ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT )
The 38th Board of Directors meeting of National ICT R&D Fund Company was held at MoIT today on 10th September, 2015 under the chairpersonship of Minister of State for Information Technology Ms. Anusha Rahman. Federal Secretary IT Mr. Azmat Ali Ranjha, CEO National ICT R&D Fund Company Mr. Asif Roomi CEO ICT R&D Co, Member (Telecom) Mr. Mudassar Hussain, MD, PSEB Mr. Asim Shehryar, Member (HR) Mr.Tahir Mushtaq, Chairman PTA Syed Ismail Shah and other Members of the Board, were also present in the meeting. The Board reviewed and approved the RFP for “tech-city”, which is an incubation project for IT start ups. The RFP will be open for all domestic and international experts in the field for bidding. The Minister categorically stated that Government is keen to nurture and entrepreneurship and work on capacity building of human resource in the ICT sector. Therefore, this National incubation project will serve both purposes. She further said that the prime object of the ICT R&D Fund company is to promote Research and innovation in the country. Hence academia and industry both have to be engaged for achieving the desired goals. Minister also directed CEO ICT R&D Fund Company to devise an aggressive monitoring and evaluation mechanism for all those research projects which are being awarded by the company, with measurable and tangible KPIs in order to bring more transparency in the system. Another project for training and certification in the field of cloud computing was also approved by the Board. This project will be hosted by PTA.