Dr Umar Saif Chairman Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) said this while addressing the visiting Russian IT delegation here on Wednesday. Dr Saif said that Russian IT solutions for our public and private sectors would be beneficial in terms of expertise and technology transfer, which was needed to be result-oriented. In order to start activity, education, health and revenue areas should be targeted by working on one Danish school, one university, one hospital and some online tax payment solutions for the Punjab Revenue Authority, he added.
Earlier, the members of the delegation gave a detailed presentation on the integrated IT based solutions in the education sector being implemented over 100 schools in Russia. The presentation included new gadgets for vocational skills programming with logical thinking problem solutions.
The two-day visit is in the backdrop of the 5th Pak-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission (IGC) on trade, economic and scientific-technical cooperation meeting, held in Moscow in November last year. In the conference, Russian side shared its willingness to collaborate with Pakistan in multiple areas including prospective projects in the field of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs). The areas agreed include e-government solutions, public sector automation, healthcare, citizen centric multifunctional service centres, financial and payment system.
The Russian IT organization for future correspondence in the field of ICTs is a state owned Limited Liability Company RusITExport (LLC RITE). Recently on the invitation of CEO LLC RITE a delegation of Punjab IT Board visited Moscow, which opened up new avenues of bilateral relations between the two countries in terms of Information & Telecommunication Technologies.