I mostly write about my research on civil society organizations.
Billions of dollars flow into Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) each year, but there are important gaps in our understanding of how these funds are put to use. One interesting area is the location choice of NGOs and the factors that underpin those decisions. Nepal presents an interesting case study, as it has experienced rapid growth in …
(This post was written on November 20, 2016) Does this title sound familiar? You are right! the title of this post is inspired by this TED Talk of Tim Urban. As Urban discusses during the talk, the “ingenious idea” of writing this blog came when I have a tomorrow noon deadline to submit a paper and …
The 13th ISTR International Conference in Amsterdam was a very productive encounter for me. I had attended two Asia Pacific editions of the conference in Tokyo (2015) and Jakarta (2017). However, I was attending the international conference for the first time. I was not only new to the conference, but also Amsterdam was the first …
(Note: I wrote this post in November 20, 2016 to document my one year-long learning at Wedu. This has been in the draft for long) I completed my first year working with Wedu and here I present the five things I’ve learned: 1. Spreadsheet Skills: Trust me, I learned so much of spreadsheet skills in the …
I started blogging back in September 2007 with Blogspot and abandoned my blog since September last year. There are two simple reasons why I stopped. In this post, I will explore those two reasons and end with a call for your help to hold me accountable. 1. Lazy: I have this not ‘so unique‘ and proud characteristic. …
Finally got a free day to work on some interesting info again. This time I was curious to know the Female Youth Literacy Rate in ASEAN Member Nations. With a few clicks, i could easily export data from The World Bank’s data repository. Youth (15-24) literacy rate (%). Female is the number of females age …
I have decided to create one more data visualization using the data published in the latest Human Freedom Index report. Human Freedom Index, by Ian Vásquez and Tanja Porčnik is Co-published by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Germany. You can grab …
I spend this weekend to create heatmap of NGOs affiliated with Social Welfare Council in Nepal between 2034-70 BS. I used the data from Social Welfare Council of Nepal. I wanted to see the concentration of these organizations in the map of Nepal and the result was surprising. Some insights: Largest number of NGOs are registered in Kathmandu …
I am preparing for my plenary presentation to be delivered at the College of Law at Nihon University during the 9th ISTR Asia Pacific Conference. One of the statistics that I needed for the presentation was the number of Registered NGOs in Nepal. So, I quickly browsed the site of Social Welfare Council of Nepal to get the number. …
Emergence of e-Radios like iTunes and Pandora has threatened the existence of conventional radio. When even the commercial radio stations are facing a threat and challenge for the survival. It was a wonderful opportunity for me to visit KUOW and understand how the private, not for profit radio is operating and coping with the challenges …