Bhutan National Startup Weekend 2019
The Bhutan National Startup Weekend 2019, was graced and opened by the Hon'ble Education Minister, on 25th April, 2019. The event also marked the International girls in ICT, 2019.
Secure Coding Workshop
The Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team(BtCIRT) under Department of IT and Telecom, MoIC is organising a week long workshop on secure coding
The 19th APT Policy and Regulatory Forum (PRF-19)
The Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) is organizing the 19th APT Policy and Regulatory Forum (PRF-19) from 14 - 16 August 2019 in Thimphu, Bhutan. The forum will be hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) of Bhutan.
During the meeting, implementation plan was discussed, including the expected outcome and challenges faced. The meeting was attended by all the Regional Offices, chaired by Thrompon.
The ICT Management Division in collaboration with the working group 1 of ICT heads has conducted the 22nd ICT Heads meeting today - 31st August 2018 in Thimphu. The ICT heads meeting is an important forum for communication and coordination, and plays a vital role in ensuring that work carried out by various agencies are better coordinated and aligned. Challenges faced by the Dzongkhag ICT and IT Activities for 12 FYP, are some of the important agenda items of the meeting.
The Department of Information Technology and Telecom (DITT), Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC) would like to share that BHUTAN-1 along with MAYA-1 and UiTMSAT-1 have been successfully deployed in orbit on 10th August, 2018 at 3:45 PM BST after its launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on 29th June, 2018. The Department organized deployment viewing event and launched BHUTAN-1 stamps to commemorate its deployment from ISS.
"Korean Scholarship Programme 2018 with extended Deadline till 15th August 2018"
The Department of IT and Telecom, Ministry of information and Communication is pleased to announce the availability of Masters degree and PHD degree scholarships under the APT-Republic of Korea Scholarship Programme 2018 as as detailed below
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This is to inform the general public that Department of Information Technology & Telecom will be carrying out Thimphu WAN optical fiber network maintenance on 4th, 5th, 11th and 12th of August from 9 AM to 10 PM.
During these period, G2C and other online government services will experience disruption.
Inconvenience caused is highly regretted.
The Department of IT and Telecom, Ministry of information and Communication is pleased to announce the availability of Masters degree and PHD degree scholarships under the APT-Republic of Korea Scholarship Programme 2018 as as detailed below
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A team from facebook India had a session with government executive on the facebook as a means for communication, business and safe social platform. More than 50 participants including officials from various departments and agencies attended the session.
BIRDS-3 project team from Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) has initiated a Short Messaging Service through their CubeSats to thank the COVID-19 Frontline Workers by broadcasting their names through satellite beacon. To know more details of this initiative click here.
Content of Issue No. 52
The 2019-2020 National website competition was conducted by the Department of IT and Telecom. The first round of the competition was held on October 2019 and final round was conducted on February 2020. A total of 129 websites were registered for the competition which included government agencies, autonomous agencies and private firms.
From the 129 websites, the Ministry of Works and Human Settlement (MoWHS) tops the website competition with overall score of 80.30 followed by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) with 79.73 and Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) with 78.38.
