Table of Content

Current ICT context

Telephone network and internet use trend
DoCR MIS Status
Private Sectors Involvement
Recommendations for DoCR MIS
Regulatory Reform

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TELECOM STATISTICS: Karthik, 2072 (18 October, 2015)

*as per Nepal Telecom Authority

1) Subscription of Voice Telephony Service

Fixed

Mobile

Others

PSTN

WLL

GSM

CDMA

LMS

671,254

175,842

25,801,474

13,11,090

839,295

847,096

27,112,364

GMPCS
1742
841,037

Population of Nepal

: 26,494,504 (As per 2011 census by Central Bureau of Statistics)

Mobile Subscription

: 102% of the Total Population

TELECOM STATISTICS: Karthik, 2072 (18 October, 2015)

*as per Nepal Telecom Authority

2) Subscription of Data/Internet Services

Mobile

Others

11,782,404

309,383
12,091,787

Population of Nepal

: 26,494,504 (As per 2011 census by Central Bureau of Statistics)

Mobile data services

: 44.47% of the Total Population

GROWTH TREND of Telephone and Data/Internet service (Mobile)

No of Users

30,000,000.00

25,000,000.00

20,000,000.00

15,000,000.00

10,000,000.00

5,000,000.00

Year

Mobile Telephone

Growth % of mobile telephone

Mobile Data/Internet Services

Growth % of Mobile data/Internet Services

DoCR MIS Status

VERS
(Vital Event
Registration System)
Present
MIS
used by DoCR

Present MIS System

Used by VERS & SS
Share same database

VERS - Point of data entry,

SS - Baseline data is extracted

SS
(Social Security)

DoCR MIS Status

75 Districts
23 districts been brought in at one time or another
Updates to the system not consistent

Workflow and User Interface (UI)

Seems to be intuitive
Easy to learn for administrators and system users (non public)
Bilingual function an added benefit

Data centrally maintained making it more manageable and consistent

DoCR MIS Status

Public Portal
Available for the public but not user friendly
Problems like security lapse
Occurred last year

Biometric Identification
Introduced - Finger Print Identification
Not been very successful
Communities where populations does manual labour (like farmers) prints are not clear.

Private Sectors Involvement

Private sector
Important Asset in Cash Transfer Process.
Further presentation on Successes and Challenges from:
Hello Paisa
Siddharth Bank

Social Protection Processes to work

ICT and Manual logistic processes need to work in COHESION.
Specially in remote districts with difficult terrain and sparse population.

Real life example on how this is being achieved will be presented later
by Hello Paisa and Siddhartha Bank.

Recommendations for DoCR MIS

IT Division of the DoCR
Needs to be Expanded and uplifted.

Public Portal
Needs to be more user friendly
Due to prior security lapse - Public Trust needs to be brought back.

75 Districts
All 75 districts need to be incorporated in the system
A process system needs to be set up for data consistency and accuracy

Reporting Tools
Social Security tools need to be created for management and monitoring. E.g
Payments can be tallied with death rates over a period of time.

Recommendations for DoCR MIS

Smart Phone Technology

Referring to the Telecom Statistics

Mobile Internet Users Subscription data - 11,782,404 which is over
97.00% of 12,091,787
Should learn to exploit Mobile Internet services more in the future

Grievance Systems
Existing system needs to be improved and widened with incorporation of
phone complaints, sms, online forms etc.

System integration with other Govt. dbs as per GON

architecture
DoCR IT Team
Need for Capacity building
Expansion and upliftment

RECOMMENDATION Regulatory Reform

CASH TRANSFER Using mobile phones are most
successful and popular in countries where
Telecommunication Companies have been brought into
the foray.
Reform needs to happen allowing certain banking
transaction to happen via MOBILE Phone Accounts.