LUMS - Policy Discourse on National ICT Policy Framework

According to a notification, issued by the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the university hosted a policy discourse on the 25th of March in conjunction with The Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES (P@SHA) on the National ICT Policy draft commissioned by P@SHA. The participants included Jehan Ara and Jawwad Farid from P@SHA, Dr. Adil Najam, Dr. Ali Qazilbash, Zafar Kalanauri, Usman Ghazi, and Hassan Mubarik from Google, among others. The session commenced with a presentation by Jawwad Ahmed Farid, consultant on the project. This is the second workshop in a series on Law & Policy organized by the LUMS Initiative on Internet & Society.

The presentation was followed by a discussion on different aspects of the draft. Hassan Mubarik from Google asserted that even though there are existing ICT policies, they have not yet been implemented, and thus the document should include some targets which should be presented to the government. Although the presenter did proceed to outline projected outcomes in his presentation, the participants unanimously agreed that the figures presented, for instance for the expected increase in the number of jobs or literacy rates, should be more ambitious.

For details, visit the official website of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

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