Chambers asked to exchange information

Expert says collaboration a must in age of inventions, cutting-edge technologies

FAISALABAD:

Expeditious exchange of information through reliable linkages between chambers is essential to survive in this age of rapid inventions and cutting-edge technologies, said Pakistan Scientific and Technological Information Centre (PASTIC) Director General Muhammad Akram Sheikh.

In a virtual meeting with the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) and Sargodha Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Saturday, he said that workable relation between different chambers was necessary to collaborate and share their knowledge, database and experience for the benefit of each other. “Pakistan Science Foundation and PASTIC are ready to play their key role in this connection,” he remarked, adding that the centre had expertise in computing and could provide much-needed information to the chambers.

He emphasised the need to develop a joint database of different trade bodies.

The focus of the government was on enhancing industrial production and exports with special emphasis on value addition, he underlined.

On the occasion, PASTIC Deputy Director Muhammad Hasnain underlined that they were making continuous efforts to convince students to adopt science subjects for their future studies.

“We are also providing necessary information to PhD scholars for their research projects,” he said and added that due to the efforts, a large number of students had switched to science subjects.

FCCI’s Standing Committee on Research and Development Chairman Ahmad Hassan said that rapid scientific developments had posed new challenges to the emerging countries that were competing with the developed world.

“Our industrial sector is still using obsolete versions of machinery and technologies, which are neither cost effective nor efficient,” he lamented.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 30^th, 2022.

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