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  • Pakistan: Central Board of Revenue amends process of filing of income tax return

    Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has made amendment in the process of filing of income tax return to facilitate the taxpayers.

    CBR has inserted a new sub-section (2A) in the section 114 that provides a return of income tax filed electronically on the web or any magnetic media or any other computer readable media will be considered as valid income tax return.

  • Pakistan: Citizens Database to ensure transparency government affairs: NADRA

    Deputy Chairman NADRA Tariq Malik has said that a reliable and secure citizen database could ensure transparency and fairness in the government affairs. In his thesis presented at the ID world conference held in Dubai this week he said,”The days are over, when e-government was regarded as mere developing websites and disparate databases which are not in harmony with each others,” adding that registering citizens and stacking up information of citizens is important but not enough.

    “Evaluating consolidated trends and building public policy blocks on citizens data is the true transformation of e-Government programs,” he added.

  • Pakistan: Citizens’ database to eliminate identity theft: NADRA chairman

    National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Chairman Brig (r) Saleem Ahmed Moeen has said that creating a citizensí database will eliminate identity theft from the country.

    According to a statement issued here on Wednesday, he said this in ìElectronic Passport and Services to Citizens: the roadmap of government-driven ID programsî at the ID World International Congress in Milan, Italy, where he was invited as a keynote speaker. The ID World International Congress gathers the most influential decision makers and opinion leaders of the ID Revolution Community: C-suite level delegates from the industry, government representatives, innovators, and pioneering end-users, it added.

  • Pakistan: CM orders early completion of Land Record Computerisation Project

    Punjab Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has directed that the project of Land Record Computerization in the province should be completed speedily without any further delay in a transparent manner. He said that the bids from well reputed national and international firms should be invited forthwith for this purpose and advertisements both in national and international newspapers and electronic media should be published widely so that maximum firms could participate in the tenders. After short listing of firms, the project will be awarded to the best firm, he added. He also constituted two special committees headed by Chief Secretary and Senior Member Board of Revenue for finalizing the modalities with the concerned firms and steps for early completion of the projects of land record computerization and E-government.

  • Pakistan: Cyberspace venture be made safer for youth: PM

    Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has stated that as the use of Internet is becoming popular in the country’s public in general and younger generations in particular, there was a need to make cyberspace venture safer for youth. “Convergence of telecommunication and IT services has created a global telecommunication and information society infrastructure, connected to information networks across the world.

  • Pakistan: E-governance: Solution to government citizen interaction

    Oracle the largest enterprise software company in the world and Techaccess Pakistan, Oracle’s Certified Partners jointly held a half day seminar on the critical role of a successful E-Government.

    E-Government is not just government online. A successful E-government is an extended integration of many parallel efforts including electronic-commerce and electronic-governance, which brings together strategy, technology, process and people. To succeed in this area, government organizations must successfully harness all four together.

  • Pakistan: E-government — a distant dream?

    Although the use of computers in some government offices has increased efficiency, the goals of electronic government may take up to a decade to achieve because of capacity building and infrastructure problems.

    Additional chief secretary Naguibullah Malik told Daily Times on Wednesday bureaucrats in various departments of the Civil Secretariate were generally hesitant in using computers.

  • Pakistan: E-govt to change bureaucratic mindset

    Federal Information Technology Minister Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari on Friday said the e-government programme launched by the government would bring in attitudinal changes in the bureaucracy to improve the overall working of the government departments.

  • Pakistan: E-office pilot project inaugurated

    Sindh Adviser on Information, Noman Sehgal, on Monday inaugurated an e-government pilot project titled ‘E-office’, linking five departments of the Sindh government through information technology (IT) at a ceremony held at a local hotel.

    Speaking on the occasion, Noman Sehgal said that initially, five Sindh government’s departments including Education, Health, Planning and Development and Services and General Administration were being linked through e-office system software.

  • Pakistan: E-procurement system within a year

    Pakistan has called for greater cooperation and partnerships with South Korea in the IT sector to use information communication technologies as a tool for the quick and reliable delivery of public services to the citizens.

    “Pakistan is keen to benefit from the experience and expertise Korea possesses in the e-government and e-commerce, to introduce paperless environment with special focus to e-procurement in the public sector organizations in Pakistan”, said secretary ministry of information technology, Khalid Saeed while addressing at the seminar on “E-procurement” jointly organized by electronic government directorate of the ministry of information technology and Korean IT promotion agency here on Thursday.

  • Pakistan: e-Sahulat Branchless Banking: Nadra facilitates financial institutions, telecom operators

    The Technologists of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) have designed an automated system for financial institutions and telecom operators for branchless banking with currency transactions of e-Sahulat touch points. The automated system was designed by NADRA Technologies Ltd (NTL) to further improve the means of e-government in the country, said Tariq Malik, Deputy Chairman NADRA here on Wednesday.

