Good morning friends I'm so glad to be here in your meets today and I'm told that 10 colleges and schools have registered for Today's program and more are coming and I believe we are expecting 15 Institutes to be together today. So that's an excellent occasion for all of you to have Co-learning experience It is an excellent opportunity for me to reach out to the young minds And so I want to thank the college authority of that's what college for giving me this wonderful opportunity I am more privileged because today my good friend mr. Cosato at all Just stand once. Yeah He is my child good friend And also he was also an economics lecturer before both of us studied economics in shalom And we took mathematical tuition for two years because in those days Then plus two mathematics was compulsory in order to do to pursue MA economics I don't know whether these days they have the same Criteria, but we were very close and I feel privileged that he will be one of your judges for the beginning I hope and my colleague We have seen her taking photos. You will see more of her taking photos. I think but I Am privileged because my colleague and friend dr. Chico Salah. I can see her here at the moment But she has been I'm sure she has been one of the Masterminds behind a program like this. She we work together as colleagues at the entrepreneurs Association for I think over two years and we benefit that a lot from her contribution and from her leadership and so today when your the principle was speaking and reaching out to you Saying that you must Become ambitious. You must excel in the world And we cannot afford To relax we cannot be lazy I thought that's a great vision that an institute should continue to challenge the young minds Some of you are from Saint Joseph College. I'm told so I think two months back or three months back I had the opportunity to speak With Saint Joseph College students and over the years I think I have actually spoken in a lot of colleges across Nagaland There was a time when I was asked to speak in NSF programs and Nagaland College students union programs They were all good But what I found was the forecast the attention was making There are a lot of institutes where I've come to speak but a lot of times attention becomes quite sparks What I'm seeing today. I see that we have more attention There is important because for a program like this You know that another opportunity to come and learn and People like us we will give you a different perspective. We will not give you a textbook perspective and so Even though I know it is quite warm. I want to encourage you people to give your attention not just to my talk, but to the Program that is ahead of you today giving your best as our principal set and learn from each other and grow and accept when I For me, I would like to focus on something called mindset Because I have seen that mindset is the single most important factor to determine whether you are going to be successful or you are going to be a failure. I Am aware that this program is being organized by the commerce and management department and I've been advised to speak on entrepreneurship which In a good context Entrepreneurship is limited to being a short deeper and if I tell you to Become a graduate and end up as a soft deeper. I don't think that's very attractive If I tell you to become a trader where you employ 2,300 people or 1000 people that may not be too unattractive But if I tell you to become a grocery shopkeeper or a second-hand seller or Vegetable seller on the street or have 2-3,000 run a shop. I don't think you deserve that ambition Number one, you must understand that entrepreneurship is not limited to street vending or a small shop and that is why I think The whole Negan land should change their mindset when it comes to the question of entrepreneurship People say seeing is believing which is true You have seen the success of government servants again. What is success is very good If you think 10 plus is successful Then by being a bureaucrat, I think you can get that we can have a housing for him I mean, you can have a house in the market. You can drive some nice cars If you think 100 floors is successful, I don't think bureaucrats will achieve that Not many bureaucrats can achieve 100 floors If you think 1000 floors is successful Then politicians will be out of the picture bureaucrats will be out of the picture and therefore To see a 1000 crore success, you'll have to journey outside Negan land Because in Negan people don't know how to make money The so-called rich knows how to make money by getting contact and supply and perhaps Getting side income from the government But you cannot get 1000 crore side income And it's not going to be easy to have 1000 crores income from contract and supplies Many of the top Nagar contractors and suppliers are not eligible for 500 crores contract at the time So when we look at 1000 crores balance sheet We can't find in the government. Why? Because we're running business If you look for 5000 crore balance sheet It's very difficult to find in northeast Because northeastern people, they don't know how to do business You know when the Britishers came to Dig Boy and Dig Boy by the way is Nagah Hills, under Nagah Hills 1963 when Nagah land became the 16th Union of India, a lot of Nagah territories went to Assam You know by what? Under the point for 10 years Assam police was supposed to Take care of the Nagah Resort for us, but after 10 years they never came back to Nagah Hills And those are all oil fields today in Assam So you can read your history, it's fascinating But when they were asking people to dig for oil, Britishers, they were saying Dig Boy, Dig Boy, Dig And the name became Dig Boy Yeah, you know and British came here for oil for tea and who were drinking tea? Nagahs were drinking tea But we don't know how to sell tea We know how to make tea and push it again in the bamboo under the inside the bamboo Story for five six months Strong tea, but we don't know what is orthodox tea We don't know how to manufacture it We only know that there was a tea called tea which could drink a British medicine or business We don't know I want to let you know our principal just mentioned about Manipul and Israel How many of you Would like to Pack your things and go to Israel I wish I were as young as you and I would go to Israel, you know why? About 120,000 Palestinians who are not coming to Israel anymore every day to work And most of them work in the farms Because Hamas decided to raid, kill and behead children and burn people There is war Therefore one like 20 Palestinians have lost their daily jobs But it also means One like 20 jobs are open now And I've been to Israel on On the expense of an invitation of Israel government and I know that is very safe You can take risk There is a word called by Chinese the cold crisis as Wiji We danger G opportunity