Under this project, the KPITB aims to establish Software technologies parks (STP’s) in 15 public sector universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 7 STP’s in collaboration with the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) in different secondary cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa i.e. Peshawar, Abbottabad, Swat, Bannu, Kohat, Mardan, DI Khan and Waziristan. The aim of establishing software technology parks is to encourage the IT companies and facilitate the fresh graduates to flourish IT industry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Objectives
- The objective is to provide IT Enabled workspaces to IT companies at discounted rates to support and encourage the IT industry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- To encourage collaboration, digitization and innovation in both traditional socio-economic sectors and emerging technologies
Benefits/Outcomes
- Promotion of the IT Technology sector and IT talent pool at the grass-root level in each district.
- Promotion of the IT sector of Pakistan.
- Minimizing migration of talent to metropolitan cities.
- Creating more tech-savvy workers.
- Generating direct and indirect employment opportunities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accommodating the unemployed talent pool with remarkable job opportunities.
- Jump starting IT business activities in secondary and tertiary cities of Pakistan.
- Increasing industry-academia collaboration.