KATHMANDU: The two-day Huawei MNC Digital Nepal Conclave 2023 organised by ICT Foundation Nepal concluded with enthusiastic participation.
With the slogan of 'Fostering Digitally Saksham Nepal', more than 15 sessions were conducted on six different themes in the conclave held on Friday and Saturday at The Soaltee Kathmandu.
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On Friday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal was the chief guest and Communication and Information Technology Minister Rekha Sharma was present as a special guest.
For the closing event, Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat was present as a special guest.
Parliamentarians, ministers, senior officials of the government of Nepal, representatives of partner organisations, representatives of the private sector, national and international speakers, subject experts, and various personalities working in the field of information and communication technology were present at the two-day programme.
Razan Lamsal, President of ICT Foundation Nepal and Chairman of the programme, said that the two-day conclave organised as an effort to measure digital competence for digital transformation, discussed various dimensions of digital competence, which will also help the government in policy-making.
Addressing the opening session of the conclave, chief guest Prime Minister Dahal said that it is necessary to emphasize infrastructure and security to develop digital capabilities.
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Speaking at the Fireside Power Samvad of the inaugural session, special guest Communication Minister Sharma said that recently information technology is not only important for entertainment but also for production and the digital economy.
Similarly, while addressing the closing session, Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat said that the findings from the Huawei Digital Nepal Conclave 2023 will be useful for the government. "Information technology can make a great contribution to Nepal's economy," he said, "The government is leading to develop the ICT sector. We are ready to cooperate with everyone for this."
Prime Minister's IT expert Prakash Rayamajhi said that there were various discussions on digital competence in the two-day programme and that there should be cooperation between the state and the private sector for digital competence.
Jim Wang, Chief Executive Officer of Huawei Nepal, said that Huawei will help in achieving the goals of digital Nepal and sustainable development.
Concluding the programme, former Minister for Science and Technology, Ganesh Shah, said that digital Nepal is possible only if there is digital capability.
Dileep Agrawal; President of World Link; Chairman of Advisory Committee of Seoul Digital Foundation of South Korea, Chang Hak Choi; Lee Yun Seng, Senior Industry Solutions Expert at Huawei Asia Pacific Region; Secretary of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology; Krishna Bahadur Raut; Founder of India's The Digital Fifth, Sameer Singh Jaini; Sameer Maskey, Founder of Fuse Machines; Professor Hill H Kobayashi of Tokyo University, Japan gave the keynote presentation for the event.
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In the Digital Nepal Conclave 2023, there were extensive discussions on digital infrastructure, digital introduction, digital governance, digital innovation and entrepreneurship, digital capability, digital economy, fintech, data governance, digital security, digital leadership and digital capability.
On the first day of the conclave, there was a panel discussion on supporting infrastructure for digital capabilities, digital identity as a basic anchor and municipal and state efforts and practices in digital governance.
Similarly, on the second day, there was a large panel discussion on digital innovation and entrepreneurial capacity, basic tech stack and digital capacity building, digital economy and financial technology capacity, data governance and digital security for digital capacity, and digitally enabled Nepal.
In addition, subject experts also presented their papers before the panel discussion started. More than 70 resource persons participated in the conclave.
The conclave emphasized Nepal's capability for digital transformation and the necessary policy formulation and implementation.
This year's Huawei Digital Nepal Conclave organised by ICT Foundation Nepal is the second edition. As a pre-event of the conclave, the conclave was organised as a grand event in Kathmandu after the foundation conducted the 'Digital Pradesh Samvad' programme in all seven provinces.
In the conclave, the second edition of the 'Digital Pradesh Paridrishya' — a book with information on the digital situation and capabilities of all seven provinces — was also released.
Along with the conclave, Huawei, the top sponsor, organised the Mobile Nepal Congress (MNC) as a mini–Mobile World Congress in a separate hall. The participants of MNC were informed about new technologies along with 5G, AI, Green Data Centre.
Digital Nepal Conclave 2023 was held in collaboration with Huawei, Powered by Yarsa and Connected By Nepal Telecom, which had many other partners. The collaborators for the event were IME Pay as Digital Payment Partner, Sasto Ticket as Ticketing Partner, Broadway Infosys as IT Training Partner, Check Point as Security Partner and others. The conclave was supported by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Department of Information Technology, Nepal Telecommunications Authority, Nepal Rastra Bank and others.
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Published Date: June 26, 2023, 12:00 am
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