Minister for IT, Anusha Rahman while meeting the industry
leaders in the wake of “Strategic Session to boost IT Exports” has outlined the
Government’s vision to facilitate the Industry to reach its true potential. She
emphatically urged upon the leaders from the Industry to chart out a
comprehensive action plan with the Government outlining tangible outcomes to
achieve the avowed target of USD 10 Billion by 2020.
The session was
attended by wide array of Senior Leaders from the IT industry. They have shown
their resolve to achieve this target through concrete measures. They have
echoed Minister’s trust and faith on Pakistan’s talent landscape which require
honing to tap into its true worth for Digital Pakistan.
The Minister
said, “Time is ripe to take Pakistan’s Economy forward through Knowledge
Economy. Pakistan is well positioned to take its due pie from the international
IT market. Our Government is steadfastly committed to provide enabling
environment for the Industry in the shape of IT centric policies, HR
Development and infrastructure provisioning. We are all up to help bridge the
gaps between the talent and industry alongside building an environment of trust
and openness to help enable the growth of software exports “
The PASHA
Chairman has shared a comprehensive plan to increase the IT exports through
various measures in the shape of public private partnership model. The first
and foremost is the right reporting mechanism where IT Industry’s true size of
over USD 3 Billion is to be reflected through proper channels. This right
reflection will help position Pakistan’s Industry in international market to
allure the international companies for building businesses with Pakistan.
The proposal to build public private partnership model to build infrastructure
for IT companies on cost effective propositions were also discussed.
The Minister
has assured support on behalf of the Government in the shape of Policies,
Infrastructure provisioning, HR development and transforming the culture of
public sector. She outlined the plan of providing class room based technical
trainings in emerging fields like IoT, Robotics, Analytics, Cloud etc. along
with communication and selling skills to young graduates. This is in
supplement of the plan of training One million youth through Digi skills
program by Ignite. She further added that Prime Minister has constituted a
Digital Transformation Committee headed by the Prime Minister to supervise,
implement and monitor the vision of Digital Pakistan and its associated
programs across the country.
The Industry
leaders thanked Minister for her keen interest towards the up lift of the
sector and vowed to join hands with the Government to steer forward all
initiatives in a spirited manner to achieve the true potential of Pakistan’s IT
sector for a growing Pakistan.
