The Foreign Aid Picture in Kyrgyzstan

In the Kyrgyzstan National Sustainable Development Strategy, the history of the yester years of the country following the collapse of the Soviet Union was well referenced as it was said to put the country in “survival mode” as the Soviet Union time was a lost opportunity for the country. The strategy does not failed to […]

Environmental Issues in Kyrgyzstan

On the Kyrgyzstan national development plan, the environment takes a new face as the overall goal of the country is to protect environment favourable for living in a context of economic growth. According to the Environmental Performance Index of 2012, the country is said to take on the position of 101 which makes them to […]

Corruption and revolution, the historical context of corruption in Kyrgyzstan

Cases of corruption and revolution are the norms in the history of Kyrgyzstan as it was seen of the history of the country. In March 24th, 2005, President Akayev deserted his post shortly after the Tulip Revolution that began after the parliamentary elections of February 27th and March 13th, 2005. The revolution was as a […]

Let us talk about Kyrgyz

Kyrgyzstan which is also known as the Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked country with mountainous terrain which is located in Central Asia. The official language of the country is Russian and it runs a unitary parliamentary system of government with a president and prime minister. The capital city of the country is Bishkek and the […]

“Technological Threat” animation short 1988 Academy Award nominee

This is a relic of the past which plainly tell the tale of how the systems are replacing humans and sadly, some of this prediction is coming alive already with the rise of the machines. Humans can be visionaries and predict the future truly.

Closer Yet Farther Away

The gang-up of the social media on humans through the use of cognitive and additive psychology. I have once been here and I know how relieved I am on deleting facebook App.

Though I am still struggling with Whatsapp as I used it to communicate with my team. God knows I would have deleted that devil.

The designing of a habit-forming product is no longer new in technology as a book was even written on it named “Hooked” by Nir Eyal.

We are all hooked, just like the word that Nir used for it. The best way to know how to get unhooked is to really know how one becomes hooked.

I found myself arguing on how technology has kept us in distance, and then – despite being a technologist, I am further away from it always.

Stop the Endless Scroll. Delete Social Media From Your Phone

Drawing Some Random Ellipse With Different Colors on Processing

void setup () { size (600,600); smooth (); noFill (); strokeWeight(5); frameRate (10); } void draw () { float x = random(width); float y = random (height); float d = random (30,300); stroke (random(255), random (201), random (120)); ellipse (x, y, d, d); }

Illusion of Progress – International Development

For heads of state, celebrity activists, and heralded intellectuals—the agenda setters whose Powerpoints prescribe the policy goals—the distance from reality is even more profound than for low-level consultants like me. For these notables, new hotels and traffic lights are constructed in anticipation of their visits, creating an illusion of progress. To be part of this […]

Problem of International Development Projects

By definition, international development projects have narrow objectives, shortlived, and are not institutionalized. “Even though we know better” Harlan Cleveland said half a century ago,“ we are still tackling twenty-year problems with five-year plans based on two-year personnel working with one-year appropriations. All too frequently projects are also determined less by what countries need than […]

UN Fetishness

Over the nine weeks of the UN’s founding conference in San Francisco, participants consumed seventy-eight tons—a half-million sheets—of paper per day, propelling a fetish that led Canada’s Lester Pearson, an early leader of the United Nations, to describe that organization in as“drowning in its own words and suffocating in its own documents.”

The Speech That Changed International Development

Harry Truman Inaugural Address of January 1949, that single speech that changed the outlook of International Development and the Involvement of the USA in it.

Harry Truman 1949 Inaugural Lecture That Started the International Development

This inaugural lecture has 4 points as below; 1. we will continue to give unfaltering support to the United Nations and related agencies, and we will continue to search for ways to strengthen their authority and increase their effectiveness. 2.we will continue our programs for world economic recovery. 3. we will strengthen freedom-loving nations against […]