Summary
The effective use and adoption of IT has the potential to deliver
significant benefits to the developing countries. Despite of low level
economic development, lack of infrastructure and long political
instability, Nepal has been trying to prove its capability and aims to
place itself in global IT map. Widened digital divide, brain drain, cost
of IT infrastructure, power outage and insufficient connectivity
infrastructures has always been felt as the challenges in IT adoption in
the country. Beside that, increasing software piracy, lack of
systematic framework for IT adoption leads to chaotic and uneven
distribution of IT infrastructure in the country. This dissertation
is based on the study and evaluation of IT scenario and adoption
frameworks from various countries. It delivers the framework for
efficacious IT adoption in countries like Nepal with the implementation
of Open Technologies. Beside that, the thesis also suggests the roles
and activities that must be carried out for making the investment in IT
fruitful and how the building up of local expert pool and knowledgebase
will help the country to be self reliable and reduces dependency on
foreign proprietary software.
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