Sindh Information Technology Company Chief Executive Officer Zainulabedin Shah and Chief Information Security Officer Qazi Misbah participated in a remote consultation on the Pakistan Digital and AI Compact 2026-2030, joining a multi-stakeholder gathering convened to shape a strategic national framework for accelerating Pakistan’s digital transformation over the next five years.
The Pakistan Digital and AI Compact 2026-2030 is being developed as a high-level national roadmap focused on four interconnected priority areas: improved connectivity across underserved regions, stronger digital infrastructure at the federal and provincial levels, enhanced digital skills development for Pakistan’s workforce, and Artificial Intelligence-driven economic growth. The compact is intended to provide the strategic coherence that Pakistan’s digital transformation agenda has at times lacked, establishing shared targets, accountability frameworks, and coordinated investment priorities across institutions rather than allowing parallel efforts to proceed in silos without alignment to common national outcomes.
The consultation brought together a broad cross-section of Pakistan’s digital governance ecosystem, with senior representatives attending from the World Bank, the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, the Pakistan Digital Authority, the Pakistan Software Export Board, Ignite, the National Information Technology Board, provincial information technology boards, and public-sector technology companies. The inclusion of both federal bodies and provincial information technology boards reflects an intent to ensure that the compact’s targets are grounded in the realities of implementation at the provincial level, where much of the actual service delivery and digital infrastructure deployment ultimately takes place, and that provincial stakeholders have ownership of the framework from its design stage rather than receiving it as a top-down directive.
The World Bank’s involvement as a convener of the consultation signals that the compact is likely to be tied to international financing and technical assistance commitments, consistent with the bank’s existing engagement with Pakistan’s digital sector through the Digital Economy Enhancement Project and related programmes. For SITC, participation in the consultation at the CEO and CISO level reflects the Sindh government’s intent to ensure that provincial technology leadership has a seat at the table as Pakistan’s five-year digital and Artificial Intelligence strategy takes shape.
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