17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 18. Promote home grown players in IoT, FinTech, AI and Robotics by encouraging a highly integrated startup ecosystem through collaboration with national and international incubation centers, financial institutions, universities, relevant government departments, industry consultants and associations. Devise appropriate capacity building measures (awareness campaigns, trainings, seminars, and Workshops) to promote smart technologies and increase HR talent pool. Accelerate adoption of IoT, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics and enable costeffective introduction of new technologies, including open standards efforts, targeted federal funding, and impactful public-private partnerships. Actively collaborate with HEC, IT industry and other relevant institutions to modernize the education curriculum to be in sync with the emerging technologies and align to the requirements of the industry. Cloud Computing and Big Data To engage with relevant stakeholders like NADRA, FBR, AGPR and ICT Administration etc. to: 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 18.7 18.8 Integrate Federal Government’s distributed databases to enable data mining and analysis on big data through establishment of state of the art tier 3/4 national level data centers. Enhance the quality of e-Government services through real-time integrated management and data analytics. Discourage the establishment of silo IT infrastructures (small islands) in different government offices to mitigate duplication of efforts, HR requirements and operational expenses. Integrate national and provincial databases to avert duplication and ensure synergy. Remove legal and administrative barriers for exchange of data for citizen-oriented services and pattern analysis. Provision of cloud based citizen centric services for public, paving the way for subsequent transformation to e/m-government. Provide a Common infrastructure platform for Public and Private Sector for the development and implementation of citizen-centric mobile applications to improve the communication between Government and the citizens and to improve the efficiency, agility and Innovation. Promote the cloud infrastructure and associated delivery models (PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS) to be offered across the globe to attract local and international markets through special incentives programs. Focus on capacity building in big data and cloud computing to build requisite skills for effective and efficient delivery of new and improved services. Provide measures for the security of sensitive business & individual data in a big-data environment Section-III: Fiscal & non-fiscal incentives for the IT/ITeS sector Since the launch of first IT Policy in 2000, the IT/ITeS sector has registered a remarkable growth during the last 17 years. The telecom infrastructure expansion across the country has played a Digital Pakistan Policy Page 17