So in every situation Some people may take it as dangerous But another will take it as an opportunity We can start thinking And if you want to go to Israel And make Some living for four or five years You can contact me I might be able to give you some ideas You know why? Because I have history difference But take it like Manipul You know because there is conflict in Manipul There is going to be a new trade zone Happening in Manipul from That old district it is now shifting to come down district I don't know whether how many of you have gone to Morek But I I have been following up international trade because I'm in business In 2006 when I went to Natala Pass for the first time When it was opened after 1962 Chinese aggression The Chinese side had big enough road where two trucks can move at the same time They engage side An army man had to call up one car at a time If you have to play 30 minutes no car can come down The road was so small And so the Chinese businessman Came to sell their cigarettes And I went to have tea with them And there was distributing Chinese RMB 5 RMB 10 RMB just to make us happy The Chinese were selling from steel items to cigarettes and wine The engine side was selling only vikaji Mixtures We had nothing to sell For in Nagas since we don't know how to do business The Morek trade road Does not appeal us But out of manipulative crises A lot of things are changing And you will see the change after two, three years The same thing in Israel A lot of opportunities will happen although there is an amount of danger That is what the entrepreneurial mind has to see And if you look at the world today The world's labor force is highly skilled India's is not And nor so in America What I like about special colleagues Special colleagues gives you a lot of exposure To a lot of issues You know in India 94 percent of India's labor force Work in the informal sector Only 5 percent of the India's workforce is in the large companies Which is in the formal sector However for China 54 percent work in large companies It's just the opposite India's is 5 percent Chinese is 54 percent And you look at the way Nagaland is being shaped up So Nagaland's unemployment Was shared by the state governments on humans back And the government says That 9.1 percent of Nagas are unemployed Out of this That was in April 2023 70,000 job seekers have registered in the government system 11,914 graduates 11,812 students 9,219 graduates 6,503 post graduates 1,722 degrees 507 diploma holders And the rest are below past eight 70,000 is really nothing With by 2023 statistics Nagaland's population is 22 lakhs In reality I tell you it is not even 16 lakhs And out of 16 lakhs We have about 1,440,000 Nagas employed in the state government Out of 1,440,000 Nagas employed in the state government I doubt if 30,000 are actual workers The rest are all on picnic And therefore if you want to face your future With the Nagaland state government culture Which your parents, your family, your church, your society will be advising you You will not be able to excel in the world And so what do we need to do? You must change your mindset I'm sure you all have heard about Jack Ma, isn't it? So there was a time when I was having dinner with Jack Ma And I thought after the dinner I will take some pictures with him I realized he's not a short person But while I was busy clicking photos with somebody else He sneaked out But this person is somebody that I actually admire as well And he said, just before he came out of the public space He said work 996 9 to 9 to 6 days And years ago I think it was in 2017 There was a comparison study why Chinese can manufacture cheaper stalls And why America did not It was I think in the 14th magazine And it said why The Chinese executives would leave the workspace only at about 11 pm And come back at 7 am in the morning And so the journalist began to ask them, are you paying extra? And they said no Why aren't you charging extra? No, I was supposed to complete my work And since I couldn't complete I stayed back And I came back early because I need to finish it It's my work And he said, if that was in America and you're not paid more You will be sued The company will be forced by the court to pay you And that is why he said This is the reason why Chinese can manufacture cheaper So for Chinese to be working 996 is normal But for Nagas to work What? Nagas to work from 11 to 2 11 to 3 is difficult If you reach your government office before 11 That is a yet deep pressure If you're still in the office by 4 pm I didn't mention deep pressure And if you work for 5 days Then you may think that God is cursing you But if you don't go to your station And if you stay at home and draw your one month salary Your church also will pay for you because you're paying tax So unless we change our mindset If you think that this is the model of development No I see that your college is excellent The space is like a corporate space If you come and see my home in Kohima Is 100% built by Czechoslovakia The new house that I'm building is also 100% by Czechoslovakia 7 graduates are my mysteries I have drilled into them that being a constructor is not a shame You know why? In 1992 when I was 19 years of age I worked as a porter in Kohima And I realized it's very enriching I went to college and did my admission without asking anybody for my parents Because I was ready to work Who says work is a shame? There is dignity in work How many young people will be willing to do that? If you're born in the lower caste You remain in the lower caste And this is the saddest part I think about Indian social structure But immigrant you don't have that You can do any work provided you have the right mindset And I want to tell you that northeast has the biggest opportunity in India You know why? Northeast area comprises 8% of the total geography But the population is only 3% Only 3.3% And northeast has about 98% It's northeast territory is 98% international boundary But for us international boundary has no meaning You know why? We don't do business For us Goldman job is what we want We are very close to Uttar Pradesh We are very close to Rajasthan And I will tell you why we are close In 2018 in the month of August There was an episode just made for 62 posts of DAC messengers 62 posts in UP And what is their criteria? Study it up to class 5 Then another criteria should know how to ride a bicycle Only those criteria because it's messenger posts And you know who who applied? If you read Economic Times 30th of August 2018 It says that 62 posts in UP police department 3,500 plus PhDs applied 3,500 PhDs Over 550,000 graduates applied for 62 posts 28,000 plus postgraduate students applied And when I read that I said India is not What can I define? If this is not called mad education It's mad education If all of you graduates start thinking That you can do only peon job That