Top 5 Rising Star Innovations of ICT Awards 2025

The top 5 Rising Star Innovations of the ICT Awards 2025 have been selected. The top 5 have been announced from the top 13 Rising Star Innovations that were previously selected. The top 5 Rising Star Innovations have been selected and public voting is now underway for the best.

The Rising Star Innovation ICT Award is an award targeted at students studying in higher education and universities. The Rising Star Innovation Award is given to encourage and promote projects created by students studying in schools and colleges.

The top 5 Rising Star Innovations of the ICT Awards 2025

Scaling Smarter

Scaling Smarter is a project started by 27-year-old Atij Ghimire, a student at Tribhuvan University. Its main initiative is Nepali GPT, which aims to develop an AI model that can communicate in Nepali.

The goal is to expand Nepali GPT from chatbots to OCR, multimodal assistants, e-governance and education in the next 3 to 5 years.

Kanun AI
Kanun AI is an AI-based legaltech platform launched by Arjun Poudel, 20, of Kathmandu Model College, Rajesh Thapa, 19, of Software College and Sulabh Timalsina, 22, of Nepal Engineering College. Developed with the aim of providing access to justice for all, this platform works to provide legal information in a simple way, prepare draft documents and facilitate the research process of lawyers.

Mindbridge

Mindbridge is a platform developed by Dipesh Acharya, 22, Kritam Bhattarai, 21, and Kushal Adhikari, 21, of Purbanchal Campus. Through Mindbridge, children with dyslexia can easily learn by listening to sounds, distinguishing letters with the help of colors, viewing words in 3D with AR and through game-based learning.

Spinovate

When asked, the camera recognizes the object and provides voice information. It also provides real-time information on whether there is an obstacle ahead.