ISLAMABAD, Oct 19 (APP): A high level Jordanian delegation led by Dr. Talal Abu Ghazaleh, Chairman, Talal Abu Ghazaleh Organization (TAG Org) called on Minister of State for IT & Telecom Anusha Rahman here on Wednesday.
Matters pertaining to mutual interest with special focus on Information Communication Technologies were extensively discussed.
Federal Secretary IT Rizwan Bashir Khan and other senior officials from MoIT were also present in the meeting.
Minister welcomed the distinguished guest and thanked for accepting her invitation to visit Pakistan.
The delegates shared some remarkable initiatives and achievements of Tag.Org with the Minister for promotion of ICTs in Jordan and other areas of the world.
The Minister appreciated the role of TAG.Org in creation of new opportunities in ICTs through new business and training modules and its remarkable services rendered for the development of ICTs specially for women and girls.
Anusha Rahman shared with the delegates that our government is pursuing the agenda of “Accelerated Digitalization” with special emphasis on bridging broadband divide to spur socio economic growth across the length and breadth of the country to expend and enhance the volume of our knowledge based economy.
Due to our strenuous efforts our broadband penetration ratio is surpassing 25% which was merely less than 3% earlier.
