This realization has resulted
in the massive demand for the IT education in the country which is clear from
the mushrooming of institutions in every nook and corner of the urban centers in
Pakistan. These IT institutions offer an array of certificates, diplomas and
degree courses. Basically the IT institutions in Pakistan can be divided into
three primary classes-the government institutions, private institutions with
foreign affiliations, and the totally locally owned and operate institutions.
The IT phenomenon has taken Pakistan like a storm which poses many questions
about the quality of IT education imparted by these institutions and its
relevance to the local job market. The basic question is are we producing enough
IT professionals to meet the demand and secondly, and more importantly.
South Asian countries-India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and in that
order-are the only countries in the world which have anglo – saxon traditions
and English language proficiency. Now computer is an anglo- saxon and English–
speaking devise and so south Asia is the only region of the world today which
can benefit for such inherent advantages as many other English- speaking
countires like the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand have all short
supply. “So the south asian regaion is today sitting at boom situation similar
to that of oil short supply. “so the south asian region is today sitting at boom
situation similar to that of oil boom situation similar to that of oil boom in
the middle East in the late 1960s and we have to ready ourselves for this
situation. The only difference is that your had to ready yourself than to dig
oil wells while here we have to produce more IT manpower.
Presently Pakistan is producing now more than 2500-3000 quality I.T.
Professionals every year and because of this tremendious shortage we are not
able to achieve the kind of software expoet volumes that we want to. In
comparison, India is producing some 110,000 IT professionals annually and that
too for the last 15 fifteen years. It has a critical mass available of 1.5
million IT professionals to enable it to export $ 4 billions of software through
official channels and another $ 4 billion through unofficial channels.It is
targeting $ 100 billion of software exports in next five years and I think it
will achieve it. That is basically we are looking at and it’s our vision to help
produce that kind of quality IT workforce here in Pakistan.
The process of launching a 6-month e-commerce programmed which is also very
intensive and is particularly meant for the people with the background in
bossiness BBA, MBA, B-Com, M-Com chartered and cost accountants. It will help
these professionals convert into e-commerce specialists.