PCA announces special training for IT professionals of the country

Islamabad: The IT industry of Pakistan needs to enhance its adaptability to grasp the emerging global trends as well as to ensure smooth technology and investment in the country. Pakistan Computer Association (PCA), in this connection, has taken special initiative of providing training opportunity in Open Source trend to stake-holders of the industry.

The trend of Open Source is rapidly growing and getting popular in Europe and rest of the world. To ensure the process, some countries have even managed special legislation from their parliaments for the use of Open Source in their countries. The first phase of the country-wide training would be held on Monday, 17 August 2009 in the Federal Capital Islamabad and the same training would be enhanced to the other parts of the country subsequently.

According to PCA, the training will help the IT professionals to learn how to operate state of the art software technology and launch the same in Pakistan effectively. Hence, an affordable new IT new technology could be available to all users in Pakistan besides protecting and ensuring the intellectual property rights (IPRs).

The IT industry of the country, while appreciating the initiative of the PCA has demanded that government should persuade the software companies for country specific prices for our region, so that the public at large can get software on affordable prices keeping in view the fact that Pakistan is a poor and one of a third world country and high prices of the software are beyond the purchasing power of the end users.

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The PCA has announced that this high profile training will be conducted by certified and qualified professionals in collaboration with Pakistan Software Export Board and Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad and more importantly it would be provided free of cost. Moreover, certificates shall be awarded among all the participants.

Munawar Iqbal, President of the PCA Central has said that the training facility will be available to IT professionals and vendors only to ensure the productivity of the training. He added further that, professionally trained manpower and ensuring the protection of IPRs will open new venues of international investment in this sector.

source:www.pakcomputerassociation.com/members/news.php