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AL Nepal Accountapreneur 2024 | Susil Khanal
AL Nepal Accountapreneur 2024 | Subin Shrestha and Prince Shah
AL Nepal Accountapreneur 2024 | Samundra Gurung
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Last week, Narayan Adhikari, South East Asia Lead at Accountability Lab Nepal, participated in the Bay of Bengal Conversation (BoBC) in Dhaka – a regional forum convening policymakers, scholars, journalists, and sector leaders to examine South Asia’s shifting geopolitical landscape.
...Drawing on discussions from the 2025 theme, “Rivals, Ruptures, and Realignments – Navigating Power & Purpose in a Disordered World,” Narayan highlighted the trends shaping the region:
1️⃣ Rivalries: Intensifying geopolitical competition is influencing national decisions more directly, with India-China tensions continuing to shape the strategic outlook of Nepal, Bhutan, and other smaller states.
2️⃣ Ruptures: Recent political and economic crises have exposed structural vulnerabilities across the region. Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, for example, altered mobility, remittances, and the nature of international engagement.
3️⃣ Realignments: New forms of cooperation are emerging around shared risks such as climate vulnerability and regional security, signalling a move toward more pragmatic, issue-based partnerships.
Narayan noted that these dynamics are creating a more complex environment for smaller states, where strategic foresight, adaptability, and cross-border collaboration are increasingly important.
The BoBC serves as a valuable platform for nuanced dialogue and regional exchange, offering space for diverse perspectives on how South Asia can navigate evolving geopolitical realities with clarity and purpose.
#BoBC #SouthAsia #Geopolitics #RegionalCooperation #Governance
Last week, Narayan Adhikari, South East Asia Lead at @accountlabnp, participated in the Bay of Bengal Conversation in Dhaka – a regional forum convening policymakers, scholars, journalists, and sector leaders to examine South Asia’s shifting geopolitical landscape.
Drawing on ...discussions from the 2025 theme, “Rivals, Ruptures, and Realignments – Navigating Power & Purpose in a Disordered World,” Narayan highlighted the trends shaping the region. Dynamics are creating a more complex environment for smaller states, where strategic foresight, adaptability, and cross-border collaboration are increasingly important.
The BoBC serves as a valuable platform for nuanced dialogue and regional exchange, offering space for diverse perspectives on how South Asia can navigate evolving geopolitical realities with clarity and purpose.
#BoBC #SouthAsia #Geopolitics #RegionalCooperation #Governance
Last week, Narayan Adhikari, South East Asia Lead at @accountlabnp, participated in the @BoBConversation in Dhaka – a regional forum convening policymakers, scholars, journalists, and sector leaders to examine South Asia’s shifting geopolitical landscape.
Drawing on discussions…
💡 Introducing a new AI tool to strengthen integrity in public contracting!
Together with Development Gateway, we are excited to launch a new AI-powered contract summary and analysis tool through the HackCorruption program, designed to help journalists, civil society, and the private sector ...detect red flags in procurement processes.
This open-source AI solution automates key parts of the data analysis process, identifies trends, and sheds light on the often opaque procedures of public contracting. By making procurement data more timely and accessible, the tool aims to strengthen transparency, heighten accountability, and ensure good governance in public contracting.
This matters because public procurement is one of the largest areas of government spending, accounting for nearly a third of budgets globally - approximately $10 trillion per year. Yet, despite the enormous volume of taxpayer dollars involved, procurement data remains difficult to access and even harder to analyze, contributing to an estimated 20–25% of spending lost to corruption globally, and even higher in some regions.
🔗 Read more about this open-source AI model trained to curb corruption in public contracting: https://developmentgateway.org/blog/building-useful-usable-ai-a-new-tool-to-curb-procurement-corruption/
#OpenContracting #PublicProcurement #AntiCorruption #DigitalPublicGoods #AI #AIForGood
DG, together with Accountability Lab, have launched a new AI-powered contract summary and analysis tool through the HackCorruption program, designed...
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