Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of Pakistan’s Digital City-Special Technology Zone (STZ) at Pak-Austria Institute of Applied Sciences, Haripur, Prime Minister Imran Khan said time would prove that digital projects such as this STZ would have a far-reaching positive impact on the country’s prosperity index. The first-ever state-of-the-art information technology project in the country, as described by Prime Minister Khan, it will be completed at a cost of Rs1.31 billion.
The project would facilitate collaboration among academia, researchers and industry from within the country and abroad. And the beneficiaries would be industries in the electronics sector, software houses, mobile phones, technology incubators and computer manufacturers.
Pakistan has seen ‘massive improvements’ on the commerce front and business-to-business (B2B) areas, Systems Ltd CEO Asif Peer told participants of a dialogue titled ‘Looking ahead — Pakistan’s path to a digital economy’. Despite all the improvements, he says we have still a long way to go. “Our companies are mulling optimisation instead of transformation.”
He explains: optimisation means achieving operational excellence in the short-term while transformation is looking at your position in this economy and your sector and how you can have an impact on it through digitalisation. Transformation is about securing long-term fruitful results.
Mr Peer underscored that about 49 per cent of decision-makers in businesses (globally) perceive...
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