ICT Award

Jury Members for ICT Award 2023

jury members

Under Secretary, MoEST, GoN

Subash Dhakal

IT Director, Department of National Id and Civil Registration GoN

Aadesh Khadka

Under Secretary, Ministry of Communication & IT (MoCIT)

Narayan Timalsina

HoD, Kathmandu University (KU)

Dr. Bal Krishna Bal

President , Women in IT (WIIT)

Gunakeshari Pradhan

Knowledge Management Specialist, IFN

Hempal Shrestha

President, Kings College

Narottam Aryal

Chairman, Sushmit Group

Sushil Pokharel

President, Nepal Internet Foundation

Bikram Shrestha

Associate Prof., Sagarmatha College of Science and Technology

Ganga Subba

Co-Fouder, Rooster Logic

Brijendra Rochan Joshi

Project Director, Data for Development, The Asia Foundation

Sajana Maharjan Amatya

Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Nepal Open University

Dr. Bhoj Raj Ghimire

Under Secretary, MoEST, GoN

Subash Dhakal

Mr. Dhakal had completed his computer engineeing from Pulchowk Engineering campus and is currently working as the Deputy Secretary of the government. He is been currently assigned to work in the Department of National ID and Civil Registration. Before this he had beard the responsibility for Department of Information, Communication and Technology. He has playing a great role to put up an impact on ICT Awards as a jury member ever since 2016.

IT Director, Department of National Id and Civil Registration GoN

Aadesh Khadka

Under Secretary, Ministry of Communication & IT (MoCIT)

Narayan Timalsina

HoD, Kathmandu University (KU)

Dr. Bal Krishna Bal

Associate Professor and Head of department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kathmandu University. His major career goals include Software Localization and Natural Language Processing (NLP). He has been working in the field of IT since a long time. He has closely analyzed and managed several software localization projects. He has also led and worked in several Natural Language Processing Projects as a Researcher, for instance, in Machine Translation, Opinion Mining, Text-to-Speech, Automatic Speech Recognition, with a special focus towards Nepali. He is familiar with the life cycle of Software Localization and Natural Language Processing Projects, to interact and deal with people of multi-national origins from different spheres of expertise (software developers, linguists, engineers, language specialists, language owners.

President , Women in IT (WIIT)

Gunakeshari Pradhan

Knowledge Management Specialist, IFN

Hempal Shrestha

He is the knowledge management specialist and also the co-founder at Nepal Entrepreneurs hub. He is also the inter disciplinary consulting researcher with over 18 years of experience in South Asia, Central Asia, Europe and America. He has specialty in IT strategy, knowledge management, and intellectual property. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at high-level business, technical and policy consultations and interactions in Nepal.

President, Kings College

Narottam Aryal

He is executive Director and president at Kings College. He had also worked as general manager- at CG education system. He wants to contribute in welfare of Nepal through entrepreneurship.

Aryal, who has also served in the Government of Nepal’s Startup and Entrepreneurship Committee, has been playing an important role in the ICT Awards since 2018 as a jury member. He is more concerned, experienced and enthusiastic about Startup and Entrepreneurship.

Chairman, Sushmit Group

Sushil Pokharel

Pokharel is the founder of For My Nation a charity organization established to build permanent shelter to earthquake (Gorkha) victims.

He mentors aspiring young entrepreneurs through Yuwa Uddhyami Ghar . The organization provides a platform to pitch their ideas and arranges the meeting with potential investors. With his investing knowledge and operating experience, Pokharel is also working as a venture capitalist. Pokharel is the recipient of Asia Honesty Awards for his achievement for an important role in encouraging SMEs across the world. Additionally, he was honored with Mars Award for his contribution in promoting women entrepreneurship in 2015.

President, Nepal Internet Foundation

Bikram Shrestha

He is the head of banking sector in the Sanima Bank. He is responsible for overall administrative, operational, ICT of the Bank’s payment system like, Card Products (Debit/Credit), Internet Banking, Mobile Banking, Branchless Banking, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) products & services and other related systems. Beside, Head e-Banking, he has also been appointed as Information Security Officer (ISO). He is also the former president of the Internet Society and has experience in banking career as well as entrepreneurship. Shrestha, who also represents ICANN, has got the experience as a jury member in international awards. Shrestha has been a jury member of the ICT Awards since 2017.

Associate Prof., Sagarmatha College of Science and Technology

Ganga Subba

Ganga Subba, who studied computer engineering from Pulchowk Engineering, is working as the IT coordinator of Sagarmatha Engineering and IT College. Ganga Subba’s contribution to IT education has been significant. She has been playing an important role in the ICT Awards since 2019 as a jury member. She works as a tremendous program coordinator.

Co-Fouder, Rooster Logic

Brijendra Rochan Joshi

Project Director, Data for Development, The Asia Foundation

Sajana Maharjan Amatya

Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Nepal Open University

Dr. Bhoj Raj Ghimire