Dabtong House is a non-profit organization operating in Bhutan. We coordinate educational and research initiatives, support the Bhutan AI community and are building a Japanese tea house.
What we do
We fund, build, coordinate, and host, and lean on a network of partners to make each project happen on the ground.
Dabtong (འདབ་སྟོང་།) means a thousand petals. We are the operational home in Bhutan for a set of long-running projects across education, technology, craft, and community.
Recent
Dabtong House, with Pelsung, hosted AI Studio in Thimphu on 11 July 2026: a closed, by-application gathering with a keynote by Joi Ito, AI demos, and a hackathon, and the first meeting of a builder community forming in Bhutan. For more details.
Dabtong House opened applications recommending up to three Bhutanese candidates for a fully-funded Masters at Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan, starting April 2027. See details.
Dabtong House supported a recent blockchain bootcamp and hackathon by sponsoring Claude accounts for Bhutanese participants, a small piece of a longer effort to make agentic tools accessible to builders in Bhutan.
Dabtong House hosted a joint dinner in Thimphu, co-hosted with Highreso and the Gelephu Investment and Development Corporation, with guests from Druk Holding & Investments, GovTech Bhutan, and JICA's Bhutan office. The evening marked progress across an AI data center project, satellite development, student exchanges, and the Voxel project.
Dabtong House was introduced at the Symposium on Design and Science in Tokyo. A panel facilitated by Daum Kim, with Jigme Tenzing, Aya Miyaguchi, Jonathan Tow, Gal Raz, and Ujjwal Deep Dahal, explored the deepening Bhutan–Japan partnership the new Thimphu space is meant to anchor.