Zubair Qureshi Islamabad
Telecom Foundation and Tech Valley Pakistan on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the underprivileged children and students through Google’s technology and ICT based solutions.
Federal Secretary Ministry of IT and Telecommunication Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui witnessed the signing ceremony.
Later while, speaking on the occasion, Secretary IT said the initiative by Telecom Foundation and Tech Valley was directly in line with the vision of the government and the Ministry of IT and Telecommunication in fulfillment of a digital and welfare based Pakistan.
Last year the privileges of making a living through online coding and using digital platforms were provided through the same partnership under the MoITT to the underprivileged children in the Telecom Foundation schools in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad and following the success of that, the same facility is now being extended to the schools in Peshawar, Mianwali, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, and Quetta.
The Secretary IT appreciated the efforts of the new TF management over the past 18 months in reviving it and reassured his ministry’s continued support to the Foundation in its initiatives in digital social welfare expansion.
President & CEO of Telecom Foundation Syed Zomma Mohiuddin said that the Google MoU also included more google programmes than the CS First and was part of the many steps taken by the Foundation for the first time in its 30 year.
