LAHORE: A two-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop on the “Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence” concluded at the Civil Services Academy (CSA) on Thursday, marking what the academy described as a step towards embedding AI skills across public sector training.
Organised by CSA in collaboration with Atom Camp and the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT), the course trained 30 officers drawn from public sector training institutions and provincial departments. Participants included officials from the National School of Public Policy (Lahore), Planning Commission, Punjab Social Protection Authority, Pakistan Railways (Electrical), National Institute of Public Administration (Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar), PRAL-FBR, Auditor General of Pakistan, CSA, MoITT, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Housing and Works, Military Engineering Services (Ministry of Defence), Pakistan Post, STI (ETAB Division), PAAS, FBR, ML&C, Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, DMIU–PESRP (School Education Department) and UNDP Asia Pacific chapter. Led by Atom Camp co-founder Dr Naveed and his team, sessions covered core AI concepts and their applications in governance, prompt engineering, data analysis with AI tools, ethics and bias, and the use of no-code solutions for automation and workflow design. Participants also refined training plans and assessed their competencies in content development and delivery.
