PITB, KPITB sign MoU to promote IT services

Collaboration will ensure efficient public service delivery to grassroots level

The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board (KPITB) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Friday to promote bilateral cooperation in information and communication technology-enabled services.

Under the MoU, multiple initiatives would be launched for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in collaboration with KPITB, including its flagship projects like e-stamping, citizen facilitation centres, e-rozgar, Plan-9, SMS Portal and complain management, e-filing, and office automation system, small monitoring of development projects and human resource management information system.

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While addressing the meeting, the chief guest and Special Assistant to KP Chief Minister for ST&IT Kamran Khan Bangash said the signing of an MoU was a major step towards bringing reforms in both provinces through information technology interventions.

“The collaboration will ensure efficient and accessible public service delivery to the grassroots level,” he added.

PITB Chairman Azfar Manzoor said besides providing technical support to KPITB for IT initiatives in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PITB will replicate different key projects of KPITB in Punjab as well including e-procurement to make it the top e-governed and IT-enabled province.

The MoU was signed by Punjab IT Board Chairman Azfar Manzoor and KPITB Managing Director Dr Shahbaz Khan.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2019.