Pakistan wins seat on ITU administrative council

Pakistan secured 101 votes out of a total of 168 votes. IT minister nominated for GEMTECH 2014 award

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been elected to the administrative council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

According to an official release, Pakistan won the seat at the administrative council of ITU during the elections held during the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference currently in progress in Busan, South Korea.

Pakistan secured 101 votes out of a total of 168 votes to secure a position in the administrative, management and policy making body of the telecommunication body.

The Council is the premier board for global telecom’s policy making body of the UN with a mandate to consider broad global policy issues in the field of ICTs and telecommunications, and thereby ensure that the Union’s policies, activities and strategy fully respond to today’s dynamic and fast-changing environment.

The members of the Council are elected for a term of four years by the members of ITU at the Plenipotentiary Conference.

The victory is attributed to the collective efforts of government and the telecom industry of Pakistan and is a testimony of renewed confidence of the world community in the policy adopted by the Pakistani government for growth in ICT sectors and also recognises the important role that the world community expects Pakistan to play in the global ICT policy arena.

Rahman selected for GEMTECH 2014 award

The Minister of State for Telecommunication Anusha Rahman has been leading the campaign throughout and she is the finalist of “GEMTECH Award, 2014”. It is pertinent to mention here that Pakistan had lost its position in the previous Plenipotentiary, held in 2010.

Rahman was selected for initiating a number of projects and programmes that have brought Pakistan closer to the international pace of growth in the IT industry, that enable enhanced role of women in the sector as well as enhanced benefit of women in general from ICT services and systems.

These include information sharing mechanisms on areas like maternity health, disbursing stipends to school going girls and welfares to poverty ridden families and the legislation for the prevention of Cyber Crime bill.