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

Dzongkha - English Dictionary

Some dzongkhag ICT personnel are really working on in-house application development through their own interest. Few have been working on content management system like Joomla, Wordpress and so on for their dzongkhag website and some have been developing Dzongkha - English Dictionary application. Tsirang and Chhukha dzongkhag have developed such dzongkha-english dictionary.

Civil and Electrical Estimation Software

Civil and Electrical Estimation Software (CEES) was developed by a ICT personnel working under Pema Gatshel dzongkhag. The software would ease the work for engineers under taking any projects. The software is mainly targeted for the local needs of the country.