Monday, May 30, 2011

Mahabir Pun of Myagdi, Nepal bags prestigious Magsaysay award

Mahabir Pun of Myagdi bags prestigious Magsaysay award
Mahabir Pun: 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership.




Mahabir Pun of Myagdi, western Nepal, has bagged the prestigious Raman Magsaysay Awards, for Community Leadership.

The Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) Tuesday announced that seven Asians bagged this year's Raman Magsaysay Awards, the Asian Equivalent of Nobel Prize.

Pun is among three Chinese, a Korean, an Indian and a Pilipino to receive the coveted award.

According to the RMAF, Pun, 52, is “recognised for his innovative application of wireless computer technology in Nepal, bringing progress to remote mountain areas by connecting his village to the global village”.

Pun is the fourth Nepali to receive the Magsaysay award. He will receive the award amid a ceremony in Manila on August 31.

Here is Pun's profile:

Nangi Village, where Mahabir Pun was born, rests high in the Himalayan foothills of western Nepal. Here and in surrounding Myagdi District live the Pun Magar, whose men have soldiered for generations across the globe as Gurkhas. Yet, their worldly careers have done little to change their sleepy homeland, so far from the traffic patterns that knit together the rest of the world. Indeed, Nangi is seven hours' hard climb from the nearest road. No telephone lines have ever reached it. Despite this, these days the people of Nangi are definitely connected to the world outside. Wireless Internet technology has made this possible. Mahabir Pun has made it happen.

Pun passed his boyhood grazing cattle and sheep in mountain pastures and attending a village school that had no paper or pencils or books. Wanting more for his son, Pun's father moved the family to Nepal's lowlands, where, in Chitwan, Pun finished high school and became a teacher, working for twelve years to help his younger siblings through school. Finally, a timely scholarship led him to a bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Then, in 1992, after more than twenty years away, Pun returned home to Nangi, determined to make things easier for other youths than they had been for him.

Nangi's leaders were busy establishing a village high school. Pun eagerly joined in. Once a month, he made the two-day trip to the nearest major town of Pokhara to check his e-mail and maintain his links to friends abroad. This led, in 1997, to the donation of four used computers from Australia. Powering them with hydro generators in a nearby stream, Pun began teaching computer classes at the high school. More computers followed, but it proved impossible to get a telephone connection to Pokhara and the Internet.

Pun e-mailed the British Broadcasting Corporation, asking for ideas. In 2001, the BBC publicized his dilemma and within a year volunteers from Europe and the United States were helping him rig a wireless connection between Nangi and the neighboring village of Ramche, using TV dish antennas mounted in trees. Some small grants soon led to the construction of improvised mountaintop relay stations and a link to Pokhara. By 2003, Nangi was online.

As word of Pun's project bounced around the World Wide Web, backpacking volunteers carried more and more donated computers, parts, and equipment into the hills. Meanwhile, Pun expanded the wireless network to embrace twelve villages-distributing a hundred computers to local schools, connecting them to the Internet, teaching teachers how to use them, and then tinkering and troubleshooting until everything worked.

Today, connectivity is changing Myagdi. Using the district's "tele-teaching" network, good teachers in one school now instruct students in others. Doctorless villagers use Wi-Fi to consult specialists in Pokhara. Village students surf the Net and are learning globe-savvy skills. Pun himself is using the Web to e-market local products such as honey, teas, and jams and to draw paying trekkers to campsites that he has outfitted with solar-powered hot showers. In parallel projects, villagers in Nangi have themselves added a library, a health clinic, and new classrooms for the high school.

Pun, now fifty-two, is both self-effacing and charismatic. "I'm not in charge of anything," he says. Yet, he seems to be the driving force of much around him. Eventually, he says, the people of Myagdi District will have to carry on for themselves. In the meantime, he hopes to play his unique role indefinitely. "As long as I can walk," Pun says happily, "I can do this."

In electing Mahabir Pun to receive the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, the board of trustees recognizes his innovative application of wireless computer technology in Nepal, bringing progress to remote mountain areas by connecting his village to the global village.

(Source: Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation)

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who does't have the power to say yes.

