CAN Federation gets new leadership

Kathmandu, Dec 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. 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 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 as the members of the Account Committee.    

The newly-elected President Pandey thanked all for unanimously electing her to lead the organization, stressing on collective efforts for addressing problems seen in the information technology sector.

She said there is need for policy reforms for developing Nepal into an ICT hub and international destination. She added that she would make special initiative for this purpose.    

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

CAN Federation was established in January 2015 with the involvement of professionals, specialists, institutions and related organizations from the Information Communication Technology sector in Nepal.  (RSS)