a police constable is the best job that you can think of I know we need good police constables I know we need good peons I know we need good chuketers Good sweepers But if you reduce yourself to that I don't think the education has done justice to you Nor you have done justice to yourself and to the education system If you think in Nagaland there should be 70,000 unemployed I'm telling you you are the problem Not the problem Many people ask me when I was still below 35 years of age And I could still apply for peon job Especially my relatives who felt sorry for me They asked me why don't you sit down for government job And you know I was one of the top M.A. economy students in Nehru I was the top in part-time teaching college top in my former graduation Political science highest Economics highest History highest And in school I was quite good To such an extent that I got double promotion I'm not trying to boast about my achievement I'm simply saying that I was a serious student And so it was normal for my father to think that I would come in with NL10 Women vehicle This morning two NCC students led me It's very good Through NCC Airship I passed piloted with battery test And so I was trained to be a fighter pilot Every day in 1992-93 the Air Force was paying me five rupees And five rupees would give me one cup of tea Two syngoras for one grade of three Which is enough for my breakfast Every week once a good life goal was given to us We were trained and I decided I will not take a government job Because I realized that NACA's need to learn how to do business And so for me as a graduate to think that Government job is the only job available for me It's an insult to my education And today what I see is if you think that you are unemployed Although you're educated you have yourself to be blamed This is the challenge that India needs to give to them To their kids When I was asked some 10 years back to speak today So-called elite students in IIM Polketown They brought them from all over the institutes in Polketown I challenged them the same mindset India is not poor because India does not have resources India is poor because of mindset Suddenly if a lower caste come to your place If you have to go and wash yourself with milk In this 21st century how can you run a country In 21st century if you believe that drinking cow urine can kill you from corona virus What can I do? It's your mindset And that is why we have 28,000 first graduate students Applying for 62 posts in UP as messengers I hope you people will not start applying for a sweeper post after graduating from the church The teachers are not your problem You are the problem Change your mindset I will give you another example of Rajasthan Rajasthan 129 engineers, 23 lovers One lawyers, one chartered accountant And 393 pgins were interviewed for a pion post For 368 pion posts in UP secretary in 2015 This is so interesting 255 doctors, 24,969 post graduates 150,000 graduates And 250 PhDs applied for 368 pion posts in UP secretary late I wonder what type of doctor degree they got I wonder what type of PhD they got It's crazy We are making fun of the country's education And no wonder in the last 25 years and more Not even one university in India Has been in the top 100 universities of the world And if that is so You can imagine North East and Nagaland Nagaland University I'm sure is doing their best The last year was it last year when I went to speak in Ladakh And there were some lecturers from Mizoram University They told me that Mizoram University has some outside research works of about 935 crores Outside normal budget for research works And I said, then what about Nagaland University? Nagaland University have about 5 crores It's a joke We get the point Nagaland University and Mizoram University are same But they have outside normal budget 935 crores From government programs to do in University Mizoram University Nagaland University has only 5 crores Who is to be blamed? Do you think it's Heist Chancellor? Do you think it's Mr. of Nagaland? For God's sake, I don't know He's the teachers And who are the teachers? You become the teachers You You become one day But when we graduated Nagas were fighting I was given a lecture sheet because I had 55 percent In fact, I had 59.7 percent In economics And four posts were calling reserve for workers I was asked to choose which college I want to join But after one, two years Nagas students federation wanted it to be relaxed 50 percent We compromised on quality of education And suddenly we have lecturers who had only 15 percent education Who created it? Nagas created it And so today, when you want to excel in the world Remember Jack Maas Top 996 If you are unable to work at that standard Don't ever go to US Don't ever go to Singapore And don't think of Israel They will fry your life You know why? I was in New York and there was an Asian lady looking Asian lady Looking after the hotel where I was staying It's a five star hotel And I was so surprised that there was only one lady So I went to ask her how many rooms they had She said about 480 rooms And I couldn't believe she could handle guests from all over the world Taking care of 480 rooms If you go the same Or Hader Chey Kune Dei in Kogeta You will find about 7, 8 human beings Stay standing to take care of about 200 customers But there is not all When I went to Redison Blue and stayed there In Maryland There was one black lady who was catering to the whole restaurant And I tell you literally she was running She was not walking So I told my wife, look This is why America is number one in the world And it was cold but she was sweating One person handling more than 100 customers in the restaurant Is not a joke But it worked very well If you go to the world with Naga mindset That at region office by 11.30 Have your time move by 12 And have your tea by 1 And by 2 you close the register And get into the department bus by 3pm And reach your home by 4.35 And call it a day At GBC Dukh Bajay You're not going to survive Your mindset I'm telling you you're not going to survive And so today my message to you would be There is a lot of opportunities in Naga land Because there are no actors There are no performers You can think of digital entrepreneurship There's huge avenues out there When we funded e-commerce in 2014 No banks wanted to fund e-commerce in Naga land When we funded mass media In 2000, I believe it was in 2010-11 No bank was willing to fund When we funded hostel creating it as microenterprise in 2004-5 Nobody understood that hostel could be a microenterprise When I drove in I saw few hostels Because of digital age A lot of microenterprises have come up as hostels Look at your surroundings and you will not regret You know, Mexican author Gabriel Zaid Issa Wealth is above all and accumulation of possibilities Think about possibilities If you can think that you can be 