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Decision to start new projects to increase exports of IT products

Hamza FarooqFinancial & Markets Correspondent • Islamabad / Lahore Bureau
Decision to start new projects to increase exports of IT products

📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:

  • The federal government has decided to launch several new projects to increase exports of IT products, while the implementation of fiberizati.
  • Bilal Abbasi, the Chief Executive Officer of Ignite, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Information Technology, says that Ignite has started se.
  • Bilal Abbasi said that the youth should turn their ideas into practical products, because the production of world-class technology products.

The federal government has decided to launch several new projects to increase exports of IT products, while the implementation of fiberization project with the support of the World Bank has started to increase the number of fiber connections and house passes in the country.

Bilal Abbasi, the Chief Executive Officer of Ignite, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Information Technology, says that Ignite has started several projects to promote IT in Pakistan, provide youth with modern skills and create employment opportunities. There have been 5.8 million registrations on the DigiSkills platform so far, while youth are also being trained in the fields of semiconductor, chip designing, gaming and animation. They are also going to start a program called Jaldafuture Labs to provide hands-on education through project-based learning to students from classes IV to XII. Bilal Abbasi says that under the SAP program, 2500 youths will be trained according to the needs of the global market, while women's start-ups will be encouraged through the Women's Incubation Program. Ignite is also working on Future Labs for 4th to 12th grade students and the National AI Innovation Hub to promote autonomous artificial intelligence.

Bilal Abbasi said that the youth should turn their ideas into practical products, because the production of world-class technology products at the local level can be the source of economic development and increase in IT exports of Pakistan. , out of which nearly two thousand people have received training during the first year.

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Hamza Farooq

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