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Consultation Process

Validation Workshop

  1. March 29, 2023 (ISLAMABAD)
    To conclude the consultative process carried out across all four provinces and finalized the input received, a Validation workshop was held at PTA. All stakeholders including Ministry of IT & Telecom, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Human Rights, USF, Ignite, FIA, Higher Education Commission, National Commission on Status of Women, BISP etc. Non-government organizations like UN Women, UNIDO, GSMA attended the workshop.
     

Consultative Workshops

PTA conducted multi-stakeholder workshops in each province of the country. To analyze the local issues faced by women in getting Digitally connected. Civil society organizations, Government organizations with digital agendas, Startup, entrepreneurs, operators, and UN agencies etc. participated in these workshops held towards the end of year 2022.

  1. November 30, 2022 (PESHAWAR)
    Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa IT Board, Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), telecom operators, academia, and digital gender rights groups.
     
  2. December 17, 2022 (LAHORE)
    Experts from various stakeholder groups including Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), telecom operators, academia, and digital gender rights groups.
     
  3. December 19, 2022 (QUETTA)
    Representatives from Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), NIC Quetta, telecom operators, academia, women entrepreneurs, tech start-ups and non-governmental organizations such as Mercy Corp, People’s Primary Health Care initiative (PPHI), and Health Education and Environment Program Balochistan (HEEP) etc.
     
  4. December 22, 2022 (KARACHI)
    Experts from various stakeholder groups attended the workshop. Representatives from Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), National Incubation Centre Karachi, Careem, telecom operators, academia, banking sector, social enterprises, women entrepreneurs, and non-governmental organizations such Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Aurat Foundation etc.