LAHORE: Leading Pakistani tech entrepreneur, investor and mentor to various information technology startups, Noman Said has apprised that ITCN Asia 2023 held in Karachi a couple of weeks ago has generated upwards of $110 million in exports and services contracts for Pakistan. ITCN Asia 2023 in Karachi is a huge achievement for Pakistan in purely financial & economic terms as well and more such exhibitions of international significance and relevance in IT & ITeS are on the cards. Noman Said informed that the trade economists who attended the ITCN Asia 2023 and the then provincial caretaker finance minister, Younus Dagha, agreed that Pakistan’s potential for IT & IT-enabled services exports in the near-term of less than 1 year is $5 billion; in the short-term of 1 – 3 years is $10 billion and in the medium-term of 3 – 5 years is $15 billion. DNA
