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National-level policy-makers should know how to use the potential of information and communication technologies (ICT) to help people find training and jobs, increase their employability, and develop their competences.
With the growth and expansion in the domestic and international market, competition has increased rigorously. The rise of IT industry as a prominent leader in the market has definitely paved the way for various opportunities; however, the growth requires persistent quality among professionals working in that sector. As well, continuous development requires continuous creation of new knowledge and upgrading of existing knowledge.
There is a need for a special ACT under the banner of “Institutions of special importance” backed by a special budget for generating talents in all sectors through Human capital building program specially in high revenue generating sectors like IT industries. Institute of National Importance (INI) is a status that may be conferred on a premier public higher education institution by an act of Parliament of Nepal for such institution which "serves as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled personnel within the specified region of the country/state". Institutes of National Importance should receive special recognition, higher autonomy, and funding from the Government of Nepal. I had been pressurizing this issue in the concerned ministry and National planning commision (NPC) since early 1980s however the NPCl never made decision this issue in national priory. Adequate budget should trickle down to munispality , ward and youth clubs levels in order to promote such issues.
There is serious need of engagging professionals for working on systematic approaches and methods for providing accurate and reliable information related to IT careers by providing resources for regular research, and surveys and performing market analysis to determine the scope, market demands, benefits, and career development tree for developing IT industry in Nepal.
Schools should promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs by engaging concerned stakeholders including guardians at school level. It is about expanding the future. Historically girls amd women are under represented in STEM fields. Indusries world wide are encouraging girls and women to persue STEM highlighting female role models. STEAM is related global education movementthat which also promotes the ART such as humanities. music arts, language arts, visual arts and Design. STEAM promotes creative process and scientific concept. It has job security and growing demand.
Three kinds of job Robots have hard time replacing. It cannot do blue colored jobs that are non repetitive. Robots cannot hammer a nail, they cannot pick a garbage, they cannot fix a toilet. Robots cannot do immmotional jobs . For example it cannot be a professor, teacher, councelor, therapists etc. Robots cannot do imagination part. People who are innovator, leader, strategizer, dreamer about the future. These jobs cannot be replaced. Once any one who fit into these categories one will have job in the long time.
news on our devices in our school and healthcare systems even in our homes artificial intelligence machine learning robots chat bots another bot I and machines can definitely do some things better than us but doesn't make them smarter and robots should take over some jobs changed others make them simpler change the way that we think about things or
we can connect them do real stuff together and then there is talk about when a I becomes a smart or smarter than us
futurists and he has consistently predicted 2029 that is only 11 years from now as the year when AI will be a smart as us and he has set the date of 2045 for the singularity which is when we multiply our effective intelligence a billion fold by merging it with the intelligence that we have created
how we power our future now I firmly believe that we need to use the best from both some it's and that we need to be in control
we need to define what success looks like based on our collective values and set the parameters and decide what we actually allow machines to do we need to create that real connection between people and
technology
STEAM now technology is going to impact all of us a young man with quadriplegia who is blind who's gaining his independence now by using series to connect socially and romantically and isn't fantastic when we learn that we can improve the accuracy of cancer diagnosis to 99.5% but combining our ability to recognise force positives with the machines capacity to find those hard to spot cases its not without challenges take the scientist Cathy Laird challenges what she calls blind faith in big data to illustrate she talks about a case for an algorithm for recruitment that was meant to address issues with diversity but it was based on the same definition of success the same parameters and the same data set so they continue to recruit the same kind of people that are backed by the current culture and bias she calls for quality control and account best around all algorithms and then there is technology ethnographer attrition trigger warning who immersed herself in the culture and she found beyond the through all her qualitative research that most young Chinese people aspired to have a smartphone she took this to Nokia ignored it because it wasn't big data do you have any Nokia phones in the room today maybe they should have listened to those human insights to inform the algorithms among this
robots and the AI fault leaders are calling for AI safety do we need it who am I that was programmed to do something devastating like autonomous weapons and warfare and then there is a I that was programmed to do something beneficial and then it develops destructive behave methods of getting there like for example if you ask an obedient intelligent car to go to the airport as fast as possible it might do that but you might not expect the consequences now there is another side to get ugly too and its really don't hear that much about but it could have died consequences and
The lack of diversity in the teams that build these technologies is a lot more than gender balance
I found a lot of images of young men with computers a few young women some people from different cultural backgrounds a couple of older guys but there no women of no images of women over 40 so basically I and the rest of the wise women in the industry are invisible
it makes me sad when I started computer science 35 years ago had 15% girls in my ear and it was on the rise in my first job I was the only female programmer profession joined by others and gets caught in the 90s there was almost 30% women in key roles in the technology business unfortunately there has been a backward strand and today
