A local software company has been selected after rigorous diligence by the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro), to take part in "Jetro Outsourcing Fair for IT & Software-2005." in Japan. The event is a regular annual feature and it is the first time that a Pakistani firm has been allowed to participate. The selected firm, Ora-Tech Systems Private Limited would attend the international mega event in the last week of January in Tokyo, to be attended by over 600,000 foreign information technology (IT) players.

The participants-software developers, designers and architects- will have good opportunity to be aware of latest developments in the field and more so to grab potential business.

Ora-Tech Systems (Pvt) Limited executive vice president, Syed Asim Zafar told Business Recorder here on Friday that "We have planned to market indigenous developed local software for financial and industrial sector."

He said, "The mega exhibition organised every year provides opportunity to international software houses to market their products and during the event projects amounting to millions of dollar will be materialised."

Presently, the major pie of software and IT related services internationally was grabbed by China, India, Israel, Ireland and some other countries, Asim Zafar added.

Ora-Tech EVP said Pakistan had immense human resource capital that could be market for Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and other services.

It is worth mentioning here that Jetro is a Japanese government's entity that works to promote mutual trade and investment between the country and the rest of the world.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2005