Telecenters provide e-services in rural Pakistan

Anthony Nwakaegho/DigitalSENSE Business News

The Pakistan Minister for Information TechnologyMs. Anusha Rahman said Tele-centers established across   the country would facilitate e-services including e-health, e-learning, e-commerce, e-agriculture in rural areas.

Rahman gave the hint while chairing a meeting and said that the Tele-center Project will create local employment and entrepreneurship opportunities and extend broadband to provide distance education and Information Communication Technology (ICT) literacy.

DigitalSENSE Business News learnt from her briefing that empowering the people of Pakistan through seamless access to accurate information and reliable services by means of ICT applications, telecom platforms and establishing a knowledge based economy is the vision and objective of the government.

The Universal Services Fund (USF) Company while giving a briefing on the project proposal said thatthe telecenters will offer local community with state of art computer equipment and broadband facility, while several e-services will be hosted on the infrastructure to facilitate people of un-served, underserved and far flung areas.

The company explained that the programme will be run all over the country and special consultation will be undertaken with provincial governments to cater to their specific requirements, to be incorporated in the project that will house biometric verification of SIM cards, birth/death registration and computer training to the youth of the nation.

Tele-center is a shared site that provides public access to information and communication technologies, where people can access computer and internet that enables them to gather information, create, learn and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skill.

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