ICT Champion

Coinciding the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on 17th May 2014, ICT Champions were recognized for their contribution in ICT sector.  

Tshering Dorji, IT Officer from Tsirang Dzongkhag, was recognized for his contribution in developing Dzongkha-English Dictionary which was handed over to Dzongkha Development Commission. Dzongkha-English Dictionary application works on windows platform,  a copy of it can be found in DDC website.

Younten Jamtsho, IT Officer from Department of National Budget, Ministry of Finance, was recognized for his contribution in developing android app named "Bhutan News". The app is a news aggregator that collects news from local news media sites and from three international news sites. The app is available on Google Play Store under the developer named "Bhutan ICT". 

Bhutan Android Apps

Recently we have been seeing some android apps listed in Google Play Store. We are not sure if the apps are being developed by Bhutanese ict personnel's. Amongst them, the developer Bhutan ICT was a bhutanese citizen ict person doing the development.

Till date we have the following apps list in Google Play Store:
1. Bhutan News, developed by Bhutan ICT
2. Bhutan News (AIO), developed by Bhutan ICT
3. BHUTANews, registered with MileCalc
4. Druk Zakar, developed by Scan Bhutan and registered with Dratshang Lhentshog (Council for Religious Affairs)
5. Bhutan SMS Banking, developed by Bhutan ICT

Heartbleed virus

Heartbleed virus or bug is a vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL software mostly used in the server platform. The bug allows stealing of information that is protected normally though SSL/TSL encrypted connection by allowing to read the memory of the system.

You can check online if your server is vulnerable to Heartbleed by going to http://filippo.io/Heartbleed.

Some version of android phones are also vulnerable to Heartbleed virus, like android version 4.1.x version. The user are advised to install the Heartbleed Detector app from Lookout Mobile Security to check if your phone is vulnerable. The app with just detect and will not resolve the issue.

You can also check out Heartbleed virus site.

Dzongkha SMS Android App

On 7th September 2013, Dzongkha SMS application build for Android platform has been launched by Rigsum Institute of IT and Management, Thimphu. The first version of Dzongkha SMS has been targeted for Android version 4.1. The function of Dzongkha SMS is to send text messages in Dzongkha script (Tibetan Script). The app was developed by an Indian consultant who was hired by Rigsum Institute. Currently the institute is charging some minimal  fee to install the app.