of Tribhuvan University (TU) are relatively young. Faculty research and student training at the master’s and doctoral levels are necessary components of a modern university. As both activities are resource-intensive, and young universities in Nepal lack required resources, the Nepali universities can greatly benefit from the Diaspora support to effectively design and implement research activities.
Governments of developed countries and international organizations such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UN agencies have been providing support for higher educational activities in Nepal. The donors have tried their best to influence the system of higher education. In fact, Nepal has experimented with three modalities or regimes of higher education system since the independence of the country from the Rana rulers: centralization, decentralization, and privatization. For each of these regimes to become viable and remain functional, external assistance was needed. While the earlier regimes were introduced mostly with American aid, the latest regime of privatization has been the result of assistance, both in terms of advice and resources, from the World Bank. One of the problems of such assistance is that the donor dictates the terms of the trade. Such terms can sometimes go against the national interest of Nepal. However, the Diaspora members know Nepal well and have emotional attachment to the native country, thereby creating a more beneficial mutual relationship.
The focus of this conference was to bring different ideas together, discuss on them and exchange the outcomes with the Nepali counterparts in Nepal to develop and advance human capital in Nepal. Since universities are the main conduit of knowledge creation and dissemination of the scientific knowledge, this conference highlighted possible pathways for Diaspora contribution towards advancing teaching, creating more up-to-date curriculum, and supporting research activities in Nepal’s universities.
The disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Nepal, and particularly women and Dalits, face grave... more The disadvantaged and marginalized groups in Nepal, and particularly women and Dalits, face grave hurdles to acquire post secondary education. Lack of educational access has deprived the rural and marginalized groups of opportunities to realize their full potential as citizens. Further, the larger society is not able to utilize the potential contribution of all citizens for socio-economic development. NRNA and CFFN are proposing to support the establishment of an Open University in Nepal which by creating an open admission process can substantially improve the educational access for the disadvantaged groups. The Government of Nepal has already initiated the planning to establish such a university. The government has also carried out the initial scoping for this project and clear need is well established for such an institution. NRNA and CFFN wish to provide solid collaborative services. This paper provides an assessment of need for an Open University of Nepal and discusses several a...
Every switching operation in a power substation must be executed after proper evaluation of its c... more Every switching operation in a power substation must be executed after proper evaluation of its consequence. Often, switching actions for various operating conditions and contingencies are pre-determined by using the control engineer'sknowledge and previous experience. When needed, these actions are carried out by either a computer or an operator. However, it is difficult for an operator to know all the operating conditions and contingencies in advance. An on line decision-making tool can provide an operator with the most appropriate switching decisions for the present system configuration and system state so the continuity and quality of power supply can be maintained by implementing those switching decisions. Since the circuit configuration varies from one substation to another, such decision making tools developed for one substation may not be applicable to another substation. This thesis presents a technique to design digital computer based substation switching schemes. The ...
IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, 2006. (WiMob'2006), 2006
AbstractMobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-less networks where network topology ... more AbstractMobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-less networks where network topology changes very frequently and routing is not a trivial task. OLSR is a link-state routing algorithm that is optimized to reduce the communication overhead by reducing the ...
AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, 2010
Abstract뾗he anti-jam advantages of higher carrier frequencies for different applications and the ... more Abstract뾗he anti-jam advantages of higher carrier frequencies for different applications and the necessity for wider information bandwidths have led system designers to look for operational frequencies above Ku band in order to support their next generation of communications ...
AbstractPrediction of channel characteristics can be of im-mense value in improving the quality ... more AbstractPrediction of channel characteristics can be of im-mense value in improving the quality of signals in high frequency satellite communication channels. Making prediction of rainfall rate (RR) using Markovian theory is the object of this paper. The paper also describes an ...
Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1996
Substations differ greatly in their configurations, sizes and importance. Substation switching sc... more Substations differ greatly in their configurations, sizes and importance. Substation switching schemes are, therefore, designed and developed separately for each substation. This paper describes a digital computer based substation switching scheme that can be employed in different configurations of substations. The scheme is applicable to substations of all practical configurations. It also considers factors such as, generation and load balance,
IEEE WESCANEX 95. Communications, Power, and Computing. Conference Proceedings, 1995
Page 1. 30 IEEE WESCANEX '95 PROCEEDINGS .A COMPUTER-BASED SUBSTATION SWITCHING SCHEME P... more Page 1. 30 IEEE WESCANEX '95 PROCEEDINGS .A COMPUTER-BASED SUBSTATION SWITCHING SCHEME Pramod Dhaka1 M.SI. Sachdev Power Systems Research Group Department of Electrical Engineering University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Canada ...
Book - Higher Education in Nepal Policies and Perspectives, 2020
A group of Nepali diaspora members, represented by the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), st... more A group of Nepali diaspora members, represented by the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA), started a campaign in 2009 to establish the Open University of Nepal (OUN) in partnership with the government of Nepal. Their motivation was to develop a quality university for the masses by mobilizing local, diaspora, and international collaborators for producing and disseminating knowledge in the public domain. The university was subsequently established in 2017 but it drifted away from many of the original objectives. Most critically, it embraced distance education as its central function while setting aside the aspiration of producing and sharing knowledge under the public domain. As the original proponents of this mission, the authors share their experiences and lessons learned so that other campaigners of similar institution building missions could benefit.
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Diaspora giving back mechanisms have deployed various programs. Such programs are often initiated by individuals, non-governmental organizations, and governments of developed countries. For example, Academics Without Borders is a Canadian NGO; it is a new but effective program. It uses a train-the-trainer model to build capacity of the host institution with an enduring impact. Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nations (TOKTEN) was designed by the United Nations to help developing countries bring talents home. UNESCO, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, has a program to provide grid computing technology to promote collaboration between home country academics and Diaspora professionals. The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows program facilitates short-term exchange program between Africa born academics working in higher education in Canada and the United States and universities located in partnership countries (Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya). Examples abound, and possibilities appear immense.
However, what is needed for these programs to succeed is to have a shared vision of the Diaspora role. By shared vision, we mean agreement among all stakeholders (home institution, government agency and Diaspora sponsoring NGO or the governmental agency) on the role of the Diaspora professional and deliverables. Each stakeholder has specific roles and responsibilities in this process, and they need to be articulated and agreed upon at the outset. This approach will clear any potential confusion about the role of Diaspora in their home country when joint programs are implemented.
Given the vision, modalities for Diaspora participation can be worked out. Areas of collaborations range from short-term research and teaching visitations to co-organization of workshops and seminars as well as co-supervision of master and doctoral level students. Since the growth and diffusion of information and computing technology has been very rapid, many of the collaborative activities can take place at a distance on-line. However, accurate data are necessary to correctly match the skill sets needed in the home country universities and Diaspora expertise available. The government of Nepal and Nepali embassies located in target countries can play a significant role in making the data on Diaspora available. Nepali embassies can also serve as the bridges between Diaspora professionals and home country universities.
Existing universities in Nepal with the exception of Tribhuvan University (TU) are relatively young. Faculty research and student training at the master’s and doctoral levels are necessary components of a modern university. As both activities are resource-intensive, and young universities in Nepal lack required resources, the Nepali universities can greatly benefit from the Diaspora support to effectively design and implement research activities.
Governments of developed countries and international organizations such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UN agencies have been providing support for higher educational activities in Nepal. The donors have tried their best to influence the system of higher education. In fact, Nepal has experimented with three modalities or regimes of higher education system since the independence of the country from the Rana rulers: centralization, decentralization, and privatization. For each of these regimes to become viable and remain functional, external assistance was needed. While the earlier regimes were introduced mostly with American aid, the latest regime of privatization has been the result of assistance, both in terms of advice and resources, from the World Bank. One of the problems of such assistance is that the donor dictates the terms of the trade. Such terms can sometimes go against the national interest of Nepal. However, the Diaspora members know Nepal well and have emotional attachment to the native country, thereby creating a more beneficial mutual relationship.