10,000 crores You will become a billionaire And I tell you, I have met billionaires Billionaires' lives and millionaires' lives are very different Few billionaires have taken me to their homes to dine And I have gone to billionaires' home to dine And going to billionaires' home is very different From three days ahead, they will start asking you What type of wine you want to eat What type of fish you want to drink And, you know, what type of vegetables you want them to cook It's quite interesting But a billionaire does not have that time to ask you The billionaires' trajectory keeps on asking me What type of clothes I'm going to wear and come It's crazy, it's almost like a nuisance A nuisance But a billionaire and millionaire is very different If you want to be a billionaire God will make you to be a billionaire But you have to pay the price You cannot have the Nagam mindset And say that I want to be 1000 crores You cannot be a Nagam mindset Saying that IAS is the ultimate dream And you cannot be a billionaire No IAS can be a billionaire No IPS can be a 1000 crore party 1000 crore party is not possible But if your dream is only IAS, IPS and CS and PS So be it Then you will be won Then in that case, Nabilen will continue to have roads Full of almost useless cars Because there is our economy You may not be able to drive on a good road Because for us road does not matter For us money salary matters So I want to tickle your mind To think about entrepreneurship But if you decide to be an entrepreneur Don't think that it's full of roses You will face failures And failures is part of the journey But I want to tell you If you can develop a good business idea Today India is no more India 30 years back So also Nagaland is no more Nagaland 30 years back And the acceleration of change Is going to be much faster You know in 1996 India had only 1,300 patent rights When IPR was just coming in And by which time China had already 21,000 patent rights By 2003 a single company like IBM Had 3,200 plus patent rights By which time India did not even reach So far as a country did not even reach 5,000 And in 2018 India has 30,000 patent rights And you know what about China? 1.4 million which is 14 legs And India and China's population is almost the same China is more than 2 times bigger than India by territory But population is almost the same So if China has 14 legs patent rights I would think India should also have At least 10 legs patent rights But India had only 13,000 patent rights Today which of you government under Modi Is talking about making India start up in India You know? And atma nirbhava China doesn't talk about those things There is nothing that Chinese would post I'm telling you They are very loud You get into Bangkok hotel And you realize there are a group of 30 Chinese It's like Bakun They are very loud They are loud and keep talking for their money Imagine the world of business India's business cannot be compared with China And they are quite facilitating the Indian mindset Because whenever I go to the market When I say is it made in China They keep making fun of China Saying that the Chinese goods are not good They don't understand The number one Chinese goods Go to Europe and America The second go to Asia Includes some Asian countries And the third go to Africa India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal If you don't believe me You can walk into one day You must go to China by any means You must go Why you must go? I was so surprised in 2017 When I went to China There was no tree And the next day when I woke up There was a huge tree like that On the sidewalks And I said who put it there And the trees had sort of The dreams on them I said why? They said these are big trees They have to be watered And then I realized They were clearing logs with roots And that is how they were planting trees Magnificent If that was done in Delhi today It will be all in social media They will ask who will take The best selfie with the big tree in Delhi Just like there was a time When they asked people to take The best selfie with them The best selfie with the humble couple So I started asking If the power is humble Then the power has to be arrogant But you see the Indian mindset And the Chinese mindset For them they are doing it because They need oxygen They need shade There is not beauty Both Don't think I am supporting China I am an aga And I don't like to be a Chinese I'm simply telling you in China I think so I realized that in 2017 When I went to China All the bikes in the cities Were not petrol or diesel Everything was on CNG And they separated land for bikers For cyclists And I said my gosh All this time America has been telling lies That Chinese are rotten people This is so different And they did it by Not by government job They did it by business Learn from your neighbors They behave, they speak Exactly like us When I go to the restaurant I like beef larvas They have beef larvas I like taking grasshopper They have grasshopper I like taking beef Their beef, the ingredients They use are exactly The same ingredients used in my village And I realized We are on the same spot Our attitudes are World apart And so today If China rules the world in economics For us economics Ends and begins Only in government job I want to challenge you people Young people begin to think differently You can think about Every moment Every economics Why? Because in my village There are no landlords But if you have been told That study hard Get good marks And you will become an officer And live happily thereafter But if you have been told You don't study hard You don't get good marks You fail You will come and look after Our cows in peace And work in their fields Already a 5 year old child Knows what is development You think agriculture is associated With overdoing your own I'm going to tell you one secret We have a flagship call Trees for wealth And our target is to plant 1 billion fruit trees In northeast region by 2050 And you know at constant price of 2020 1 tree at the rate of 1,000 rupees I know some trees will give them 20,000 rupees But given that if this Success We are looking at 1 trillion rupees That is 1 lakh crore Economy 1 lakh crore annual economy Can car factory do it? No chance How many will be employed? 