Comments on: Pakistan at the crossroads of IT Revolution: Salim Ghauri http://ciopakistan.com/2009/06/pakistan-at-the-crossroads-of-it-revolution-salim-ghauri/ CIO Pakistan, an IDG Partner publication, generates and publishes content about the local technology-savvy business and technology community Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:02:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: admin http://ciopakistan.com/2009/06/pakistan-at-the-crossroads-of-it-revolution-salim-ghauri/comment-page-1/#comment-3690 admin Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:58:32 +0000 http://ciopakistan.com/?p=10741#comment-3690 @Javed sahab - Perhaps the title was a bit misleading, but this was being published as part of the discussion on the budget 2010, and not the IT Policy - He has addressed the lack of funding and budgetary constraints that is or will continue to damage the industry. Secondly - How can you say that it is a good time to launch a policy initiative in the ABSENCE of a representative in the government? How short-lived would you like the policy to be? And isn't that something that would be better served in another article since this one does focus on the budgetary impact and NOT the policy? @Javed sahab – Perhaps the title was a bit misleading, but this was being published as part of the discussion on the budget 2010, and not the IT Policy – He has addressed the lack of funding and budgetary constraints that is or will continue to damage the industry.

Secondly – How can you say that it is a good time to launch a policy initiative in the ABSENCE of a representative in the government? How short-lived would you like the policy to be? And isn’t that something that would be better served in another article since this one does focus on the budgetary impact and NOT the policy?

]]> By: Javed Naushahi http://ciopakistan.com/2009/06/pakistan-at-the-crossroads-of-it-revolution-salim-ghauri/comment-page-1/#comment-3689 Javed Naushahi Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:27:28 +0000 http://ciopakistan.com/?p=10741#comment-3689 There is a huge confusion on IT Policy related issues. There are several forces working in paralel without engaging the stakeholders and subject specialist on various components of IT Policy.There is a pakistaniypolicy halla gulla group on yahoo. MoITT has its own itpolicy wiki and yahoogroup. MoITT has organized workshop at Lahore in this regard. Then Planning Commission has jumped in. Policies are always made by the owner of that subject in the country. Like Education policy made by Ministry of Education, and Health Policy made by Ministry of Health, and Petroleum Policy made by ministry of Petroleum. IT Policy can only be made by Ministry of IT, and implemented by Ministry of IT. SInce it is a inter-ministerial effort, it must be governed by higher level minister level IT council, chaired by Prime Minister. Several countries in the region are following this model, good example is Malaysia. In absence of regular IT Minister, Prime Minster has port folio of IT, and this is good time to implement IT Policy Action Plan. There is a huge confusion on IT Policy related issues. There are several forces working in paralel without engaging the stakeholders and subject specialist on various components of IT Policy.There is a pakistaniypolicy halla gulla group on yahoo. MoITT has its own itpolicy wiki and yahoogroup. MoITT has organized workshop at Lahore in this regard. Then Planning Commission has jumped in.

Policies are always made by the owner of that subject in the country. Like Education policy made by Ministry of Education, and Health Policy made by Ministry of Health, and Petroleum Policy made by ministry of Petroleum.

IT Policy can only be made by Ministry of IT, and implemented by Ministry of IT. SInce it is a inter-ministerial effort, it must be governed by higher level minister level IT council, chaired by Prime Minister. Several countries in the region are following this model, good example is Malaysia.

In absence of regular IT Minister, Prime Minster has port folio of IT, and this is good time to implement IT Policy Action Plan.

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