She said that the project will create local employment and entrepreneurship opportunities and extend broadband to provide distance education and ICT literacy. The Minister said the empowering the people of Pakistan through seamless access to accurate information and reliable services by means of ICT applications and Telecom platforms; and establishing a knowledge based economy is the vision and objective of the government.
Universal Services Fund (USF) Company gave a briefing on the project proposal. It was decided that Telecenters will offer local community with state of art computer equipment and broadband facility. Several e-services will be hosted on the infrastructure to facilitate people of un-served, underserved and far flung areas.
The programme will be run all over the country and special consultation will be undertaken with provincial governments to cater to their specific requirements, to be incorporated in the telecenters‘project.
Telecenter is a shared site that provides public access to information and communication technologies: A public place where people can access computer, internet that enables them to gather information, create, learn and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skill.
It is envisioned that the telecenter project will facilitate e-services including e-health, e-learning, e-commerce, e-agriculture etc. in rural areas; it will create local employment and entrepreneurship opportunities and extend broadband to provide distance education and ICT literacy.
The Telecenter in addition will house biometric verification of SIM cards, birth/death registration and computer training to the youth of the nation, the expected roll out extends to Union council level in un-served and underserved areas of Pakistan.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Haji Ahmed Malik
Quelle/Source: Hispanic Business, 09.10.2013
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