3 million And on 11th of November We are going to run for that vision Some of you if you want to come And run for that vision Please register and do come And you can become part of our movement To own a workshop You'll be surprised One of our farmers Who is now 82 years of age In 2010 During the peak of lockdown I believe he earned about 14 lakhs By sitting in this place By selling nurseries 3 seconds Our own office bought from him For more than 8 lakh rupees I'm sure that is better than this It's mindset And since you are in India You need to give Or they need food products To Indian cities You will never have Shortage of market Talk about ginger Talk about anything You will get money Money is out there Leaders are out there The only challenge is to change our mindset And I want to challenge all of you Think positive And start thinking How to get big money Not small money Because you all deserve to be very rich I want you all to be very rich I want you people to be employers And I know everybody Cannot be employers That is okay But everybody can be rich And so I will share with you What Samuel L. Jackson said He said Who tells you money cannot buy happiness Never had any So if you think Money cannot buy happiness Then you know that That person Had never had money I will leave with you What Proverbs I like reading Bible Bible gives me a lot of insights And Proverbs 18 21 Afterwards you can check it out The town has the power Of life and death And those who love it Will eat its fruit The town is very powerful If you tell yourself That I want to be a bourbon servant All the time So shall you become a bourbon servant But if you tell yourself That I will be a billionaire I will be a millionaire And you keep telling that You will find life You will become a billionaire It will not happen in 1-2 years Probably not Because at the Entrepreneur's Association We called instant success as 10 years 10 years is instant success You cannot be impatient But you have to be consistent I don't know how many of you Are following the Entrepreneur's Association page If not Please follow out there You will not see a beautiful girl If you are looking for those beautiful women You will not find our page But if you want to see creativity And drive And some interesting thoughts You will find that in our page And it will give you idea Of what we are trying to do If you want to see in our page Very highly educated people Acting and doing works And economic development Only you will not find in our page You will find very ordinary people Trying to make a difference And creating business ideas Of simple ideas So you can check on And I want to tell you The last point that I want to tell you is You must find a good partner One day you will all get married And if you get a good partner From that single decision Of getting a good partner You will determine 90% of your happiness and success If you get the wrong partner Outside you may be smiling But inside you will be heavy So think wisely Get your good partner And a chief Why I say that Because I realize these days A lot of people They become serious with each other By just on social media And suddenly they realize Oh it was a waste of time Maybe some people got Gold from social media But you have to study Each other I studied my partner a lot And my wife is a wonderful person She was the first Czechoslovak Lady to get top 10 in Madrid That also in General category And why I say this Is because I am very selective Even with my friends You will be surprised That my friend circle is very different I have people who are 87 years of age I have people who are in their eight 20s But it is my choice Choose well I keep telling people choose your partner very well And by God also tells the same thing Proverbs 18 22 He who finds a wife Finds what is good And receives favor from the Lord It is also the same He who finds a husband Finds what is good And receives favor from the Lord Tomorrow you will all get married When you get married Remember it is a blessing from God Choose your partners carefully And I tell you I am also successful Because of my wife And I believe my wife Is so successful because of me Because we compliment each other And mind you Today Your leader has said That I am getting into business I am now Getting into business And after 5 years when you meet me You will not meet me In my same car You will not meet me in the same status If God willing If I am healthy I think I will be very rich If you meet me After 15 years I believe I will not be less than 1,000 crores Valenciate But I am not very sure I am not very sure now Whether I can hit 10,000 crores Valenciate And if you say well he didn't go He went down the grave as a poor man So what? I tried More important thing is to try I didn't try for In PSE I didn't give 500 rupees to the state government For applying my job You know for NSSB More than 50,000 people Applied And to apply for that job We need to pay 500 rupees And go plus Which means the state government Got 25,000 crores Got 25,000 25,000 crores From 15,000 Plus applicants Because each one paid 500 rupees about For applying for the job Why? Mind set I am not telling you don't apply You can apply But when I saw in mega social media After the exams They said oh we didn't do that We did web They could remember the damn And I said out in the past Single exams Their general knowledge is so weak So if If others are doing it And you are doing it seriously go ahead If you are not serious don't waste your time I would suggest That you better go to Israel Get your passport Go to Israel and learn about 2 gene legs for this amount And come back and tell us the story about war Because in Israel There is actually no war Inside Israel only the border Has got some war type situation Inside the land If you want to go to China To teach English Because you can learn good English Go and teach China needs about 1 million English teachers I don't know whether you are aware of it or not Go and teach English in Thailand Your beginning salary will be about 80,000 rupees Go and teach English in South Korea Don't go there to work in the hotel Go there as an English teacher And to become an English teacher You have to work a little harder You have to pass certain exams But you have opportunity And so today Nobody should Give their name as educated Unemployed Change your mindset And you will start Seeing your world change You will be Exposing a lot of your talents Unfortunately I am not Be able to see through it But your talent Should be able to give you money If you have singing talent Make your singing pay for you If you have an arts talent Make your arts generate money for you Find out where you are good at And don't limit yourself to the Parent mentality Don't think that Government job is the only And the best job in the world Because your parents said so What your parents know And what they are advising you Is with the best of intention But it may not be the best for your future If they tell you that agree business Is not what they give you To study up to graduation And they want you to come back Only with a new talent Tell them that agree business Also has both opportunities If they tell you to be a trader Fine But if they don't agree Tell them that in trade There is also business One of my friends Even in 2021 lockdown From trading Selling basically diamonds He caught in a gross sale Of 11 crores in development And so He resigned from this government job I said well done Congratulations. I'm so happy