ITU-USF (Pakistan) Workshop on "Internet Access and Adoption"

​​​​​​10-11 October 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan

Objectives

Keeping this in mind, ITU and USF Pakistan decided to initiate a 2-day workshop around “Internet Access and Adoption" in Islamabad, Pakistan.
The main objectives of the workshop are to:

• bring together governments, USF practitioners, innovators and financiers to examine what is needed to encourage additional capital flow to the rural areas
• dentify barriers to internet access and adoption in rural Pakistan;
  
• dentify stakeholders, champions and good practice programmes fostering digital transformation;
• inculcate a greater capability to innovate using emerging concept of “Next Generation USF" or “USF 2.0";
  
• analyse case studies on different countries of Asia-Pacific region, so that international best practices could be considered;
  
• draw out lessons learned from existing efforts as well as explore new innovative solutions that could be used to form policy or develop models that could be disseminated outside the country, in the region. 

​Who should attend?

This multi-stakeholder workshop targeted all stakeholders involved in nurturing and building digital innovation environment, which is favorable to entrepreneurship and creation of startups, growth and expansion of small firms, public service transformation, and sector specific digital transformation. In particular, its agenda has been customized for the needs of the ICT policy makers, regulators, national innovation agencies, development agencies, entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, Financial stakeholders, academia as well as institutions willing to accelerate their digital transformation journey fostering ICT centric innovation and developing coherent approaches to move countries towards an innovation driven economy.