Article from Katmandu post newspaper on Timila Yami Thapa

Article from Katmandu post newspaper on Timila Yami Thapa

Thapa’s service to the Nepali IT and tech industry has been extensive. She has served Nepal through a unique combination of being a national-level policy planner, a pioneering educator in the area of information technology and computer engineering, an industrial administrator, an entrepreneur, and a social reformer working for the upliftment of women, child-education and youth employment. She has pioneered and initiated new educational programmes since 1979. Her efforts to improve technological infrastructure culminated into the first-ever Computer Engineering programme in the history of Nepal at the Institute of Engineering under Tribhuvan University.

As a national-level policy planner, she worked for a year as a Member of ICT Advisory Board under the Prime-minister’s office. As an educational policy planner, she served as a member of the Academic Council and the Research Council under the University Grant Commission, Nepal. She also worked as a governing member of the Nepal Engineering Council for three years.

As an educator, she served the Engineering faculty of Institute of Engineering (IOE) of Tribhuvan University, Nepal, from 1979 until her retirement in 2015—first as a professor in the Electronics and Computer Engineering Department and later as the assistant Dean when she managed four state-owned and 10 TU-affiliated engineering colleges. She also worked at Pokhara university for four years designing the course-curriculum for BE Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, BCA, BE in Information Technology. Among a plethora of other influential contributions to the IT field, she has also been running her software company Designco Nepal since 1991.

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