I am going to South Korea to participate in the Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit – as a blogger. This will be the second conference for me as a blogger – the first being the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace held in Manila, the Philippines earlier this year.
More than a foreign tour, what I like most about these conference is that I got to meet new people and learn from them. It was at Manila, where I met with Rebecca McKinnon of GlobalVoices and conceived the idea of NepaliVoices along with the realizing that we, as a blogger, should do something for the vibrant Nepali blogosphere.
What Nepali blogosphere, no matter how small it was, did during the direct rule of King Gyanendra is exemplary for the blogging world in understanding what blogging can do. Bloggers from China, Iran and even Singapore giving headaches to their rulers, but the role of Nepali blogs in advocacy for freedom of expression and democracy has contributed, probably only in a small scale, for the April Revolution – the mass revolt that forced the king to step down paving the way for people’s rule again.
The April Revolution is also important because it also paved the way for peace process that looks like ending the bloody insurgency. Nepali bloggers can be proud of that history – and of course, there are few bloggers like me who can really be proud of being the bloggers at that time. Sometimes, not-so-good events are opportunities.
In South Korea, I will be talking about Nepali blogosphere and the opportunities blogging provides to the citizens including the leaders. And, I hope to learn a lot of lessons from it despite the conference itself not being much about the blogging. I will share new things about blogging and the summit from South Korea if possible.
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Well, good luck!
Hope you have a good time there and come back with ideas to share with the rest of the bloggers here.
“Sometimes, not-so-good events are opportunities.” What makes events “good” or “not-so-good” is our attitude and how we deal with things. Thats my approach anyway. So here is hoping this event truns out to be a wonderful exp for you, and for us alike.
Cheers!!
Congratulation for trip.
Good luck and have a nice trip! Look forward to your on-the-spot blogging from the summit.
Congrats. You will be representing whole of nepali blogospeher there.
Best of Luck
Good luck!
I too have been blogging for a while but none has invited me. Hehehe
Aba korea ta if also I am invited I won’t go hola…. Non-veg world maa ma jasto ghaas-paat maatra khaaney lai garho parchha!
Nice opportunity…utilize it to the fullest to reach out to the people from other countries who have had similar and or different struggles.
It should provide an encouragement to other bloggers as well…good luck to all the bloggers…
Dear Acharya Jee,
Have nice time. Hope your visit will further strengthen Nepali blogosphere.
SBS
Ujjwal Jee,
Good luck!
Paribartan
NepaliVoices Ujjwal Acharya is going to South Korea to take part in Asia 21 Young Leaders Summit – as a blogger.
Namaste Ujjwalji! Have a good time in South Korea. That sounds great. Keep up the good work!
Best of luck…………………….. 🙂
Hey Boss! What’s the latest. Found out that you had actually left just yesterday… eerrrr. november 17… How about telling that three day rollercoaster schedule you have for Korea with no time to do anything else? The one you’ve been boring us with. Anyway hope you get that exclusive membership or whatever it is called which will have you going on blog trips for the next three years (I think). And Oh yea.. after you are back please please dig out those three/four blogs of mine from Blog.com.np from your archive… you’ve been promising to do it for a long long time now… So a public reminder this one is… if you don’t then i won’t listen to any of your “Korean Adventures” .. or better (or worse) I will just sing when you tell them .. And I will sing like you do..
Cheers!
Hi,
Thanks all.
I have been kept very busy by the organizers of the conference. It’s quite interesting however.
You can find something about what’s going on in the official blog of the conference at http://www.asia21youngleaders.org/blog/ and I have written a few pieces on it.
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