The Punjab government launched a Web 3.0 portal to become the first province in the country to introduce the third generation of the World Wide Web.
A special web portal (web3.punjab.gov.pk) was launched for the registration of Web 3.0 contributors including researchers, scientists and IT industry experts.
National and international companies working with Web 3.0 technology will also be able to submit their valuable feedback through the portal.
Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi constituted a committee on the adoption of Web 3.0 in the province led by Punjab Finance Minister Mohsin Leghari and Punjab Information Technology (IT) Minister Dr Arslan Khalid held its meeting at Arfa Software Technology Park.
The world is moving towards the third generation of the web i.e. Web 3.0. It started with web 1.0 (1990–2004) which is referred to as “read-only Web”, web 2.0 (2005-2014) referred to as “participative social” and web 3.0 (2015-onward) as “read, write, execute Web”.
Web 3.0 is the third iteration of the internet that combines a bouquet of disruptive technologies such as Blockchain, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Cloud, Edge, Internet of Things, Geolocation tech & 5G etc. It runs on an AI-based analytics layer for data-driven insights. The underlying Blockchain technology enables trust and provides the next level of data security.
