ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin ul Haue on Saturday said the government of Pakistan was committed to reduce digital divide between rural and urban communities and focuses on youth empowerment as well as gender equality.
Due to the effective policies of the incumbent government, Pakistan witnessed landmark achievements in the ICT sector in recent years, he expressed these views while addressing to the Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO) virtual meeting. The Digital Cooperation Organisation held a forum along-side the UN General Assembly, inviting the Ministers from all the seven member countries.
The aim of the event was to discuss role of the cooperation in building an inclusive digital age within which more nations could prosper. Ministers from all seven Founder Member Countries Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Nigeria Oman and Saudi Arabia Including Pakistan attended the meeting while Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, of UN also joined the session.
Amin said the government of Pakistan brought many reforms for creating a better environment for tech-based businesses in the country. Minister IT said rise of digital economy, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, had transformed the world, but its global potential was yet to be fully realise.
Countries faced new challenges as the global scale of the digital economy and the power of private sector actors...
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