NetSol Technology Ltd Chairman and CEO Salim Ghauri urged the government to promote collaborations with foreign Information Technology institutions and set up a working group with the objective to identify and articulate issue related staff development, student exchange, joint R&D and teaching and learning programmes.
He said this while talking to a group of students from different information technology institutions who visited NetSol Technologies. Salim Ghauri said that focus of such initiatives should be exchange of students, staff members, research scientists, and institutional managers for short periods to generate and guarantee continued scientific and scholarly co-operation.
He said such initiatives should also promote co-operative and collaborative linkages to enhance their scientific, technical and engineering competencies and to develop future programmes of mutual interest and benefit of IT institutions. Salim further said there is an urgent need of higher degree training to teaching staff working at the IT institutions locally, and joint conferences, seminars, symposia, summer courses and short courses can play vital role in this regard.
Exchanging publications and other scientific materials for scientific, scholarly, educational and information to strengthen the friendly relationship between the institutions, he added. He said MSc and PhD for students from Pakistan and organisation of joint research activities may be supported by the exchange of scientists, scholars and technical staff members.