Startup Weekend Disaster Preparedness and Response
Overview :
Nepal Entrepreneurs’ Hub in embarked upon the entrepreneurial journey of organizing StartUp Weekend Disaster Preparedness and Response with the vision of revamping Nepalese economy post earthquake. Like all international Startup Weekend, the event followed the same basic model consisting of a 54 hours long ecstasy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation.
Schedule of the event was :
The winning ideas were:
- Network For NGO
- Brings Tourist Back to Nepal
- Pictogram Reference Card
Mentors
Currently Tshering is the Country Director for Childreach Nepal– a local charity works in partnership with local communities to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, and child rights and protection in Nepal. He strongly believes in Public Private Partnership and practicing Evidence Based Practice to create new knowledge while making difference. He played one of the key roles in creating and implementing Idea Studio Nepal: a platform to encourage and empower entrepreneurs to solve social and economic issues faced by the country in joint initiative of UNICEF Nepal, Kathmandu University, Meeting Point and other private companies and TV channels and also Graduate Students Research Grant, supporting 20 graduate students towards their thesis and providing supervision. Furthermore, Tshering has been selected as a 2015 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Currently Tshering is the Country Director for Childreach Nepal– a local charity works in partnership with local communities to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, and child rights and protection in Nepal. He strongly believes in Public Private Partnership and practicing Evidence Based Practice to create new knowledge while making difference. He played one of the key roles in creating and implementing Idea Studio Nepal: a platform to encourage and empower entrepreneurs to solve social and economic issues faced by the country in joint initiative of UNICEF Nepal, Kathmandu University, Meeting Point and other private companies and TV channels and also Graduate Students Research Grant, supporting 20 graduate students towards their thesis and providing supervision. Furthermore, Tshering has been selected as a 2015 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Sumnima has extensive experience in child protection issues, child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation of children, street children, trafficking in women and children, child participation and children in armed conflict. She has conducted and published various researches on the issues of child rights and child protection. She is also one of the pioneers of online child protection in Nepal. As an expert on child protection issues in Nepal, she is engaged in policy advocacy on child rights. As a founding member of CWIN-Nepal, Sumnima has been working passionately towards these causes for the past 27 years in various capacities within CWIN. She currently serves as an Executive Coordinator, overseeing overall management, supervision and monitoring of all programmes of CWIN-Nepal. Sumnima is a board member of ECPAT International representing South Asia, member of AATWIN (Alliance Against Trafficking in Women and Children) and core committee member of Women’s Network for Peace (Shanti Malika) and founder member of Women in Policy Advocacy Alliance (WlPAA).
Sumnima has extensive experience in child protection issues, child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation of children, street children, trafficking in women and children, child participation and children in armed conflict. She has conducted and published various researches on the issues of child rights and child protection. She is also one of the pioneers of online child protection in Nepal. As an expert on child protection issues in Nepal, she is engaged in policy advocacy on child rights. As a founding member of CWIN-Nepal, Sumnima has been working passionately towards these causes for the past 27 years in various capacities within CWIN. She currently serves as an Executive Coordinator, overseeing overall management, supervision and monitoring of all programmes of CWIN-Nepal. Sumnima is a board member of ECPAT International representing South Asia, member of AATWIN (Alliance Against Trafficking in Women and Children) and core committee member of Women’s Network for Peace (Shanti Malika) and founder member of Women in Policy Advocacy Alliance (WlPAA).
Mr Anil has spent the past two decades working as a conservationist, environmental leader, and senior Ashoka fellow in Nepal. An engineer by training, Anil pursued graduate work in energy planning at the University of Pennsylvania and then joined the Kathmandu municipality. His projects and organizations have received numerous awards and grants, and he is presently working to scale his work on a solar lighting system for rural villages in Nepal. He was also part of the team that implemented the National Conservation Strategy for Nepal, preserving its globally unique natural endowment. He is recipient of the prestigieus Ashoka Fellowship, the Rolex award and the Silicon Valley Tech Award. In 1993 he was recognized as one amongst 100 “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Mr Anil has spent the past two decades working as a conservationist, environmental leader, and senior Ashoka fellow in Nepal. An engineer by training, Anil pursued graduate work in energy planning at the University of Pennsylvania and then joined the Kathmandu municipality. His projects and organizations have received numerous awards and grants, and he is presently working to scale his work on a solar lighting system for rural villages in Nepal. He was also part of the team that implemented the National Conservation Strategy for Nepal, preserving its globally unique natural endowment. He is recipient of the prestigieus Ashoka Fellowship, the Rolex award and the Silicon Valley Tech Award. In 1993 he was recognized as one amongst 100 “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
- Asst. Professor of Entrepreneurship and Marketing at Kathmandu University School of Management .
- Co-Founder at Idea Studio Nepal
- Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior and Marketing Communication specialist.
- Asst. Professor of Entrepreneurship and Marketing at Kathmandu University School of Management .
- Co-Founder at Idea Studio Nepal
- Marketing Management, Consumer Behavior and Marketing Communication specialist.
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