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Message of
President & CEO
Techaccess
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WTISD
2010
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Iqtidar Zaidi
President & CEO
Techaccess Pakistan
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The World Telecommunication & Information Society
Day is celebrated with the objective of making
information more accessible to people and increasing
the global reach of technology across all nations and
socio-economic strata. The information explosion, as
else where in the world, has resulted in both the inflow
of technology and building of expertise in Pakistan.
This expertise, if harnessed properly and calibrated
with our educational pursuits, holds the key to very
exciting possibilities.
We at Techaccess believe in a knowledge-based
economy and are alive to the social implications of
industrial initiatives. For a productive economy the gap
between an innovative idea and its utilization as a
product or service forms the critical measure of
sustenance and dynamic survival. An economy cannot
be dynamic and resilient unless its education is aligned
to real world challenges. Every element of this
ecosystem must contribute to sustain the ecology as a
whole. Techaccess for instance, has created inroads
within the industry and academia by encouraging
exposure to production environments and goals. This,
apart from other activities, also includes creation of
Techaccess-NUST Research & Development Center
as a joint collaboration with NUST SEECS to seed
entrepreneurship and also serve as a platform to
encourage new products and services.
As the technology advances, a need arises to bridge
the digital divide between the urban haves and the rural
have-nots. We must employ ICTs to bring closer the
urban and the rural, and make “haves” out of the “have-
nots”. We can harness the power of technology to
better our cities and our lives as better communication
means faster solutions. Better control and better
foresight, become the tools to mould a better world.
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