Policy Vision & Goals Policy Vision The Government of Pakistan (GOP) strives to improve its citizens’ quality of life and economic well-being 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. The vision with regards to Digital Pakistan Policy is: To become a strategic enabler for an accelerated digitization eco system to expand the knowledge based economy and spur socio economic growth Policy Objectives I. Holistic Digital strategy A key goal of the Digital Pakistan Policy is to create a digital ecosystem with infrastructure and institutional frameworks for the rapid delivery of innovative digital services, applications and content. This policy represents a shift away from a piece-meal approach to a holistic technology strategy clearly focused on ICT as a broad enabler of every sector of socioeconomic development. II. Sectorial Digitalization Promote the use of technology in education, health, agriculture and other key socio economic sectors. Encourage the use of ICT in public schools and ensure they are online and have a meaningful impact on the current education eco-system in a phased manner. III. E/M-Commerce Enhance the current market size of e/m-commerce. According to some estimates, the market carries an enormous growth potential due to exponential growth in broadband subscribers from 3.7 million in 2013 to over 44.3 million in 2017 and increasing. With these growth trends projected to persist in the future, overseas investments will continue to grow in e-commerce. Promote e-commerce by providing and enabling an environment where Payment Service Providers (PSP) and Payment Service Operators (PSO) can operate and establish an effective e-commerce platform and take e-commerce activities in Pakistan to the next level. IV. Youth, Women and Girls empowerment using IT Youth and Women represent roughly 60% and 49% respectively of the population. Ensuring women and girls have equal access to ICTs will help reduce inequalities and support gender Digital Pakistan Policy Page 5