STEM program and my mother

Innovators around the world are encouraging young girls in STEM programmes. Our women activists should play a lead role in promoting such program. Ignorance is bliss and stupidity at it's finest. The problem with close minded people is that their mouth is always open. 

Arvind Gupta was my batchmate at IIT Kanpur. While we played in play grounds he would play with the children of Mess staff, cleaners and washermen at IIT K making them play with waste materials. Today he is a famous Tactile Learning First Eminent scientist and Padma Bhusan award winner of India. He had popularised science in the country through toys from readily available materials. Children should be encouraged to visit his sites in internet https://www.youtube.com/@arvindguptatoys  

 

Education ministry of Nepal should review education model taking advice from researhers. Activity-based learning should be the norm and students, before they can understand any concept. They need to learn to manipulate different materials. They should also assemble them, pull them apart and put them back together. students to make things with their own hands. Such program will unleash creativity and end rote learning, encourage recycling, and reduce the carbon foot prints. 

 

Math skills are considered essential to success in STEM fields.Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are widely regarded as critical to the national economy. Attracting and retaining more women in the STEM workforce will maximize innovation, creativity, and competitiveness.

Multiple factors contribute to the underrepresentation of women and girls in STEM and, therefore, multiple solutions are needed to correct the imbalance. In rural population of Nepal  the question of why so few women study and work in many STEM fields. Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Many professional organizations are available for women who work in STEM jobs. In order to help women progress in these fields, the organizations offers mentoring and coaching services, as well as advice on work-life balance issues. They also resources to educate women in the field, such as books, workshops, educational videos, and research journals. They also participate in advocacy on behalf of female STEM workers to address the key issues that impact their careers. However these organizations should review their model incorporating technology and researchers. 

Concernd stakeholders should also co-create the development of recommendations for regulating financial service providers such as fintech companies, including requiring them to fully disclose the product information and relevant risks to the general public in an appropriate way. They also should be engaged in development and implementation of national strategies and national financial education policies. Financial technology (fintech), i.e., using software, applications and digital platforms to deliver financial services to consumers and businesses through digital devices such as smartphones, are the promising tool to promote financial inclusion, i.e., access of excluded households and small firms to financial products and services.

Energy-intensive systems will increasingly find efficiency gains from digital and Web3 technologies.
THese are cloud and edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), internet of things (IoT) sensors, and blockchain technology. Adopting digital technology should be encouraged which depends not just on the availability of data, but on systems and personnek. Leader should build digital coalitions of internal and external stakeholders, to encourage willingness to digitally transform, and explain the importance of integrating digital technologies.

I have highlighted in this panel session (Nirvick Nari)  on the issue of innovation and regulation incorporating female members in the regulatory bodies. in governing structures.
I have highlighted a real incidence of the role of mother of a 14 years old girl on social media. the poor mother is not aware of the danger behind the action. Hitler allowed scientists to innovate on military aircrafts however there was no regulatory body. with female members . When the project was implemented there was no regulatory body to look into the quality check of the aircrafts and many pilots died. Behind innovations accidents happen.Behind the  Facebook innovation there's so many disasters and it is a job of the government and regulators.  Developed countries have already well regulated  bodies ,however, in a country our have so many court cases. Sapana Malla highlighted about minimum 6 cases registered in the Courts in Nepal on cyber crime.  Who will regulate well? Where are the experts?  These are the very important and critical areas the government should look into. Technology empowers citizens however there has to be a very strong regulatory body with female members.

In the panel I have also highlighted the IT  industry which can feed hungry Nepalese people. This industry is most suitable for girls and young women. This industry requires volume production of  experts. Private sector colleges and government academic institutions should go for mass production of  graduates. These are the people who will feed the industry. There should be a policy for creating such volume.  There is a bottleneck in the enrollment of graduate students in academic institutions blocking mass production  which should be regulated well for quality standards.to ensure export of  knowledge and services. This is a very good area for mass production of girls and young women for the economy of Nepal  and foreign revenue for the nation.