[In developing coutries like Pakistan, it is interesting to note that MoST <http://www.most.gov.pk> is responsive to the e-capacity building of Police officials. While district governments which is a new administrative set up uninitiated by National Reconstruction Bureau <http://www.nrb.org.pk> is in place, these efforts also have potential to improve meaningful coordination for governance amongst different tiers of governmental apparatus. -- ZFA]
10,000 police officials to be imparted IT training The Nation, 19/11/2001 http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/today/national/isb4.htm ISLAMABAD (APP) - Ministry of Science & Technology will train 10,000 police officials in the art of data capturing and sorting by using state of the art technology. The project will be executed by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in a period of ten months. An amount of Rs 33 million has been allocated for the project. At present there is a shortage of skills and of trained human resources in different technical categories and of different levels of IT in various departments of police. This shortage is more acute at the lower level. There is a need to train officers and officials of police department in such a way that they can gainfully use IT in their normal office matters so that their efficiency is increased and their productivity is enhanced. Sooner or later the concept of e- government will come into force, for that the staff has to be prepare to take the new approach. It has been observed that while all the IT driven activities are time- specific and demand driven, the police officials are not geared to meet these challenges. Very few know the art of word processing and concept of e-mail etc. The situation demands for urgent orientation of these police officials. The initiative to launch a programme of training of 10,000 police officials has been taken by IT Division under the consideration that the training of the police officials in a systematic way may increase the speed of implementation of different government projects and routine operations. In order to achieve the objective of Good Governance, self-reliability and efficiency within the available resources, such training is required immediately. The core of trained people produced after the completion of the project will provide the government with a pool of trained police officials, which so far they have not been able to raise, help raise overall efficiency of the department, help adopting the IT culture in the department, will improve overall comprehension and skill of the police officials, catalyze the whole process of e-government and will help in upgradation of facilities at the training institutes where the training will be imparted. The training will be conducted in different phases in major cities namely Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi and Quetta in collaboration with the existing institutes in the public and private sector that have adequate facilities and have already consented to participate in the programme. ------------- Regards, Zubair Faisal Abbasi. Islamabad, Pakistan. Tel (Res):++92-51-2263481 Cell: ++92-303-6512182 http://www.espots.org ================================================= Plant the tree of friendship; it will give delightful fruits. Uproot the weed of enmity; it will bring inumerable troubles....Hafiz ================================================= ------------ ***GKD is an initiative of the Global Knowledge Partnership*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.globalknowledge.org>