You finally decided to resign From this damn government job And he was laughing I'm grateful that you gave me The advice to resign One of my doctor friends He is a medical doctor And he resigned From his job I think In 1922 last year To become a fruit farmer So change is happening in Nagaland What I'm telling you I'm not telling you in the air I am actually seeing things happening And there is so much opportunity In Nagaland If you want To learn A trade, a scheme Which is going to give you success Please do so Don't be satisfied with your general Degree of being just A graduate And don't let your mindset Pull you down Thinking that only women's job Is meant for educated lot The person standing Before you is somebody Who has cleaned toilets I was the first to sell ice cream In Kohiba in 1992 And I did street selling in 1996, 97, 94 And I Built a library By selling handkerchief And pens And cleaning toilets There is money in cleaning toilets Not now anymore maybe I don't know But in our days there was money Because there was no truck Car to come and clean the toilets At night we worked very hard And in one night We used to earn even 1500 each It was fantastic When the Hajara was only 50 rupees We were making money And Why did we make money We were prepared In work hard Which was looked down upon by people If you learn how to do business When the entrepreneurs Associates started in Dimapul Only 5% Of the market Was engaged By Nagas 95% of trade and commerce in Dimapul Was handled by No Nagas Because Nagas looked down on trade Today it is changing It's about 25% to 30% When we started In 2003 We did a survey in Mokoku 75% don't locals 25% locals For several 70% locals 30% non-locals Mokoku today Has something like 60% locals 40% non-locals So there is improvement in Mokoku Kohima has got about 42% locals When we started in the year 2000 They had only about 35% Our educated Unemployed number is growing But the Nagas share in trade and commerce Is not growing as it should Today in Kutsero Is the opposite 90% locals 10% non-locals And why is that so?  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Just quickly I would like to thank the organiser of the event and the host for a really amazing time here. It's been really quite impressive to see all the presentations so far. So thank you very much to them. So I'm going to try to do it quite quickly because you've been going through a lot of presentations this morning. So now we're going to basically zoom inside these evil fences that are the schools. Now before talking about the kind of work that we're doing at the Pittsburgh Institute and the William DeConning Academy, I just want to make a quick overview of this problematic world that is open source. So very quickly, 1986 you have Richard Stallman who is basically doing his Stallman thing in his lab. And the legend says that they get a new printer and then the printer, the driver, he wants to hack the driver to do something but that he cannot do it so it gets very, very upset. And then because of that the rest of the history is the foundation, the creation of the Free Software Foundation and the GPL license. So in 1991, Linus Tolvard think it's a quite interesting project so he decides to use this license for the Linux kernel and then we know what happens next. 1998, someone else that is a bit in the dark, which is Eric Raymond, has write a book that tried to explain the ecosystem of Free Software production. And this is quite inspiring for Netscape who think that it could be some sort of exit strategy for their browser. And Raymond looking at how Netscape is using open source in commercial practices, well Free Software in commercial practices, decides with a few other people to not fork but kind of branch the Free Software movement into the open source initiative. And open source, the intention of course was to be more attractive to business people but at the same time to clarify this sort of confusion around the problematic world such as free and freedom. And the consequence of that is that suddenly this project and this intention, this way of working becomes more attractive to other field. So in 1999 you have for instance the first example of first steps towards a clearer articulation of open source hardware with the early open source core CPU project. In 1999 you also have something that starts to be a more diffusion into other cultural fields such as the architecture. So in 1999 already people are starting to talk about open source architecture. And then beyond that in 2001 you have Lawrence Lesig who also gets very, very upset like Stalman because he's looking at the internet and he's seeing this sort of, what he kind of called this sort of Sovietization, put that sort of Sovietization of the network. His fear is the media industry will start to lock down the resources and the way people are sharing online. And his mission is to provide a constitution for the cyberspace and this is done through the project Creative Commons.  Later on they will switch to a Creative Commons license. In 2001 it's also the project FreeBeer because these things are getting more and more popular so artists think it's good for these open source stuff. So they make a FreeBeer project to try to communicate on this issue and it's also the birth of the free art license. And then things are getting even more and even more confusing with 2003 the birth of the open source yoga movement. So the open source yoga movement is basically a response towards an attempt from some yogi in the USA to patent some asanas or some yoga positions and to trademark them. And this is interesting because this movement is trying to make a link between open source and public domain which is not quite exactly this but it's a very good case of interpretation of open source in a broad mainstream context. But this even goes further with 2003 the birth of open source Judaism that was hinted by Douglas Roshkov in the conferences to try to explain how religions could benefit from open source. But it's also the birth of the open educational resources which is a sort of collection of documents that universities and academia try to share and put online so other people can reuse their course curriculum. 2004 open government, same stories. So we weren't interested in two open source but we understand it through the transparency approach so we think that it could be good for government. And 2005 Adrian Boyd is challenging the economy by trying to create basically some sort of physical fork bomb by creating a machine that would eventually print itself which is the reprap project. It starts to get quite messy so a few people start to get together and try to understand how this whole open source system is working which is quite difficult. So 2006 is the Open Knowledge Foundation is created to try to clarify some of these definitions and some of these licenses in a more broader cultural context. It's also the similar project is the Freedom Defined Project that attempts to clarify what is really free in Creative Commons licenses and other free and open source licenses or permissive licenses. And 2006 of course is also the first LGM event. 