Dr Umar Saif speaks on Digital Punjab at Google HQs

LAHORE: Dr Umar Saif, Chairman, Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and Vice Chancellor of the IT University (ITU) Lahore, talked on the PITB-initiated digital projects at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California during Silicon Valley visit for 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).

It was revealed through a press release issued by the spokesperson of the Punjab Information Technology Board on Tuesday.

The statement said that Dr Umar Saif was invited by the administration of Google to share his ICT interventions executed through smartphone applications in Punjab.

Dr Saif got an opportunity to share his achievements with more than 100 tech professionals gathered there from around the world.

Dr Saif said, “Punjab is leading in Pakistan with respect to its IT based reforms introduced in the education, health, police and other departments.

Our work is being admired at the international level and adapted by the other provinces of Pakistan as well as some European countries like Albania and Romania.

The Punjab Information Technology Board’s more than 236 projects are bringing change in Punjab in terms of transparency, accountability, efficiency and good governance. Invitation to 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit is one of many admirations we have won from the world for our state of the art projects.

Our success equally owes to the large support extended by the Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif.”

The audiences at the Google Headquarters admired Punjab Information Technology Board and ITU for adapting innovative and effective technologies to gear up the government businesses in Pakistan.

Earlier, Dr Saif, while talking at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit said, “We have established the largest and first Start-up Incubator-Plan9 in Pakistan that was being replicated by other universities and colleges in Pakistan too.

PlanX and the ‘Tech-Hub Connect’ are other state of the art projects that are equally supporting entrepreneurs in Pakistan.

The Plan9 incubated more than 100 start-up companies, some of whom have won international rapport and are fetching reasonable foreign investment to Pakistan.”