Pakistan government working on e-governance to ensure transparency

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government is working on an e-government master plan to ensure transparency and accountability, and promote digitisation in the country, a minister said today.

Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecom Anusha Rehman said the plan is aimed at providing e-services to the general public through an efficient and effective mechanism.

Addressing a workshop in the capital, she said the plan would cover all possible areas including e-learning, e-health and e-agriculture, Radio Pakistan reported.

She said the plan would help promote collaboration, digitisation and innovation in both traditional socio-economic sectors and new emerging technologies.

Rehman said the government has set a mission of accelerated digitisation to expand knowledge-based economy and spur economic growth.

To achieve this objective, technology parks will also be set up in different cities and already 45-acre of land has been acquired at Chak Shahzad in suburbs of Islamabad to establish IT park.

Feasibility of the project will be ready by next month. She said universal telecenters will be set up to provide e-services to the people at their doorsteps.