CAN sees election of new executive committee

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 31 : A new working committee has been elected at the Federation of Computer Association Nepal (CAN Federation). The Federation's 15th General Assembly which kicked off on December 28 elected the new board with Sunaina Ghimire Pandey as its President. With this, the CAN Federation has got a woman at its helm for the first time in its history Pandey is also the Managing Director of the software development company General Technology.

Similarly, Harka Bahadur Shetty, Chiranjivi Adhikari, Nabin Joshi, Shekharnath Dulal, Subhash Khadka and Sirjana Shrestha have been elected the Vice President while Chandra Bilas Bhurtel and Bikram Singh have been elected as the General Secretary and Treasurer, respectively. Likewise, Sarita Neupane, Agma Malakar, Deepak Saha, Sarina Shrestha, Maniraj Pandey, Ram Kishor Rawal and Karnaraj Paneru have been elected the Secretary.

The newly elected Executive Members include Umesh Raghubanshi, Dhruba Raj Sharma, Keshav Prasad Bhattarai, Narayan Prasad Shrestha, Thakur Kumar Shrestha, Hempal Shrestha, Shila Kansakar Karki, Deependra Paudel, Raju Kattel, Chintamani Bastola. Bhanu Bhakta Sharma has been elected the Coordinator while Santosh Dhungana and Pooja Agrawal are the Account Committee members.

The newly-elected President Pandey thanked all for unanimously electing her to lead the organization, stressing collective efforts to address problems in the information technology sector. She said there is a need for policy reforms to develop Nepal into an ICT hub and international destination. She added that she would take special initiative for this purpose.

CAN Federation is an umbrella organization with a membership base ranging from ICT Institutions and associations to Individuals working in this sector, and it works along the lines of an autonomous, non-political, nonpartisan, non-profitable and service-oriented sector of ICT.

It was established in January 2015 with the involvement of professionals, specialists, institutions and related organizations from the Information Communication Technology sector in Nepal. ---