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Pakistan’s Internet sector growing at 40 percent

ISLAMABAD: The national Internet communication sector of Pakistan is growing at 40 percent, said speakers during the Cisco Systems Incorporation’s 10 years celebration of Net Academy in Pakistan on Tuesday.

The celebration had 300 educationists representing Cisco academies from all over Pakistan.

Pakistan’ telecom boom has created around 300,000 jobs in the ICT sector. However this has also created a huge demand for professional and capable ICT workforce that can expertly meet the new age requirements of these positions. To fill the shortage of skills, creative public private partnerships need to be implemented immediately.

Majority of the participants were women in education comprising of principals, vice principals and teachers, administrators, as well as students of various schools and colleges.

Muhammad Zaheer, Regional Director NAVTEC said, “NAVTEC is very pleased to partner with Cisco, in order to support its mandate of producing ICT trained professionals that would make Pakistan a globally competitive nation. A competent technology workforce is a dire need for our country and NAVTEC through Cisco’s Net Academy programme looks forward to training technology leaders of tomorrow – nationally and internationally.”

The Cisco Networking Academy Programme, established in 1997, teaches students networking and other information technology-related skills, preparing them for jobs as well as for higher education in engineering, computer science and related fields. Since its launch, the programme has grown to more than 11,000 academies in more than 150 countries with a curriculum taught in 11 different languages.

Dr. Qasim Sheikh, CEO of R&D Fund under Ministry of IT said, “Cisco commitment to increasing the impact of women on all aspects of technology in Pakistan is highly commendable. R&D fund strongly endorses such gender initiatives and is very pleased with the leadership being demonstrated.” He also said that the R&D fund was very keen on soliciting proposals for the development of ICT with the country and promoting this cause within the country. In this regard the fund would encourage universities and colleges as well as other national enterprises to approach the fund with concrete propositions for national development through information communication technologies. The R&D fund under the ministry of IT has been specifically launched to facilitate various country transformational initiatives in information communication technology. staff report

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