Industries urged to prepare for emerging technologies

Islamabad : Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics and internet of things (IoTs) are poised to unleash the next wave of digital disruption, and industrial sectors should prepare for it, said President Dr. Arif Alvi on Tuesday.He was chairing a meeting of the Taskforce on Emerging Technologies, at Aiwan-e-Sadr, here.The meeting was also attended by Federal Minster for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, and various IT experts from across the country.The president said dynamically evolving Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) were playing a key role towards Digital Transformation and had crossed sectoral significance in terms of fourth industrial revolution.He said digitally-enabled transformation had many components, one of which was to continue to invest in the development of important key digital enablers like digital identity, shared data services, shared business processes, technology centres, etc. and provide incentives for their use across the public sector, so building an innovation ecosystem was also an essential ingredient.The president said the government was already making efforts to enhance the environment of innovation through different start-ups in emerging technologies.The president said next decade in Pakistan would be the decade of ICT revolution based on a futuristic telecom infrastructure, for which Pakistan must have necessary ingredients i.e. the infrastructure, a great number of educated youth in IT & Telecom and a population willing to adapt to new technologies.

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