PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board (KPBOIT), in collaboration with World Bank and other partner organisation, will organise a two-day IT conference titled “Digital Youth Summit 2015” in May this year to showcase the youths’ innovative talent.
This was disclosed by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister for ST&IT Shahram Khan Tarakai in a function held to this effect at Peshawar Press Club. He said that the provincial government was working on a number of initiatives to effectively utilize the information technology for finding out solutions to the day to day issues of citizens, improving the capacity of government department and ensuring utmost transparency in government affairs adding that the holding of Digital Youth Summit 2015 is an important step formed in this regard.
The participants of the functions were given detailed briefings about the said software applications and their utilities. It was told that through the upcoming Digital Youth Summit 2015, at least twenty youths would be selected to work together with KPITB to develop such useful software applications.
Shahram Tarakai congratulated the KPITB and its partner organizations for successfully holding the Digital Youth Summit 2014 and achieving its set targets and expressed the hope that the upcoming summit would prove more successful then the last one.
The function was also addressed by Secretary ST&IT, Farrah Hamid and other speakers. At the end graduates of the Civic Innovation Fellowship Programme 2014 were also awarded certificates.