2007 you have the Open Handset Alliance which is Google's own approach to open source. It's a kind of second approach towards how to integrate open source in a commercial and commercial context. 2010 you have open source fashion but you also have open source Jihad which is a kind of sort of sub-branch of Al Qaeda who basically tried to have been trying to rebrand the anarchist cookbook under this open source Jihad that is found in several underground fanzines. It's also the birth of the open web which tried to borrow some of the openness of the open source mess into the internet through the promotion of Open Standard. 2012 it's also now the creation of the Open Data Institute in London so now we're moving into again further away from the original free software and open source intent towards more how should we license and how should we access large data sets. It's also the year where Difference Distributed is created. So basically with the combination of open source technology and 3D printing what some people are interested into printing their own firearms and it's also how they got kicked out from Thingiverse and then created the DEF CAD project. And now finally 2013 the William DeConning Academy decides to do something about open source. So looking quickly at all this history we can be a bit worried because how now do artists and designers within a context of education are going to interpret these questions. What kind of new things are they going to invent to again reclaim the word open source one more time. Well as it goes this particular project concerns the bachelors but in the true spirit of open source we're not going to start from scratch and in that sense we have a very good code base to start working with which is the Pittsburgh Institute. So the Pittsburgh Institute is the master program of the William DeConning Academy and it happens that we've been quite interested in the question of free software and free culture for quite some time already. More particularly the way the course is articulated is done through wiki, free lib and open source software quite important aspect given to research and generally do it yourself, do it with other ethos. So the wiki basically is quite central to the course this is where we put all the things it's not so much it's barely no moderation on the wiki which happens that sometimes you have some wiki wars going on between the students it's quite nice and we put everything on the wiki it's not a secret wiki it's public you can go there you can even create an account. The presence of free software is for the network media branch of the media design master is very important as we start usually right away or almost right away with an install party which allows right since the beginning to try to give the students some sort of mapping of what is free culture by understanding the relationship between Dibian, Ubuntu and other distribution and letting them decide what they want to try out. It's also the context that is quite interesting so we are teaching also version control tools for instance as part of a lot of software that is being taught in the course but we try to provide some cultural context to it because ultimately we don't want to make super fancy makers and designers who just make stuff for the sake of making stuff and they make it open for them for the sake of making it open we want to use free culture and free software as really a conceptual and technical tool to understand how technology and cultures are working today and this is why the research aspect and the critical studies influence in the Pittsburgh Institute is very important. Some of our students are using the wiki to dump some ideas for their thesis and also in terms of growing knowledge the wiki has become a place where you can find quite a lot of information bits of code and how tools and tutorials that are contributed both by the staff and by the students on the same exact level. So the point here is basically how we can connect this thing that was specific to the Pittsburgh Institute but to also make the whole William DeConning Academy Bachelor's benefit from this specific approach that has been going on for nearly a decade. Well first of all we've been starting to use the wiki as a first step between us to just work together and for instance this page is resources that we've been starting to write about what kind of workflows we could figure out for designing lectures and this is growing solely and eventually the wiki is going to be opened up to other staff and other teachers and the students of the academy as the program is getting developed. The program will be launched officially in 2013 the next academic year but in the spirit of release early and release often we are already implementing some aspect of it in the current program so for instance in Amsterdam December 2013 there going to be an event on the topic of free culture and the current Bachelor's graphic students of the William DeConning Academy are working on this event where they are being asked to develop an identity for this event to think about how to develop the communication strategies and this is going to be done at several levels including how to use free software to develop this visual and this communication and how to map free culture and communicate it to a broader audience. If we start to zoom in into the new curriculum that will start next academic year we have isolated three elements which is open design, data design and digital craft the way it's going to work very briefly is when the students are going to come in their first year for four years Bachelor's education they are going to choose a certain type of practice for instance graphic design and then year after year they are going to get increasingly specialized in a specific domain so for instance someone who decides to be a fashion designer could get a specialization in open design a graphic design student could get a specialization in data design so this is going to be extremely important and the last year of the Bachelor's is really going to develop a project specific to the specialization in five minutes, thank you. Hello my name is Diana I'm the coordinator of the Slippery Field Open Design at the Academy what we're trying to do is to investigate and explore what open design could mean for our curriculum and we specifically focus on physical products or product design or even other kinds of products and as not a focus point we would like to pay more attention to the whole idea of design sharing sharing products and sharing also processes online of course in order to let users