    He expressed these views during signing ceremony of MoU between Bank Alfalah and NTL on the joint project of e-Sahulat Branchless Banking. Under the agreement, NADRA will act as super agent of Bank Alfalah offering them their e-Sahulat outlets for Branchless Banking activities.

  • Pakistan: Electronic filing of IT returns launched

    The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) on Saturday formally launched electronic filing of income tax returns for the tax-year 2005 to facilitate the taxpayers.

    Member Information Management Science Aamir Z. Chaudhry told Dawn that for electronic filing of income tax returns, taxpayers would need to acquire digital signature from National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (Pvt) Limited.

    He said that initially the charges fixed for digital signature stood at Rs5,000.

  • Pakistan: Even after six years, govt fails to lure competent IT professionals

    Competent IT professionals are increasingly quitting government departments and ministries due to lack of a career path and heightening hostility from non-technical seniors.

    Senior government officials admit that lack of committed IT executives at mid as well as senior level was the biggest hurdle in the simplification of outdated procedures and bureaucratic red-tappism.

  • Pakistan: Feasibility report for launching telemedicine system prepared

    The Sindh Health Department has prepared a feasibility report on the launching of a “telemedicine system” in all districts of the province, which will employ satellite technology to ensure provision of better communication and healthcare facilities to the masses, according to Sindh Minister for Health Dr Sagheer Ahmed.

    With the help of this system, specialist doctors can examine patients that are located far away from their offices and recommend doctors located in those districts how to treat the concerned patient, a meeting held on Saturday to review this system was informed.

  • Pakistan: Federal Board of Revenue develops online HR management

    Tax authorities have launched much-awaited e-government concept by providing facilities to the employees for movement of files through computers with a paperless working environment.

    Federal Board of Revenue Chairman M Abdullah Yusuf on Friday formerly launched online modules of indigenously developed Human Resource Management System of the FBR. The Human Resource Management System (HRMS) has started providing its field offices and employees online leave requests, their approval in FBR management and electronic notification on the web, online NOC for training/visits abroad, processing and its communication through e-mail, online access to charge assumption and automatic data update in the system.

  • Pakistan: Five IT projects approved

    Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari on Saturday approved five projects to expand IT base and use information technology as a tool to ensure efficient delivery of public services in provincial governments.

    A ministerial review meeting was held in this regard at the IT ministry which was presided over by Awais Leghari.

  • Pakistan: FPSC introduces online recruitment

    Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) has introduced an online recruitment system for general and civil superior services (CSS) examinations to facilitate prospective candidates across the country.

    Information Technology Minister Awais-Ahmad Leghari launched the Rs 38.59 million-automation project at the FPSC office on Saturday. Chairman FPSC and senior officials of the commission were also present on the occasion.

  • Pakistan: Government committed to bridging digital divide: President

    Appreciating the need for empowering the citizen with modern information technology, President APJ Abdul Kalam today announced that the year 2007 will be the ‘Year of Broadband’ as the government was committed to bridging the digital divide by providing broadband coverage throughout the country.

    In his address to the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament on the opening day of the Budget session, Dr Kalam said, "Our Information Technology sector continues to develop and remain globally competitive," adding that, "My government will take forward the National Identity Card Project under the National e-Governance Plan for nationwide roll-out in a phased manner so as to ensure better delivery of services to our citizens."

  • Pakistan: Government waste

    Recently, I had the experience of having to deal with two government departments. My first experience relates to the payment of the annual token fee for vehicle registration. I went to the Islamabad GPO to pay my dues. After wandering here and there, I was informed that a person sitting in a remote corner was issuing tokens. I was given token number 393 which meant that 392 people were in queue before me to pay their dues. I stood for half an hour and then left because of the heat and waste of time.

    People had been standing in the queue for two to three hours and if we assume that on average, a person spent an hour there, 393 man-hours were being wasted. If we assume that the hourly wage rate is Rs100, Rs39,300 of income of those poor people got wasted.

  • Pakistan: Govt committed to facilitate development of communication infrastructure: PM

    Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday said the government is committed to facilitating the development of communication infrastructure in the country through well defined regulatory policy and legislative framework. “Our telecom policy is characterized by a mix of public-private partnership and policy of deregulation”, Gilani said while addressing a function organized by the Ministry of Information Technology in connection with the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2010 here in a local hotel.

    The Prime Minister said the present government has introduced massive reforms in this critical sector under the umbrella of National ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Research and Development Fund and Universal Service Fund (USF).

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