President Alvi encourages youth to excel in IT field

ISLAMABAD, Jan 09 (DNA): President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday stressed upon
the youth to avail of the existing and innovative opportunities in the
realm of information and technology and access the ever-expanding global
IT market, possessing huge prospects for progress and prosperity.

He said that huge, exponential and quantum changes were taking place in
the information and technological field throughout the globe which
heralded bright prospects for the youth of Pakistan to excel.

The president was addressing an international webinar titled ‘current
entrepreneurship aspect in digital world’ arranged by the Joint Cultural
Society for Communities Collaboration.

The webinar was arranged to discuss the visions and trends in the
digital world and the role of youth considering the latest changes in
the artificial Intelligence. People around the world attended the
webinar.

The president said that mega revolutions were taking place in four key
areas; first in computing, processing of data and analyzing of the
artificial intelligence, second, in the energy sector and these were
linked with biology, and finally in the 3D manufacturing, including
virtual reality, blockchain, internet data, mobile computing, internet
and social networking etc.

The president said the present government had developed the human
resource for the technological world craving for trained youth.

Through the Digi skills initiative, about 1.6 million people moved to
the next stage out of a total 2.4 million who had applied for the
programme. The president said besides, the Higher Education Commission
(HEC) was also offering free courses.

He urged the people to learn developing of the software and smart apps
as the global virtual capital or the brick-and-mortar businesses were
also in search of investing in the startups and smart apps developers.

Referring to the technological gap being created due to immense wonders
taking place in the IT field, he said information was the medium in
which people of the world were making strides.

He said the young population of Pakistan could access the global
information world after developing skills in the relevant field.

“There are billions of opportunities for developing the smart apps.
Pakistan is at the jumping board. Pakistan is now changing. The world is
the market for IT gadgets,” he added.

The president further said for the women’s empowerment, TEVTA Punjab in
collaboration with Facebook/Meta had trained 3,000 women to access the
world and were planning further to train about 100,000 females.

He expressed the confidence that youth of the country would prepare
themselves for the rapid IT changes taking place around the world and
would bring laurels to the country, besides getting earning
opportunities. DNA

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