Dabtong House is a non-profit organization coordinating academic and research in Bhutan, supporting the Bhutan AI community, and 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 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.