IT Park: Korea Exim Bank starts study
The board has placed 800 IT graduates as interns in IT companies over the last two years
ISLAMABAD:
Korea Exim Bank has started work on a feasibility study for setting up an information technology park on a piece of land of the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) in Chak Shahzad. A loan agreement for the project is expected to be signed by the fall of 2016. According to an official, work on the IT park would be followed by studies and construction of new parks on the PSEB land in Karachi and Lahore. The park will attract international companies for developing software and hardware solutions and will also help boost the country’s IT exports. PSEB has 12 software technology parks in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi that provide IT-enabled office space. The board has placed 800 IT graduates as interns in IT companies over the last two years and is planning to provide internship to 3,000 more graduates in financial year 2016-17.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2016.
Korea Exim Bank has started work on a feasibility study for setting up an information technology park on a piece of land of the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) in Chak Shahzad. A loan agreement for the project is expected to be signed by the fall of 2016. According to an official, work on the IT park would be followed by studies and construction of new parks on the PSEB land in Karachi and Lahore. The park will attract international companies for developing software and hardware solutions and will also help boost the country’s IT exports. PSEB has 12 software technology parks in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi that provide IT-enabled office space. The board has placed 800 IT graduates as interns in IT companies over the last two years and is planning to provide internship to 3,000 more graduates in financial year 2016-17.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2016.