Pakistan Software Export Board’s Revamping IT Industry Landscape project has been honored with the Best Digital Skills Initiative of the Year award at the Allied Bank Limited-Tech Advisory Forum Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards 2026. The recognition marks a milestone for the project, which the board described as reflecting its impact in equipping Pakistan’s youth, particularly women, with high demand digital skills and international certification.
The award recognizes the project’s industry driven approach to strengthening the country’s broader digital ecosystem, with a specific emphasis on expanding access to certified digital skills training among young people entering the workforce. Pakistan Software Export Board highlighted the project’s focus on women’s participation as a core component of its design, positioning the initiative as part of a broader effort to close gender gaps in Pakistan’s technology sector.
The Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards, organized jointly by Allied Bank Limited and the Tech Advisory Forum, recognize government and public sector initiatives that have demonstrated measurable progress in advancing digital transformation across Pakistan. Winning the Best Digital Skills Initiative category places the Revamping IT Industry Landscape project among the recognized public sector efforts contributing to the country’s digital economy goals for 2026.
The recognition adds to a series of accolades and milestones Pakistan Software Export Board has achieved in recent months as it continues expanding its skills development and capacity building programs across the country’s IT sector. With international certification and industry alignment central to the project’s design, the award reinforces the board’s ongoing efforts to build a globally competitive, digitally skilled workforce capable of supporting Pakistan’s IT export ambitions.
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