LAHORE : A meeting on Information Technology & Skill Development held under the chairmanship of Provincial Minister for Higher Education Raja Yasir Hamayun at Seminar Room Arfa Software Technology Park Lahore. Chairman PITB Azfar Manzoor, Head of Special Monitoring Unit Fazeel Asif, Chairman TEVTA Ali Suleman, DG PITB Sajid Latif and others concerned participated.
While addressing the meeting, Provincial Minister Higher Education & Information Technology Raja Yasir Hamayun said that Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar had constituted this special committee for the promotion of information technology in the province. He said that committee will recommend a way forward regarding enhancing and adopting role of science, technology and innovation in the sustainable development of society through need based research. It will also invigorating human resource development to drive innovation as per requirement of various sectors of knowledge economy by utilizing knowledge for wealth creation through balanced focus on all stages from knowledge generation to product development. Raja Yasir Hamayun further said that we will also suggest a way forward to facilitate the emerging youth in technology based innovation and entrepreneurship through provision of appropriate support, structure and mechanism. He said that we are focusing on emerging and frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, 3-D Printing, Augmented, Virtual Reality, Smart Robotics, Intelligence Vehicles, Bio Technology, Nano Technology, Green Technology, Data Mining etc. to achieve national socio-economic development goals. This committee will also recommend necessary steps in consultation with the various stakeholders for the evaluation and monitoring of IT industry in Punjab by establishing quality control standards and internationally accepted certificates.
