‘लाहमो’ जस्तो Can Infotech !!!

CAN Infotech 2007, has been an overly charmed destination for aspiring enthusiasts to visit once a year to what changes have been brought in techworld. It’s our misfortune that we are shown with third class technology, most of the time. I don’t deny that there may be very few exceptions but it’s reality that whereever we go, to the masses, it’s always the aged products. So, to my eyes, Nepal is small beautiful country where technology lands so last.

What i feel is , big entrepreneurs who have jumped to IT business, creates hypes among the customers as we are going to believe what they say. At least for someone like me , they can’t fool. These big fishes are trying to make money out of newbie customers with overwhelmingly confusing tech jargons. If i go deeproot, somewhere they can’t answer what i asked or they remain clueless. Nepalese are fools and they can be fooled and looted. That’s how they think.  I’m not against the show(s) like this. But their vision is not clear. They talk something else and work otherway.
Now, what is the meaning of “New Nepal, E-Nepal?” Till date, i never knew country’s name tagged that way. We are far behind what we are supposed to be. And , when we see the slogans, it feels like we’re right ’second’ after the silicon valley. ‘E-Nepal’!!! huh.. So, this way they create hype. This is bullshit. They might come up with something sensitive slogan which describes our current condition and try to be more sensible.

I don’t know how true they are in previous years that visitors number exceeded more than 3 lakhs. They are expecting more visitors than last yearsm,this time. So, why are they counting on numbers? I think they surely want more crowds and wants to show the most happening event in town. Lets assume, approx. 3 lakhs would visit paying average of 50 Rupees, it’s summed up figure would be somewhere near 1 crore 50 lakh rupees. They gather money from the stalls,both useful and useless stalls. So, where do all those money go? Where is the affordable technology we are expecting? where are the infrastructures? Where is the job placement for IT graduate? Why can’t they put pressure on government? Are we all so sluggish that it take years and years to progress?

I want to blame noone. It’s my feelings that there are lots of liars on those stalls, who do things what they don’t tell, and don’t do anything what they claim so confidently during events like these. It is somewhat cocktail(khichadi). Last year, i saw some models on ramp carrying some sort of newest gadgets. It’s fascinating. Most of the poor Nepalese can’t afford such tech-gadgets. For them it’s ” aakash ko fal, ankha tari mal”. I must say, it’s so ironical. Why can’t they focus on Nepalese context?

I think, this year also, it’s same old thing like in previous years with unnoticeable upgrades on those products. Nothing New, same old thing albeit for cheaper price(aged products). They’ll show Big screen  LCD monitors, MFDs,mini-size high storage devices, multimedia,processors,ergonomy,latest trendy entertainment gadgets,security devices etc with more or less features. Things are getting compact more and more but in the contrary it’s getting more and more pricy too. It’s okay to get in touch with the latest trend but we should be able to focus on country’s priority too. Technology must invade even poors living. Even farmer should know what ‘SMS’ is. These big corporates are just centered around cities because they can dig more money out of it.