The government has finalised 27 knowledge economy-based projects for advancing the country technologically to meet the upcoming and present economic challenges. Federal Secretary Planning Development and Reforms Zafar Hasan stated this while briefing the Senate Standing Committee on Planning Development and Reform which met here with Senator Agha Shahzaib Durrani in the chair on Friday.
The secretary planning gave a briefing to the participants of the meeting on the knowledge economy-based projects in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) 2019-20. Hasan said that the government had already established a taskforce on knowledge economy in December 2018, considering the need to compete in the growingly world economy. He added that under the knowledge based economy, 27 projects have been finalised which will be taken to PC-I stage. He said that these projects are identified after extensive consultation sessions held with the taskforce which consists of locally and globally experienced people.
The projects include genome sequencing and editing enhancement of plant and animal productivity, advanced skills development through international scholarships with focus on emerging sciences, establishment of centre for advanced technologies in biomedical materials, establishment of facilities for industrial production of nano-materials, establishment of national centre for industrial biotechnology, establishment of postgraduate centre for artificial intelligence in agriculture and health sciences and mineral resources assessment for energy storage materials supply chain in Pakistan.
He further said that Pak-China University of Engineering and Emerging Technologies, national centres of research, innovation entrepreneurship in artificial intelligence and allied technologies phase-I, blended virtual education for knowledge economy, crime analytics and smart policing in Pakistan, demand-driven industry quality and capacity enhancement programme, e-invoicing including feasibility and establishment of digital complex are part of government's plan of knowledge based economy.
Under the plan, establishment of Sino-Pak centre for artificial intelligence, Jiddat investment and support fund including feasibility, national centre for IoTs, national expansion plan of NICs including feasibility, national freelance training programme, technology marketing export programme including feasibility, pilot project for blended e-learning in 500 schools of federal capital and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and pilot project for STEM teaching grades 8-12, national strategic programme for acquisition of industrial technology.
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