Information technology in Pakistan

Information technology in Pakistan

Information Technology in Pakistan is a growing and rising industry that has a lot of potential. Matters relating to the IT industry are overseen and regulated by the Ministry of Information Technology of the Government of Pakistan. The IT industry is Regarded as a successful sector of Pakistan Economically, even in financial crisis The Government of Pakistan has given numerous incentives to IT investors in the country during the last decade, this resulted in the development of the IT sector. In the years'' 2002-2011'' the country's IT exports saw a rise of about fifty percent and amounted a total of about58.5 million USD. The World Economic Forum, assessing the development of Information and Communication Technology in the country ranked Pakistan 122th among 144 countries in the Global Information Technology report of 2014. As of 2011, Pakistan has over 40million internet users and is ranked as one of the top countries that have registered a high growth rate in internet penetration. Overall, it has the 27th largest population of internet users in the world. In the fiscal year 2012-2013, the Government of Pakistan aims to spend Rs.6.8 billion on information technology projects, with emphasis on e-government, human resource and infrastructure development. There is a growing demand for software and programme development in local languages. Computer software such as InPage were amongst the first computer programmes developed in Pakistan that specifically catered to creating pages in various local languages using local scripts and fonts. The Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing conducts research and development in linguistic and computational Aspects of Urdu, as well as other languages of Pakistan, in areas: such as speech processing, computational linguistics and script processing..... Also Sindhi've Been digitized to make it Easier to publish Sindhi newspapers, magazines and books. Also InPage offers support for Sindhi With The proper fonts and ligatures Which Makes It Easier for people to type in the Sindhi language without any difficulty.

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