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Marking the System Administrator Appreciation Day, HERD would like to acknowledge the System and IT department for its contribution towards organisational development. Key officials at HERD working in systems and IT development share their views to mark this day:

Dr. Sushil Chandra Baral, Executive Director

Technology is the cornerstone of development. We advance due to effective use of efficient means of technology. In the development world, technology has a greater importance as it brings services closer to the beneficiaries. As an organization, we envision a high degree of professionalism - in our work by developing and utilising our systems to the full potential. We have been gradually shifting our work from being paper-based to e-based. This has been quite an investment for the organization. However, we realize that this investment is worth enough as we look forward not only to build capacity of our organization, but also contribute in capacity building of all our concerned stakeholders.

Rajiv Dhungel, IT Officer

In my opinion it is a system which guides to run an organisation in an effective and efficient manner so as to create an IT-friendly environment. The server should be developed and updated in such a way that it benefits all users. We have successfully developed the system at this preliminary stage and we are still in the process of full system structure development.

Santosh Giri, Data Management Officer

We began e-data management from 2014. Till now, we have practiced it on two of our projects and are applying it in three on-going projects. Since we began our own e-data management system, we are gradually becoming self sufficient. We are confident that we can expand it. The administrative and IT system at HERD are gradually being improved over time. Compared to earlier days, a lot of advancement has been made. Online attendance, registration, recruitment, logistic management among others has been a lot easier through the standardised IT systems. This has made the entire organisational system functions and practices efficient.

Sushila Tamang, Office Executive

To run an organisation it is important to have a system, the system should be enhanced and made staff-friendly. HERD has a very effective IT as well as administration system. If it is improved further, it will benefit a lot.

Recently, we applied our recently developed IT systems for recruitment of field researchers. The interested applicants filled the form online. It was easier and saved a lot of time as we didn’t have to go through all the CVs and manually entered the key competencies and skills of the applicants. If improved further, we will be able to get more qualified professionals. It will not just make our work much efficient and standardized.

System Administrator Appreciation Day is celebrated worldwide in the last Friday of July every year. The day is also known as SysAdminDay, initiated by system administrator Ted Kekatos. It is celebrated to show appreciation for the work of system administration and IT workers. The first System Administrator Day was celebrated in July 28, 2000.