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ICT For Development in Nepal

Nepal has seen significant growth in ICT usage over recent years, with internet penetration reaching 36.7% and over 38 million mobile users. However, connectivity remains better in urban versus rural areas. Various sectors have embraced ICT, including e-government through numerous government websites and apps; e-agriculture through apps helping farmers; e-business through digital payment methods and online shopping; e-learning through educational platforms and libraries; and e-health through telemedicine apps. While ICT for development is growing, more development is still needed, especially expanding e-health services beyond urban areas.

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ICT For Development in Nepal

Nepal has seen significant growth in ICT usage over recent years, with internet penetration reaching 36.7% and over 38 million mobile users. However, connectivity remains better in urban versus rural areas. Various sectors have embraced ICT, including e-government through numerous government websites and apps; e-agriculture through apps helping farmers; e-business through digital payment methods and online shopping; e-learning through educational platforms and libraries; and e-health through telemedicine apps. While ICT for development is growing, more development is still needed, especially expanding e-health services beyond urban areas.

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ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT IN NEPAL

STATUS AND POTENTIALS


BY
SAGAR ADHIKARI
BHIM BAHADUR SARKI
PURNA CHANDRA PANGENI
DIBESH MAN MASKEY
ICT4D – WHERE DOES NEPAL STAND?

 Nepal being a developing country ICT 4D is still not well developed


 10.78 million internet users in Nepal in January 2021
 Internet penetration stood at 36.7% in Nepal
 13.00million social media users in Nepal in January 2021
 38.61 million mobile users in Nepal in January 2021 equivalent to 131.3% of total
population
 Urban connection facility is better than that of Rural area.
 Most of the sector (government and private) is seeing boom in use of ICT
ICD 4D POSSIBILITIES AND STATUS IN NEPAL

E- Government
E- agriculture
E- business
E- learning
E- health
E- employment
E- environment
E- GOVERNMENT

 Websites in all levels of government – for easy access to the facilities provided by
government like online driving license, status of your land property , notices from
government , downloadable forms for different services from courts, tax offices etc
 Official social page of the government – For immediate announcements and tweets
 Apps launched by government sectors- such as nagarik app, traffic police app,
GoN citizen app, kanun ayog app etc. to serve the purpose and educate citizens.
 Digital display board in every government office- also known as badapatra to
educate requirements of the office services.
E- AGRICULTURE

 Promoting , modernizing and problem solving of various agricultural


activities with the help of new digital medias like youtube, mobile apps,
programs in national television etc.
 Different apps like Smart Krishi, Agritech Nepal, Krishi Ghar and Krishi
Guru etc is serving nepali farmers in various forms with the issues related
to the farming.
 Supply and demand apps serves to market the agri product.
 Even weather apps are serving farmers who are dependent in rain water
for farming.
E- BUSINESS

 Numerous banking apps for cashless transaction.


 Payment gateways like IME pay, Khalti, goji and esewa etc. serves as
digital wallet for the citizens for daily need of digital transactions.
 Numerous online shopping has paved their way in ecommerse like
Daraz , sastodeal hamrobazar etc.
 Recently government has allowed dollar cards to the citizens for the need
of international transactions.
E- LEARNING

 Most of the educational house have developed their own online teaching
platforms as a result of lockdown.
 Numerous E-libraries have been established for easy access of books
from any corner of the country.
 Youtube also serves to quench the thirst of knowledge as it has
established its server in Nepal.
 Educational televisions have been serving as e-learning platform .
E- HEALTH

 Even though e-health was slowly growing the pandemic served as


catalyst for rapid use of ICT in health sector.
 Call a doctor( toll free advice) , Hamro doctor , Medidoc Nepal etc are
some of the apps where you can get medical assistance .
 Centralized server systems of medical establishments being developed to
have electronic medical history of a patient.
 Even though E-health is growing in Nepal it is mostly concentrated in
urban areas.
E- EMPLOYMENT

 Services like tootle ,pathaoo, foodmandu and bhoj etc. has been a great e-
employment platform.
 Ubiquitous form of internet allowed people opt for many online jobs.
E- ENVIRONMENT

 Spreading awareness through social media like no horn campaign.


 Local level SMS to make people involved in environment related issues
like Bagmati safai aviyan.
The End

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