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Marketing
PSEB promotes the image of Pakistan’s IT industry in key markets
abroad, enables trade interaction with international parties,
and facilitates the entry of multinational development and
support centers in Pakistan.
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In the fiscal year 2007-2008, PSEB sponsored the
participation of sixty-five member companies in seven
international tradeshows and delegations, one domestic
conference, participated in forty-two TV interviews, seven
radio interviews, ninety-one magazine interviews and
articles, and has issued over forty-two press releases,
which resulted in several hundred articles. PSEB’s events
were covered in several dozen TV news clippings.
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PSEB ran four
international promotional campaigns. Almost two hundred and
eighty-two leads were passed on to member companies, in
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To date in
the current fiscal year 2008-2009, PSEB sponsored the
participation of twenty-four member companies in one
international tradeshow and two domestic conferences,
participated in twenty-three TV interviews, nineteen
magazine interviews and articles, and has issued over ten
press releases, which resulted in several hundred articles.
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Newly-appointed Secretary IT and Telecom, Mr. Naguibullah
Malik, visited PSEB’s head office in Islamabad, where he was
comprehensively briefed regarding PSEB’s activities.
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Pakistan’s
premier annual IT and telecom show, “ITCN ASIA 2009” will be
held at Karachi Expo Center from 11th-13th August 2009. This
exhibition provides a unique platform to IT companies to
showcase their products and services, and to engage in
business networking. Expressions of Interest are invited
from PSEB’s member IT companies to participate in ITCN Asia
2009.
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PSEB in
continuation to its international marketing activities
intends to publish a revised edition of IT Industry Year
Book. Pakistan IT Industry Year Book aims to document
the profiles of PSEB member IT companies into a publication
that presented an accurate and detailed picture of the
Pakistan IT Industry and its multifold growth over the past
few years. In this regard a newsletter will be circulated in
due course of time.
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Office Space Provision
PSEB plans to build IT Parks in Pakistan’s different cities.
It currently operates over 700,000 square feet of Software
Technology Parks (STP) in eleven buildings across the country.
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In the fiscal year 2007-2008, PSEB launched its first
state-of-the-art National IT/Knowledge Park project through an
international tender process to provide affordable and quality
IT-enabled workspace to local and international ICT companies.
PSEB acquired approximately 15 acres of land at a prime location
in Islamabad for this IT Park. PSEB has also selected an
international consortium as “Preferred Bidder/Developer” after
evaluating its proposal.
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Industry Human Capital
PSEB works with
the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to increase the influx
of quality graduates into the IT industry, facilitates the
matching of graduates with IT companies, provides ongoing
training and certification to professionals, and undertakes
research to benchmark IT professionals and graduates in the
country.
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To date, in the current
fiscal year, 1160 interns have been placed under PSEB’s
“Internships Phase-III” project, which has been extended
till December 2009.
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Three companies have been selected for a specialized
training grant in the current fiscal year.
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Company
Capability Development
PSEB sponsors IT companies’
quality and information security
certification to enhance their
international competitiveness.
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In the last fiscal year, 2007-2008, under PSEB-sponsored
programs, fifteen CMMi L2 rating and five ISO 27001
certifications were obtained. Two companies became SEI
transition partners, and three individuals became SCAMPI
appraisers. Pakistan now has over 110 ISO-certified IT
companies, over 200 ISO 9001 IT lead auditors, and will have
over 25 CMMi-rated companies by the end of the current year,
making it a world leader in this category.
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The selection procedure of training
companies for the lead implementer’s
training in ISO 27001 is currently
under process.
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Facilitation
PSEB facilitates IT companies
in their interaction with
various Government agencies.
It also launches programs in
strategically-important areas
where the private sector is
shy of investing.
In the last year, the Open
Source Resource Center (OSRC)
has conducted twenty-six
workshops, trained over four
hundred and fifty people,
facilitated one migration, and
published
internationally-recognized
training toolkits.
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In the last fiscal year
2007-2008, visa processing was facilitated for one hundred
and fourteen individuals. Foreign currency remittance NOCs
to purchase software were processed and issued to seven
companies, and corporate advisory services have been
provided to numerous companies and individuals.
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To date, in the current fiscal year, visa processing was
facilitated for forty-nine individuals, and corporate
advisory services have been provided to numerous companies
and individuals.
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PSEB registered twenty-two new IT companies and
twenty-four new call centers during this reporting period.
Thirty-one IT companies and nine call centers renewed their
registration.
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In the last fiscal year 2007-2008, the Open Source Resource
Center (OSRC) conducted forty training workshops and
awareness-raising seminars, trained over eight hundred and
sixty people, facilitated four computer network migrations,
and published a new, downloadable training toolkit on
Asterisk Open Source PBX. It also sponsored and presented at
two national conferences on open source technologies, and
published two articles on open source.
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OSRC’s latest article, entitled "Your Money-saving Guide to
Open Source Resources", has been published in Dawn on Sunday
newspaper's Sci-tech World section, on 5th April 2009. It
highlights open source as a money-saving solution during the
current global and national financial recession.
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From 18th-20th May 2009, the OSRC trained 20 participants in
Linux’s administration and migration track at the National
Database and Registration Authority’s (NADRA) headquarters
in Islamabad.
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The
OSRC will launch its 2-day,
free-of-cost Open Source Database Management System Training
Program, in collaboration with EnterpriseDB Corporation,
USA, in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, using PostgreSQL, a
powerful, open source object-relational database system.
The tentative dates for the
training program to be held in the following cities are:
* Islamabad:
29th-30th June 2009
* Lahore: 6th-7th July 2009
* Karachi: 13th-14th July 2009
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