Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) on Monday inked an agreement for providing Cloud Computing Services to Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU). Under the umbrella of Cloud Computing Services, PTCL offering the Web space, email, Unified Collaboration Services bundled with EVO access for the students, teachers and management of AIOU.
The service will benefit more than 1.3 million students of AIOU, enrolled in various courses from across Pakistan. AIOU enrolls more than 700,000 students every six months and an equal number passes out each semester. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Dr Nazir A Sangi, Vice Chancellor AIOU and Samer Ajjawi, Advisory Team Member Business Development Etisalat.
The agreement was signed by Zahid Mahmood, PTCL GM Corporate Sales North and AIOU Registrar Muhammad Bashir Chaudhry Tariq Salman, PTCL Chief Technical Officer (CTO) said "PTCL business solutions are designed to enable growth and diversity and 'Taleemi Cloud' is a unique product which provides end-to-end data and solution integration and access for remote learning. The service is geared towards filling the void in this underserved segment, and shall provide increased educational opportunities in Pakistan."
Samer Ajjawi, Advisory Team Member Business Development Etisalat said the collaboration will enable and contribute towards serving the AIOU initiatives for online educational needs of students across Pakistan and PTCL remains committed to provide technological support for the current and future ICT needs of AIOU.-PR
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