Friday, May 27, 2011

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Friday, May 20, 2011

HISTORY OF COMPUTER IN NEPAL

· In 2018 BS an electronic calculator called "Facit" was used for census.
· In 2028 BS census IBM 1401 a second generation mainframe computer was used.
· In 2031 BS a center for Electronic Data Processing ,Later renamed to National Computer Center(NCC),was established for national data processing and computer training.
· In 2038 BS ICL 2950/10 a second generation mainframe computer was used for census.

Source:http://www.aakarpost.com/2007/08/history-of-computer-in-nepal_29.html

Who is the father of Digital Computer?

Who is the father of Digital Computer?
ans. John Vincent Atanasoff (1903 - 1995)

Robert Frost

Education is the ability to almost anything without losing your temper of your self-confidence.
                                                    -Robert Frost

Saturday, May 14, 2011

fiber optic network cable

In the modern era of technology, fiber optics has started to play an important role in data transfer and communication. The data transfer that happens in these cables is based upon the technology of optical networks. Light waves are encoded and modulated to send and receive data. And fiber optic patch cables play an important role in completing the end-to-end connection of systems using this technology.
First of all, let us understand what makes the optical fiber communication important. The fiber optics makes sure that certain desired properties of any communication are satisfied. And the quality that they maintain with respect to these properties makes using these network cables desirable.
Interestingly, the fiber optic patch cables require being compatible with all these properties to keep up with the network quality. So the attributes desirable of the fiber cables are also good for the patches. Some of the important properties are listed below.
Rate of data transfer: Data of high volume can easily be transferred using the optic cables. In fact, with the mainline network cables, one can transfer terabytes of data every second as done in case of the worldwide Internet exchange data. The same can be said about the fiber optic patch cables. The bandwidth of these cables is extremely high.
Speed of communication: The physical communication happens over modulated waves of light. As a result, the speed of communication is extremely fast with the fiber optic networks. One can use these networks to access real time data across the globe. The patch cables are compatible with the speed and they can transfer data at the same speed as the main network cable.
Absence of attenuation: Attenuation of signal is a critical factor in most of the networks. However, for an optical network, this is practically absent. The data can traverse along the network with no amplifier installed in the route. The patch cables also do not attenuate the data.
Accuracy of transferred data: The transfer of data takes place with a high degree of accuracy. The data suffers from practically no external hindrance. No signal coming form outside really changes anything about the data. As a result, the data transfer preserves the accuracy of information exchange. The fiber optic patch cables maintain high levels of accuracy when it comes to data transfer.
Security factors: Fiber optic patch cables are as secure as the overall optical fiber network. They are extremely difficult to break into and hence the possibility of data leaking out of the network is practically minimal.
All of the above makes using fiber optic patch cables beneficial when it comes to real life application. Make sure that you have got the right patch with the right length and aperture, and you are all set to enjoy the benefits of a secure and high speed communication.

By Noemi Limberg
Article Source: ezinearticles.com

फेसबुक डिप्रेसन

सामाजिक सञ्जालको बढ्दो प्रयोगबाट उत्पन्न हुने एक्लोपन अथवा कसैको स्वाभिमानको खराब प्रयोगबाट पनि डिप्रेसन हुन्छ। फेसबुकका शोधकर्ताहरूका अनुसार साथीबाट व्यक्त भएको खुसीको स्टयाटस, कमेन्ट, तस्बिर अपडेट, प|mेन्ड कनेक्सनका अगाडि साँचो कुराको दोस्रो रूप देखिन्छ, जसले गर्दा युवाहरूमा डिप्रेसन आउँछ। उनीहरू रमाइलोका लागि आफूले नचाहेका कुरा गर्न प्रेरित हुन्छन्। यो काममा उनीहरू के-कतिसम्म गर्न सक्छन् भन्ने कुरा अनुमान गर्न पनि गार्‍हो हुन्छ।

Source:http://www.ekantipur.com/saptahik/article/?id=4326

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Kathmandu Little Blossom Public School

Kathmandu Public School is the one of the best choice school .


"Don't limit yourself.Many people limit

themeselves to what they thinl they can do.You
can go as far as your mind lets you.What you
believe, remember, you can achieve"

                                                       - Mary Kay Ash