Friday, April 11, 2008

PAK Vision 2030 Launched

Pakistan’s Vision 2030, launched by the President in August 2007, calls for a "developed, industrialized, just and prosperous
Pakistan through rapid and sustainable development, in a resource constrained economy by deploying knowledge inputs".

Vision 2030 presents a strategic framework which aims to achieve the stated Vision within a generation, in a manner
that sustains a high quality of life and provides an equal opportunity to its citizens to reach their true potential.

The Vision 2030 document is available at
http://202.83.167.93/pcportal/vision2030.htm

The Global Information Technology Report 2007-2008 Published

Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland lead the rankings
Pakistan and India slip in ICT rankings

Denmark is the most networked economy and continued to top the chart for the second year consecutively in the world, followed by Sweden and Switzerland, according to the last edition of The Global Information Technology Report. Among the top ten, the Republic of Korea (9) and, to a lesser extent, the United States (4) post the most notable improvements.

In South Asia Sri Lanka has improved by seven points up from 86th. in 2006-07 to 79th. In 2007-08 report.

Pakistan has been ranked 89 among 127 countries which were evaluated by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for their 'network readiness'. Last year, it was ranked 84 out of 122 countries. Thus, the country has slipped five places in a constant sample from 2006–07.

Source URL: http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology%20Report/index.htm