History And Development Of Information Technology In NEPAL

Prepared By : Roshan Dhungel

Group E

History Of Information Technology In Nepal

1. Use of computer for the first time in history of NEPAL in 1971 census(IBM 1401) by NCC.

2. Another 2nd generation computer computer was used in 1981 census named ICL 2950/10

3. Telephone Service exchange was established by NTC in 1960 in Kathmandu Valley.

4. RONAST E-Mail Service.

5. Mercantile Communications in 1995 started Internet Service for the 1st time.

6. In 1998, Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), a telecommunications regulatory body, was formed as per the Telecommunications Act 1997.

7. Involvement of ISPs.

Developing Phase Of I.T In NEPAL Up To Present

Due to success of NCC’s ,there are more than 300 legal private computer training institutes.

I.T Ministry established for advising and formulating plans and policies by NIC instead of NCC.(postal service,telecommunication,broadcasting,press and information,film development)

NTC provide cellular and WLL network to private parties.e.g UTL,N-CELL,Hello Nepal

NTA provide liscence to various ISPs like :-Worldlink Communications Private Limited Broadlink Network and Communications Private LimitedHotlink Nepal Private Limited

Traditional method of business and education are now replaced by advance I.T inovations.

Rapid and efficient development of Telecommunication and transmission media.

Now there are more than 4 million users of internet including GPRS and CDMA(0.2-2.2 % ).

Future of I.T

New wave of strategic technology

Cloud computing-(Varieties of computing concepts that involves large number of computers connected to realtime communication network,delivers Saas,Paas,Iaas)

Mobile application and media tablets(B2E AND B2C)

Social communication and collaboration

Video

Storage class memory

Information Technology In Business

Speed

Efficiency

Multi-Tasking and Newtorking

Low-cost

Entrepreneurs

•Reference

•Google.com•WWW.Nepal ministry of information and communication•I.T situation in nepal, Prakash Raj Singh Suwal,Systems Consultant,Software Development Division•PTU I.T book( 3rd sem)•Wekipedia•Different sources