make them relevant for themselves and another topic we're focusing on is digital fabrication of course open design as I said is a slippery field and it also raises a few questions based on for art education for the curriculum decoding two important paradigms actually one is of course ownership and within that field we are collaborating we have a collaboration with Creative Commons in the Netherlands and we are sort of like co-developing specific scenarios for designers how could they apply Creative Commons licenses and how and why another and that is of course for us the most important question is concerns ownership and specifically artistic ownership does there exist anything like open ownership or how could it be applied to our program so to be a bit more concrete some educational goals of our program include exploring the aesthetics and poetics of open design for the field of designing and art the other one includes investigating, analyzing and working with more new or older method approaches of open design and of course what it means to share design and your design knowledge and your products and on a more pragmatic level working with digital fabrication so quickly I'll explain to you one example of our program as of next year one product is called opening up the origins of things and departs from the idea actually that of course we are all alienated from products by mass industry and mass production so the idea is that students go to the scrap yard, find products, take them apart make them repair them, hack them, make their own new parts by digital fabrication and tell a new story about this product with their new design more or less the goals for educational goals are that students learn to re-appropriate and personalize and make accessible and shareable by users and also to learn about alternative mass production means that students will visit scrap yards, fab labs, hackerspaces and also traditional conventional factories some possible outcomes we hope to expect are well maybe personal improvements of the product of Frankenstein, Fritz Vincent or even a data visualization of the origins of this product that has been made new my name is Alder van Mier, I'm coordinator of Crosslab within the Willem de Koning which is busy with education around digital media for years now and I'm going to tell you a little bit about two other programs we are developing one of them is data design and so I'm going to be really short because we're cutting, we don't have enough time but data design is data are everywhere now and becoming the material for design actually within this program we want to focus on how to design for dynamic data so the amount of data explodes and continuously mobile media collect our data so mobile phones with software logs, cameras, microphones, RFID, tags, wireless networks social networks, etc. in addition to our own social data and the data which is generated by the media and everyone else, governments and local authorities are also opening up their data so I'm referring here to open data so you could say we live in a data dense world so we think there is a need now for designers who can shape and give meaning to this endless flow of data and so numbers, stats and figures tell us little but when you see them visualized in an attractive and compelling way the data comes alive and starts making sense to us so data design focus on finding meaning and stories in large amounts of data and then translating these stories into a meaningful visual or experience which communicates to an audience so, yeah, we go to digital craft so this is another learning trajectory within the Willem de Koning and I would... so digital craft is about crafts and about new tools and technologies new technologies such as 3D printing or laser cutting have changed crafts and design but especially the process of making has changed so we make things different now so digital craft is about change and how we shape our tools in an era where digital production technologies are commonplace the craftsman is now often romanticized and is seen as a person who works in a workshop with wood and metal however the relationship between technology and craft has always been there and so the pencil, pen, the kill and the loom sit alongside the computer the laser cutter and the 3D printer so all belong to a list of media technologies which were all at one point considered new so crafts relies on one skill to leverage these tools in order to push and form a material and next to that it implies that one can take ownership or master their own work process so digital craft is concerned with the appropriation of digital media technologies and appropriation is about learning the tools and retooling them so retooling means to adapt, alter and make them more suitable to their specific use and making progress I know I have to quit which is really a pity because I wanted to actually tell a bit of more examples we are actually developing within the education but so when you are interested maybe you should come to our workshop and then we can tell a bit more about the program we are actually developing and it becomes a bit more concrete I am going to try to wrap up in one half minute so basically there is this what has been presented by Alty and Dina but there is a core aspect also to all these course which is around the ideas of free culture, authorship, web, digital literacy and participation which all comes with strings attached but that is the point of trying to engage the students with them and we are not going to do that alone it is getting harder and harder to read we have built a sort of network of partners which is growing so we can do this not just in-house but with other people so Creative Commons in the Netherlands was mentioned but we also have Rhizome for data design and one is quite important is Mozilla because Mozilla is going to be the first time the WebMakers project is going to be partner of the course and they are going to give us feedback on the curriculum we are going to use the WebMakers tool and that also means that our course will be under a free culture license so we are going to have a mix of GPL CC by SC and CC0 for everything that is going to be produced within the course and will be put online on the wiki so in the end something that is quite important for us is that it looks like a mess and very focused on the academy but in fact we just want to be some sort of a node and let's see it again Years of training so that is the point to be a node so node implies that there is a network and that is why we are trying to do this sort of meeting at 230 ish today we need to try to build towards the network of free culture where educators are not in design and really figure out if there is really here enough people and willing to try to do this thing together so we can be part of a broader environment Thank you Thank you very much