IT Ministry claims that his office is implementing 20 projects worth Rs 16.3 billion to improve broadband and fiber-optic connectivity in Sindh.
The Federal Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication, claims that his office is implementing 20 projects worth Rs 16.3 billion to improve broadband and fiber optic connectivity in Sindh.
At the Telecom Foundation (TF) adoption ceremony for a school with a digitalized curriculum, he gave a speech on Monday in Latifabad.
According to him, the projects would benefit the province’s 11 million residents, who live in 4,185 villages. In addition to announcing the establishment of cutting-edge laboratories in one school in each of the Badin and Thatta districts, he declared that Computer Science I coding instruction for students older than seven years old would start in this institution.
He stated that his ministry’s goal was to provide kids with the most up-to-date technological know-how so they could handle problems that would arise in ten years. He claimed that the ministry had started 70 new projects across the nation for connectivity, totaling Rs 65 billion.
Minister stated that he wanted to make it possible for students to conduct e-banking, e-schooling, and e-agriculture while seated in far-off locations. For dependable connectivity, he said.
“In Sindh, we are investing Rs 16.5 billion in 20 new optic fiber connectivity and broadband service projects. Pakistan has 197 million mobile phone subscribers, but we want 220 million people to hold affordable smart phones with 4G internet capability,” he said.
The minister ruled out early elections, stating that the digitized census would start in March and that delimitations would be completed in four months by the Election Commission of Pakistan. Therefore, he claimed, he did not see polls before October, when this year’s elections were scheduled.
It was the second school the foundation had adopted for digitized education after the one in Orangi Town, according to TF Chief Executive Zomma Mohiuddin. The minister has now revived the TF’s program for adopting schools after it had lain dormant for 21 years.
According to him, the TF would make sure that students older than seven years old received CS First coding instruction so they could prepare their code using pictorial interventions.
With the addition of Orangi and Latifabad’s school, the TF now has 14 schools that it works with. According to him, the foundation had hired Google management based in Singapore to launch the CS First program for students.
He announced that TF would collaborate with the ministry to launch its solar panel program. He stated that these panels would be equipped with a tool to track the panel’s effectiveness for users.
Initiatives like this, according to Hyderabad commissioner Bilal Memon, would change Pakistan if the foundation adopted one school in each of the country’s districts. It was time for IT exports, he said, as earning money through the export of cotton and onions had become a thing of the past.