1. ICT for Economic Development of Nepal Trends, Challenges and Opportunity
Hari Krishna Neupane
Snr.IT Consultant, Nuance Communication Inc.
Technical Advisor ,Rotary International

2. ICT for Rural Development
e-Governance
ICT Infrastructure
ICTPolicy

3. Trend: Social media

4. Source: (Nepal Telecom, Nov 2015)
Trend: Telecom Infrastructure
Source: (Nepal Telecom, Nov 2015)

5. Source :NTA, 2016

6. Source :NTA, 2016

7. Software/BPO Companies
Nearly five hundred companies earning estimated revenue 30 million dollars
Software/Apps Development, Web design, SEO, Back office/helpdesk
Good Pay range ( 25 K- 2 Lakh) per month

8. e-Governance NITC with support from Korean IT Industry Promotion Agency (KIPA) developed a e-Governance master plan: Government integrated Datacenter in NITC for virtualization and cloud service for govt agencies. MRP Passport & Smart Driving License with electronic chips to store persona info.
Source (NITC, 2015)

9. ICT for Agriculture

10. Community Capacity building training in Nepal

11. ICT for Education
Open Learning Exchange Nepal (OLE Nepal):E-Pustakalaya is an education-focused free and open digital library.
Contains thousands of books, educational videos/audio-books ,interactive learning modules that provide a fun and meaningful learning experience for Learners.
Available offline through local server or online through

12. TeleMedicine
Transfer and exchange of medical info between patient and medical expert via internet
Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN) providing telemedicine services to the rural areas with IOM, Kathmandu Model Hospital
Government initiative –MOH, telemedicine center located at Patan Hospital ,providing service for 25 district:
Live video conferencing, online portal to connect to center
Hello swasthya :toll-free number “1115 ”from NTC and NCELL to get solution for health related problem
Technical, legal, ethical, economical and clinical challenges.

13. Rotary Calmed Project :Stop Mothers Dying!
About 300,000 women and many more children worldwide die each year in pregnancy and childbirth – 90% in the developing world, especially South Asia and Africa.
Most of these deaths could be prevented through faster access to medical help, and improved local medical knowledge and practices.
‘Calmed’ addresses all these issues working with Rotary to send high quality medical teams to share their skills with their local peers, who in turn cascade them right down to village level, continuing long after the team departs.

14. Conclusions
ICT Popularity increasing but still implementation is big problem
Identify Public Expectation, encourage participation/awareness
Access to start-up funding & International market to promote IT/BPO business
Free access/loan to Professional IT course/training for those who can’t afford.
Encourage private sector/NRN to invest in ICT infrastructure and business.
Improve Rural Connectivity using latest Wimax, fiber optics,VOIP etc
Effective Implementation of ICT Policy
Funding & commitment , monitoring, evaluation in major ICT project

15. Thank you! Hari Krishna Neupane