The focus of this conference was to bring different ideas together, discuss on them and exchange the outcomes with the Nepali counterparts in Nepal to develop and advance human capital in Nepal. Since universities are the main conduit of knowledge creation and dissemination of the scientific knowledge, this conference highlighted possible pathways for Diaspora contribution towards advancing teaching, creating more up-to-date curriculum, and supporting research activities in Nepal’s universities.
Diaspora giving back mechanisms have deployed various programs. Such programs are often initiated by individuals, non-governmental organizations, and governments of developed countries. For example, Academics Without Borders is a Canadian NGO; it is a new but effective program. It uses a train-the-trainer model to build capacity of the host institution with an enduring impact. Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nations (TOKTEN) was designed by the United Nations to help developing countries bring talents home. UNESCO, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard, has a program to provide grid computing technology to promote collaboration between home country academics and Diaspora professionals. The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellows program facilitates short-term exchange program between Africa born academics working in higher education in Canada and the United States and universities located in partnership countries (Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya). Examples abound, and possibilities appear immense.
However, what is needed for these programs to succeed is to have a shared vision of the Diaspora role. By shared vision, we mean agreement among all stakeholders (home institution, government agency and Diaspora sponsoring NGO or the governmental agency) on the role of the Diaspora professional and deliverables. Each stakeholder has specific roles and responsibilities in this process, and they need to be articulated and agreed upon at the outset. This approach will clear any potential confusion about the role of Diaspora in their home country when joint programs are implemented.
Given the vision, modalities for Diaspora participation can be worked out. Areas of collaborations range from short-term research and teaching visitations to co-organization of workshops and seminars as well as co-supervision of master and doctoral level students. Since the growth and diffusion of information and computing technology has been very rapid, many of the collaborative activities can take place at a distance on-line. However, accurate data are necessary to correctly match the skill sets needed in the home country universities and Diaspora expertise available. The government of Nepal and Nepali embassies located in target countries can play a significant role in making the data on Diaspora available. Nepali embassies can also serve as the bridges between Diaspora professionals and home country universities.
Existing universities in Nepal with the exception of Tribhuvan University (TU) are relatively young. Faculty research and student training at the master’s and doctoral levels are necessary components of a modern university. As both activities are resource-intensive, and young universities in Nepal lack required resources, the Nepali universities can greatly benefit from the Diaspora support to effectively design and implement research activities.
Governments of developed countries and international organizations such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and UN agencies have been providing support for higher educational activities in Nepal. The donors have tried their best to influence the system of higher education. In fact, Nepal has experimented with three modalities or regimes of higher education system since the independence of the country from the Rana rulers: centralization, decentralization, and privatization. For each of these regimes to become viable and remain functional, external assistance was needed. While the earlier regimes were introduced mostly with American aid, the latest regime of privatization has been the result of assistance, both in terms of advice and resources, from the World Bank. One of the problems of such assistance is that the donor dictates the terms of the trade. Such terms can sometimes go against the national interest of Nepal. However, the Diaspora members know Nepal well and have emotional attachment to the native country, thereby creating a more beneficial mutual relationship.
The focus of this conference was to bring different ideas together, discuss on them and exchange the outcomes with the Nepali counterparts in Nepal to develop and advance human capital in Nepal. Since universities are the main conduit of knowledge creation and dissemination of the scientific knowledge, this conference highlighted possible pathways for Diaspora contribution towards advancing teaching, creating more up-to-date curriculum, and supporting research activities in Nepal’s universities.
this mission, the authors share their experiences and lessons learned so that other campaigners of similar institution building missions could benefit.