It is heartening to know that Pakistan has embarked upon Digital Policy. It is in line with the United Nations directives. The policy’s vision is “The Government of Pakistan (GoP) strives to improve its citizens’ quality of life and economic wellbeing by ensuring availability of accessible, affordable, reliable, universal and high quality ICT services. GoP strongly believes in mass adoption of emerging digital technologies and innovative applications to enable cross-sector socio-economic development and transformation of economic activities, governance models, social interaction and achievement of sustainable development goals.”
A simple question arises, do we have any or least infrastructure for providing information communication technology services to majority of our population. Where load-shedding is uncontrollable, where basic amenities of life are out of reach of most of the people, where prices of average mobiles and their affordability is beyond reach, how a digital policy can benefit masses. It is earnestly requested that government must focus on provision of jobs to millions of unemployed youth.
Maria Arshad, Islamabad
