The government of Pakistan aims to achieve the following objectives with this policy:
- To reduce time to procure and time to launch by maintaining a pre-accredited list of CSP.
- To reduce the cost of ICT infrastructure by paying only for the services that are utilized.
- To encourage investment in cloud services by local and International CSP in Pakistan.
- To facilitate CSP achieve economies of scale.
- To provide enhanced information security to end-users via cloud offerings.
- To provide transparency to citizens with digital government solutions.
- To increase utilization of cloud solutions by transitioning from local hosting to cloud hosting.
- To foster a digital entrepreneurship ecosystem by providing readily available cloud services.
- To attain optimization via aggregation of resources.
- To develop a cloud enabled workforce.
- To obtain environmental benefits achieved by optimized use of resources.
- To put forward a synchronized approach to ICT procurement across the governments/provinces.