Plan to introduce Google Pay, other cashless payment systems in Pakistan
Islamabad: A delegation from the Google Asia Pacific region held meetings with Pakistan’s technology authority to discuss collaboration to support Pakistani startups and introduce Google Pay contactless payment in the country of 220 million.
The Google delegation headed by Tim Paolini, the Google Asia-Pacific lead for Cloud, visited Pakistan’s Special Technology Zones Authority (STZA) office in Islamabad along with members of Tech Valley Pakistan. The group held a working meeting with STZA Chairman Amer Hashmi and Chief Customer Officer Javaid Iqbal to discuss collaboration opportunities between Google and STZA.
During the meeting, Chairman STZA expressed the organization’s desire “to work closely with Google to enable Pakistani startups, tech SMEs as well as large scale tech enterprises,” looking to operate inside the STZs as Zone Enterprises. Pakistan’s tech authority officials expressed interest in helping “Google expand its existing footprint in Pakistan by jointly working on strategic technology interventions for tech zones.”
Some of the suggested interventions included the establishment of a state-of-the-art data centres across Pakistan, enhanced global cloud services to harness the local demand and boost the economic value of industrial sectors, adding more fintech power to the financial ecosystem by introducing Google Pay and other advanced cashless payment systems for the enablement and...
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