While chairing the 1st meeting of the Board of Governors, National Information Technology Board (NITB) at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad on Wednesday, President Dr. Arif Alvi has said that socio-economic development of the country is linked with the development of Information Technology and it has huge potential to turn around the country's economy and through its adoption, public service delivery can be immensely improved. He further said that IT held immense potential and all out efforts must be made to incorporate modern technologies in various sectors towards improving governance structure. Therefore, he emphasized that the empowerment of NITB under the new ordinance would intensify its efforts for conversion of public sector organizations to e-governance to ensure better services delivery.
During the meeting, various items of the agenda came under discussion and number of decisions and incorporation of these technologies in different sectors was deliberated upon.
NITB had been established to provide e-governance software applications to public sector organizations so as to focus on cross-cutting e-governance applications and initiatives that could be replicated across multiple public organizations for better government to government (G2G) and government to citizens (G2C) services and communication.
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