Google has unveiled an ambitious plan to produce 500,000 Chromebooks in Pakistan by 2026. At the launch event in Islamabad, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif received the first Chromebook from Scott Beaumont, President of Google Asia Pacific. Google’s Regional Director Farhan Qureshi highlighted the initiative’s potential to boost Pakistan’s tech sector and support freelancers. PM Shehbaz praised the project, stressing the country’s IT potential and the goal of $25 billion in IT exports in the next five years. He urged a focus on IT education and government digitization. This effort underscores Google’s commitment to advancing Pakistan’s digital landscape. #Google #Chromebooks #PakistanTech #DigitalTransformation #PMShehbazSharif
Arshad Khan
2mo
Manufacturing or assembling, even for assembling a high tech assembly plant need to be established some where, then a workforce training. Which minimum take years.
Muhammad Ashfaq
2mo
Just A PDM statement to the news channel, actually nothing going to happen
Google has announced a major initiative to produce 500,000 Chromebooks in Pakistan by 2026, marking a significant step in advancing the country's tech sector. At the launch event in Islamabad, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif received the first locally produced Chromebook from Scott Beaumont, Google’s President for Asia Pacific. The project, unveiled by Google’s Regional Director Farhan Qureshi, is expected to provide a major boost to Pakistan’s freelancers and the broader IT industry. Prime Minister Sharif emphasized the importance of this collaboration, noting Pakistan’s potential to become a key player in the global tech market. He reiterated the government's commitment to IT education and digitization, setting a goal of reaching $25 billion in IT exports over the next five years. This project demonstrates Google’s dedication to empowering Pakistan’s digital economy and its workforce, fostering innovation and new opportunities.
Saad Akhtar
2mo
These are all khayali pulao. These mandate theives are just paying through this fake news to keep everyone falsely positive. See through these lies and call them out for their theft.
PM vision reaches to the limit of boycotting truth speaking journalist, if he can't eliminate them, arresting opponents supporters even if they are minors, spending lavishly on the decorations of his office/PM houses and offices and houses of his support based bearcats, maligning dutiful judges and journalists so on and so forth.
Kashif Aftab
2mo
Well we should ask google to train Pakistani's in advance IT topic and give international internship 0.5 million Chromebook, one needs to be pragmatic. We need to make our country business friendly and train people in different domain/skills and we need decision makers which have common sense.
Umer F.
2mo
Hope it is used to drive growth in the IT sector, and not to distribute to voters
Todd Atkins
2mo
Instead of using .5 million, please consider wording it as " Half a million", just a suggestion.
Well by 2026 Pakistani internet will be downgraded to do what Chromebooks are designed to handle. Smart move Google
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2moChromebooks? Who is using chromebook anyway? Chromebooks have been miserably failed in the market. It’s just a laptop with google chrome installed in it. Nothing else.