IT Engineer, Financial Comptroller General Office (FCGO), Government of Nepal
Doctoral Candidate-in-Training · Doctoral Foundation Program
Studying how government systems are truly adopted — one clerk, one office, one honest data entry at a time.
Follow the journey Enter the study portalEngineer by profession, researcher by direction.
I am an IT engineer at Nepal's Financial Comptroller General Office, the institution responsible for the government's treasury operations, public accounting and financial reporting. My work sits inside the systems through which the state's money actually moves — the Treasury Single Account architecture and the accounting platforms used by spending units across the country.
Having completed my Master's degree, I am now preparing for doctoral study through an intensive, professor-led Doctoral Foundation Program: thirty days, thirty topics, one lecture every morning at 05:00, homework every evening, and a reflection written before nine o'clock sleep. This site documents that journey and hosts my study tools.
The question my desk sits on top of.
Technology adoption research overwhelmingly studies people who choose to adopt. Government is different: adoption is mandated. Staff in spending units must use official treasury systems — yet the fidelity of their compliance varies enormously, from full adoption to quiet workarounds: the parallel spreadsheet, the delayed entry, the shared password. A treasury system reports what is entered into it, not what has occurred.
My emerging research direction: how faithfully do spending units comply with mandated treasury systems, and which organisational and individual conditions produce fidelity rather than the appearance of it? It is a question I have watched from the inside for years — and the literature has barely begun to ask it.
Beyond TAM and UTAUT: what adoption theory looks like when saying no is not an option.
When entries lag reality, real-time visibility becomes an illusion of visibility.
How budget and accounting systems exchange data — and break — across Nepal's three tiers of government.
Thirty days, thirty topics, five weeks — a structured transformation from Master's graduate to doctoral candidate.
Paradigms, literature, questions, quantitative & qualitative methods.
Linear algebra, probability, statistics, graphs, complexity, machine learning.
Leader vs manager, emotional intelligence, people and team management, wellbeing.
From the 7Ps to diffusion of innovations and Blue Ocean Strategy.
Academic writing, ethics, technology frontiers, design science, theory — and a defended mini-proposal.
The tools behind the journey — built for daily use.
All four skills in authentic exam formats: a speaking examiner that asks aloud and listens through the microphone, timed reading, marked listening, and model-answered writing.
Open the studio →One sentence installed each morning at 05:57 — collected here as the intellectual spine of the program.
The literature concept matrix, the growing reference library, and the road to the mini-proposal defense.