ISLAMABAD: Korea Exim Bank has started work on a feasibility study for a new Information Technology Park on Pakistan Software Export Board's (PSEB) land in Chak Shahzad and the loan agreement is expected to be signed by fall of 2016.
According to an official source, work on IT park in Islamabad would be followed by studies and construction of new IT Parks on PSEB's land in Karachi and Lahore in future.
The IT Park would attract international companies to develop software and hardware solutions and will also help boost the country's IT exports.
PSEB has 12 Software Technology Parks (STPs) in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi providing IT-enabled office space.
The board has placed 800 IT graduates as interns at IT companies over last two years and is planning to place 3,000 more IT graduates on internship in the IT industry in 2016-17.
PSEB has trained fresh ICT graduates in Gaming, Android Application Development, iPhone programming, Agile based mobile application development and Dot Net programming.
PSEB deployed 800 IT graduates as interns at IT companies during the year 2013-15. Overall, 5,800 IT graduates have been deployed as interns at IT companies during the last decade.
The valid registrations of IT and ITeS companies with PSEB increased by 71% from 681 companies in June 2013 to 1,162 companies in February 2016, even though it is not mandatory for IT companies to register with PSEB.
PSEB and its member IT companies exhibited at IT events in China, Dubai, Kenya, and Spain generating more than 500 foreign leads.
The board has established a Counseling Center on a 24/7 basis to guide and mentor fresh graduates, entrepreneurs and IT startups.
PSEB has organized workshops with MIT Enterprise Forum of Pakistan and CEOs of leading IT companies in Islamabad and Peshawar so far to train entrepreneurs and also sponsorsed and supported student competitions at university level.
The board is in process of implementing registration of freelancers and to provide them incentives and specialized trainings in order to create employment of our youth.
PSEB is also planning to train freelancers in the country in 2016-17 on improving their freelancing skills and revenue.
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