KARACHI – Chairman Standing Committee on Communication (FPCCI) and former Minister Information Technology, Health and Environment Muhammad Noman Saigal said Information Technology training and literacy plays a vital role in IT development in Pakistan.
Like advanced projects which are essential to develop IT, we need to focus on the basic training in IT education to enable a common man to do their day to day work using computers.
The Provincial and Federal Government have started some projects, and should expand the structure by enhancing the volume of projects from Districts, towns to UCs and Tehsils. More interaction is required by the private sector in this regard.
To make it more effective and to raise the Literacy standard in the IT sector , major improvements can be observed and a positive impact could be experienced by the IT Literacy Program. Fifty percent of the IT budget should be used for the Literacy Projects. This will also help to create employment all over the country.
Basic education can also be converted to the IT Literacy Program. Our country has to expand IT development and the expansion is only possible when more people know basic computers and relevant technology based equipment, especially in small towns and villages as people are very simple and they do not know the use of computers.
In the new schemes of IT sectors new projects could be launched to help the public sector to literate people on IT. Even IT education could be made essential in the country and everybody should be bound to study IT and get technical and practical training to use it.
BY : Muhammad Noman Saigal
Chef Executive N. S. Group
Former Minister for Health, Environment & Information Technology.