I recently met a young woman who is doing her second year computer science and she had not made any other girls in any of her classes but always like this khastour is back to 1840 that's nearly 200 years ago either loveless is considered by many to be the first ever computer programmer and we will forward to the 1940s most of the countries where women women were actively recruited to program key machines like this USA army eniac
and if you seen the movie hidden figures we follow the journeys of free trail blazing women of colour who are employed by NASA they plotted the launch and landing of the first man to orbit to themselves to program and took over the entire programming department so what's happened in the industry a lot of things but it around the 70s there was a realization that programming and software would probably have a bigger impact on the future then what part where it so there's been a power play and women have been discouraged from entering the industry and those who are in the industry often feel alienated and end of living and this wasn't helped by the emergence of the personal computer and gaming in natives which was a pizza lot more to young boys and men who then got an approach in in work and study so the girls felt left out
We get our kids to do STEM subjects that science technology engineering and maths skills of the future no doubt we all need to understand technology in the stand age but don't all need to be programmers evidence of
showed diverse multi skilled teams are much more effective at delivering solutions that work on time so you need a new approach to shift the way we do things anyway to power our future we need to bring in the skills from the arts and humanities into the STEM landscape to create the right kind of fuel STEM plus arts
If we want to built technologies that are humane and meaningful and solve real world problems we need not only the deep technical expertise we need compassion for the user critical thinking design languages quality deep understanding of any subject matter and a collaborative mindset these are skills that on general see that the core of STEM their parts of the arts and the humanities and often attract the more diverse that are so important for change and transformation as we grapple with the infiltration of technology influencing our everyday decisions it becomes even more important to get that diversity in STEAM power was a catalyst for the first industrial revolution see this new kind of STEAM to power our future and underpin the technologies we create so how do we power up this theme we need role models of the last few years
The number of people in my industry opt for more colourful approach . We did the more visible easy to spot of highly respected many of these people come from non tech background so they are kind of opening the door and forging their way
I will do everything in my power to stay visible and be a role model It is absolutely critical that we all do because one of the biggest inhibitors of change is that you cannot be what you cannot see so if we have a more colourful confident group of people have different of all ages genders abilities and cultures then we showcase this the options and the potential there are so essential to drive change in the workplace in the community
Many of us have been inspired by teachers or mentors that we've come across on our journeys they have been fundamental to our beliefs about ourselves and the world around us
In IIT K I had the most fantastic teacher who looked at all been in the visuals and brought us back together to collaboratively assess that everybody benefited and my team and I got to build a solar cooker from cardboard and all fall we showcased it at the annual town fair frying eggs on the top science prize what a friend you know I still have that scientific calculator it was a big influencer in me choosing a career in technology
I believe that every child deserves experiences like this to show them the options and help them carve their part and Most educated try to give the children the mindset and their tools to achieve this but there was no face with a new set of challenges that we need to address now before we go full STEAM ahead firstly they have to assess academic capabilities based on really rigid frameworks and then they have the message that they said to satisfy school administrators now this takes focus and time away from the students and can resolve in teaching the old ways rather than new skills such as critical thinking or questioning the second layer children to grow up to that it don't even know where world without technology and I have a whole new set of expectations despite every desire an intent to stay on top most teachers struggle to juggle the time between student interaction and upskilling themselves
A former student who was going through some struggles and needed to get a job fair the next day not only did she take her there and look after the baby she started a crowdfunding campaign for them you know this is the kind of unselfish action that I see from so many of our educators when they students pass or present struggle for whatever reason that there whether it is expected or not our educators have a significant impact on who we become and we need to support them and recognise them and give them the systems and time to stay on top and be current and be the leading learners they sell naturally are this teachers day despite all the challenges they still inspire at the first and inclusive world that values all kinds of skills evenly and they are crucial to building the scene we need to power our future I have a dream every little boy girl wake up in the morning and think I can do anything and when they do that anything we are proud we urge them forward we support them to be themselves
I have a dream where machine and human intelligence go ahead and hand to create a more connected world and in that world our collective values are at the core of everything that we build so let's build a STEAM engine and go on a journey together it's a journey where we celebrate differences because we realised that our little differences of what makes the world go round and if we want to shape our future we need people with different skills and experiences and perspectives
It's a journey that values arts and STEM equally and it follows into STEAM before we reach singularity you know as we storm into this 4th industrial revolution where we are merging our physical digital and biological spheres into what's been termed as the cyber physical systems.
We need this new kind of STEAM with diversity and inclusion so much more underpin over technologies we create to make sure their human and meaningful and to create a positive future and power a positive future for everybody feels welcome and valued wake up every morning to inspire and empower people around so that we together can create a more connected world world possibly powered by scheme our future needs.