“I compare issues and problems of private sector here with those of abroad,” Rana said, who has been appointed as an invited member in the Investment Board, which is hosting Investment Year 2012/13 in the next fiscal year.[break]
“So far, I have been learning about the investment situation abroad and legal issues on foreign direct investment through the Internet,” she told Republica flaunting her iPhone 4 on which she checks her e-mails.
Rana said technology has made work related to research quite easy for her. “But the Internet tariff rates are quite high,” Rana, who rarely parts away from her iPad tablet, complained. “If the rates are affordable it will be accessible to more people… The regulator should do something about it.”
Rana is among the new breed of entrepreneurs who has embraced latest technology and gadgets to keep updated. Unlike entrepreneurs of the past, these people also do not hesitate to spend money on latest smartphones, laptops and tablets.
Shekhar Golchha, director of Golchha Organization, for instance, has recently purchased Samsung’s latest Galaxy S-II. On this device, he not only receives and makes calls, but also checks and sends e-mails, browses Internet and uses it to find direction especially in foreign lands.
“Searching the net on this phone is lot easier,” said Golchha, who checks news sites and updates his Facebook status using the device.
As entrepreneurs like Golchha and Rana have started relying more and more on mobile devices, they find themselves detached from traditional devices like desktop computers. But they call it a good shift as they can perform simple tasks like checking and responding to e-mails on the go, which saves a lot of time.
That’s why Suresh Kumar Karna, president of Computer Association of Nepal, likens smartphones with netbooks. “I can update myself on anything using the internet on the phone,” said Karna, who uses Apple iPhone 3.
Because of its lure, even people like Suresh Kumar Basnet, president of Nepal Chamber of Commerce, who does not consider himself tech-savvy, have started taking interest in gadgets.
Basnet, who uses iPhone 3, now performs tasks like checking e-mails, updating Facebook status and taking pictures using his Apple phone. He, however, considers the phone’s ability to take sound quality pictures as its main attraction. “Because of this I never carry my camera these days,” he said.
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