From the “Year from Hell” to “Year of Hope”? (Part II) on January 2, 2021There needs to be increased venture capital funding to accelerate growth of technology-based startups that can absorb this talent to become part of the formal economy, and scale to enterprise level in short time scales. The government is finally taking this sector seriously and implementing its Digital Pakistan Policy to accelerate and transform the IT […]
From the “Year from Hell” to “Year of Hope”? (Part I) on January 1, 2021It would be tempting to describe 2020 with the Latin term annus horribilis, a year of disaster. While it was undoubtedly a dreadful year for most across the world, yet for Pakistanis there were some sparks of good cheer despite the pall of pervasive global gloom. The government’s deft handling of the pandemic minimized the […]