Kathmandu. The seventh edition of the ICT Awards 2022 has been held in Kathmandu. In the grand finale program organized in the presence of more than 1000 distinguished people, awards were distributed to the best in 14 categories including the South Asia Startup ICT Award. The ICT Award program organized by Living with ICT every year is known as the largest and most prestigious award program in the field of information and communication technology.

This year, the South Asia Startup ICT Award was organized for the first time targeting South Asian countries. Tech Four Billion Company of Bangalore, India has received the award in this category. They came to Nepal to participate in the best 5 startup awards from different 5 countries.

This year Nepali Diaspora ICT Award under Infodevelopers ICT Award 2022 Dr. Ved Kafle received it while Mangeshlal Shrestha won the entrepreneur award. Similarly, Vijaykrishtha Shrestha received the Nepal Telecom Pioneer ICT Award and Sheila Kanskar Karki received the Ncell Woman Icon ICT Award 2022.

This year's Digital Pregnancy ICT Award was received by the Department of Foreign Employment, while the Digital Services ICT Award was received by Phonepay Digital. Digital Education ICT Award (Public Sector) was received by Gyanodaya Vidyalaya Wafal while Digital Education ICT Award (Private Sector) was won by Gyanodaya Balbatik Vidyalaya Khokna.

This year's Huawei Startup ICT Award has been received by Monal Tech. Product ICT Award Gully Maps and Rising Star Innovation ICT Award was bagged by My Business App. This year's Public Choice ICT Award was received by BIC Technologies (Tig). This year, the Jury has awarded Dikshant Pandey, a class 10 student, with the Jury Mention ICT Recognition.

During the ICT Awards, the organizers organized startup and idea fests in all seven provinces and honored the best 7 startups of the province in the grand finale program of the award. According to which, Cura Health from Province 1, Ejits from Madhesh Province, Knowledge Exchange from Bagmati Province, Swastik Nutri Food from Gandaki Province, Farid Dotcom from Lumbini Province, Surkhet Soft from Karnali Province and Pathibhara Sensor Solution Industry from Sudurpaschim Province have been honored as the best startups of the province.

In the award distribution program, Chief Secretary Shankardas Bairagi, Secretaries Dr. Baikunth Aryal, Keval Prasad Bhandari, Madhu Marasini, Chief Secretary of Bagmati Province Mukund Prasad Niraula distributed the awards to the winners.

Similarly, the member of the National Planning Commission, Dr. Ram Kumar Phuyal, Deputy Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City Sunita Dangol, Vice Chancellor of NAST Dr. Sunil Babu Shrestha, federal government MPs Thakur Gayre, Mahesh Bertaula, Shishir Khanal, Manish Jha were also present. IME Group Managing Director Hemraj Dhakal, Deputy Governor Bam Bahadur Mishra, former Minister Ganesh Shah and other dignitaries presented the award to the winners.