National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Tuesday said that digitalizing the work place would improve efficiency and productivity in the working environment of Parliament.
This is an era of paper less and digital based official environment, he expressed these views while inaugurating the project of “re-imagining the National Assembly of Pakistan with Google Workspace’s Advanced Productivity and Collaboration Tools” in Parliament House.
He also said that ensuring privacy in this digital age is a challenge and stressed on the need to ensure end to end encryption for this project . Asad Qaiser has said that it is first Parliament in the region which has adopted Google Workspace to digitize work processes and enhance productivity and collaboration between its members.
He also said that this is a per the Prime Minister’s vision of Digital Pakistan under project “Office Communication and Productivity Suite of Applications for the National Assembly of Pakistan.”While many technology firms competed for the tender, Tech Valley, a local partner for Google Cloud in Pakistan, won the public tender with Google Workspace’s easy-to-use, secure and innovative digital productivity and collaboration tools.
The Speaker appreciated the efforts of the team and said: “With the latest technology and tools being enabled in the National Assembly of Pakistan in the past few months, Google Workspace has been a tremendous addition that will assist members to be more efficient.”
Google Tech Valley CEO briefed that after the successful deployment of Google Workspace, a “Google Day” was observed at the National Assembly to mark this important milestone of digitizing the National Assembly’s back-end processes. During the event, a live demonstration was provided to all members to educate them on how to best leverage these tools to make their day-to-day operations more efficient.
CEO Tech Valley, Umar Farooq added: “Multiple national and international teams have made sure that the productivity tools used by the National Assembly of Pakistan are completely secure and encrypted.”
