Senior Advisor of the International Trade Centre of the lead UN Agency for Development of Trade and Commerce (UNCTAD) James Howe Leslie called on Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecommunication Anusha Rahman, here on Friday and discussed issues of mutual interest including E-commerce platforms and other value chain component as well as E-solutions. The discussion was with specific reference to enabling Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to have viable online businesses.
The minister apprised James that Pakistan has taken many concrete steps to create an enabling environment for E-commerce online businesses. She said that Pakistan is spearheading e commerce related initiative in WTO and our mission at WTO is bringing together like minded countries to take forward the E-commerce related agenda.
The minister highlighted the infrastructure in Pakistan that had been put in place in IT & Telecom sector and informed the delegate that we have created an holistic digital ecosystem So that online businesses could flourish. We have already connected more than 40 million people through mobile broadband in the last two years.
Anusha Rehman further said that we have a friendly investment policies is particularly focusing on promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship. In this regard we have established National Incubation Centre with public private partnership and going to establish three more such incubation centres in three major cities of Pakistan.-PR