ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday invited SAP (System, Applications and Product), a software solution company of international acclaim, to support ‘Digital Pakistan’ initiative in skills development and training of youth in collaboration with major universities.
In a meeting with Chief Executive Officer SAP Christian Klein on the sidelines of World Economic Forum at the Swiss resort Davos, the prime minister expressed the desire for establishing SAP laboratories in Pakistan for promotion of software engineering, a PM Office statement said.
SAP (System, Applications and Product) is one of the world’s largest enterprise software companies, known for their Enterprise Resource Planning Software with a significant footprint in the public and private sector of Pakistan.
Imran Khan said his government was utilising digital applications for governance including citizen’s complaint redressal, for procedural efficiency at public offices and for improving ease-of-doing-business.
Christian Klein apprised the prime minister that SAP had a long association with Pakistan since last 20 years with its most significant project the digital system for administering salaries and pensions of the government of Pakistan.
He appreciated Pakistan’s focus on digitization of governance and economic sectors and e expressed SAP’s commitment to training young software engineers in Germany and using them for software development in Pakistan.
The meeting was attended by Finance Adviser Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Commerce Adviser Abdul Razaq Dawood, PM’s Special Assistants Syed Zulfiqar Abbas Bokhari and Dr Moeed Yusuf, and Ambassador at Large on Foreign Investment Ali Jehangir Siddiqui.
