Contents
List of Acronyms............................................................................................................................................. 3
Policy Vision & Goals...................................................................................................................................... 5
Policy Vision.................................................................................................................................................... 5
Policy Objectives ............................................................................................................................................ 5
Digital Pakistan Policy Strategy ................................................................................................................... 8
Section-I: Key Components........................................................................................................................... 8
1.
Legislation ........................................................................................................................................... 8
2.
Infrastructure Development ................................................................................................................ 8
3.
Human Resource Development, Entrepreneurship, R&I and Freelancing in IT ................................. 9
4.
Software Exports ............................................................................................................................... 10
5.
ICT for Girls ........................................................................................................................................ 11
6.
Local Languages Content Development .......................................................................................... 11
7.
Persons with disabilities (PWDs) ....................................................................................................... 12
8.
Open Source ...................................................................................................................................... 12
9. Local Manufacturing of Hardware ..................................................................................................... 12
10.
e-Governance ................................................................................................................................ 13
Section-II: Enabling the digitization of key socio-economic sectors....................................................... 14
11.
e-Agriculture .................................................................................................................................. 14
12.
e-Health ......................................................................................................................................... 14
13.
e-Energy......................................................................................................................................... 15
14.
e-Commerce .................................................................................................................................. 15
15.
e-Justice ......................................................................................................................................... 16
16.
ICT Education................................................................................................................................. 16
17.
IoT, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics ............................................................................. 16
18.
Cloud Computing and Big Data..................................................................................................... 17
Section-III: Fiscal & non-fiscal incentives for the IT/ITeS sector .............................................................. 17
Section IV: Policy Implementation & Reviews .......................................................................................... 20
Annexure-1 ................................................................................................................................................... 21
References .................................................................................................................................................... 24
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