A free IT training centre for 500 youngsters has been announced in Hyderabad by Federal Minister for Information Technology and Communications Syed Aminul Haq.
Syed Aminul Haq inaugurated the Software Technology Park at Hyderabad Institute of Arts, Science, and Technology. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ceremony was signed between the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) and the Hyderabad Institute of Arts.
On this occasion, Haq said the MoU between PSEB and HIAST was a major achievement. He added that the MoU covered multifaceted cooperation in terms of establishing a software technology park at the university campus, capacity building, online training, developing linkages between academia and the industry besides facilitating the IT startups and freelancers.
As per him, currently, there are 16 software technology parks across Pakistan with 1,169,500 sq. ft. of space offering state-of-the-art facilities to the technology companies. He noted that Pakistan’s IT industry had achieved significant expansion and growth in exports but the IT industry remained concentrated in Karachi, Islamabad, and Lahore only.
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He expressed the hope that the IT exports would potentially grow to $5 billion by the end of the present government’s tenure in 2023. The minister also said that 4G coverage needs to be increased to 50 percent before launching 5G.
4G internet users currently stand at 41 percent of the mobile internet users. He lamented that if the previous governments had planned the same much earlier the prices of the cell phones would have been low besides the creation of employment.
