Sunaina Pandey Ghimire, president of Computer Association Nepal (CAN Federation) has said that the information technology sector has the potential to bring the country back to economic rhythm from the state of economic recession. He said that the promotion of the IT sector is important to bring the economy back on track when economic recession and youth migration are challenging the country.
Speaking at the opening session of the IT sector exhibition 'CAN Infotech 2025', which started at Bhrikutimandap from Thursday, Pandey mentioned that the efforts to amend and facilitate the laws brought by the government recently through an ordinance are positive. He said that this will make Nepali IT companies competitive in the international market.
'In the face of economic recession and youth migration, i.e. brain drain, the information technology sector can bring the country back to economic rhythm,' said Pandey, 'CAN Federation is ready to cooperate with the government to create an action plan for the government with the goal of creating 5 lakh direct and 1 million indirect jobs in the IT sector in 10 years and exporting 30 billion.' She also pointed out that the government needs to make some policy reforms for the promotion of
information technology sector. According to Pandey, there is a need to amend the Foreign Investment Act 2021, review the broadband internet tax and implement the necessary guidelines for infrastructure sharing. "Government should give priority to the creation of the Data Protection Act," she said, "It is equally necessary to make a policy regarding dot NP, which is an important infrastructure."
Pandey informed that CAN Federation aims to create ICT standards, promote Made in Nepal products and brand Nepal as an ICT hub for the promotion of the ICT sector. He said that CAN can help the government in creating an IT park operation plan.
Pandey informed that this year's information technology fair included a satellite exhibition for the first time, and said that Nepal Space Foundation plans to launch Q-2 Moonal and Q-3 satellites into lower earth orbit in 2025 in collaboration with NAST. These satellites are expected to play an important role in disaster risk reduction, climate change monitoring and emergency communication.
