{"id":63897,"date":"2020-04-11T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63897"},"modified":"2020-04-10T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:28:45","slug":"science-technology-ministry-offers-support-internet-broadband-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/science-technology-ministry-offers-support-internet-broadband-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Science &#038; Technology Ministry to extend support to enhance internet, broadband services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Ministry of Science and Technology has offered its support to facilitate the provision of internet and broadband services across the country, according to a news report. The Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Hussain Chaudhary communicated this offer to the Ministry of Information Technology during an online conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/science-ministry-awaits-draps-approval-ventilator-designs-coronavirus-testing-kits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Science ministry awaits DRAP\u2019s approval on ventilator designs, coronavirus testing kits (opens in a new tab)\">Science ministry awaits DRAP\u2019s approval on ventilator designs, coronavirus testing kits<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talk was organised by the Sustainable Development Policy\nInstitute (SDPI) and its title was \u2018Role of Ministry of Science and Technology\namid Covid-19 \u2018. During the session, Chaudhary emphasised that the current\nsituation called for efficient e-governance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that his ministry could help assist the Covid-19 efforts by helping produce ventilators, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/coronavirus-mobile-units-to-perform-door-to-door-scanning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"testing (opens in a new tab)\">testing<\/a> kits, hand sanitisers, and personal protective equipment (PPE) in its own capacity. He also called for the private and public sectors to work together in these efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/digital-mapping-karachis-coronavirus-patients-begins-2-hospitals-initiate-telemedicine-services.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Digital mapping of Karachi\u2019s coronavirus patients begins; 2 hospitals initiate telemedicine services (opens in a new tab)\"> Digital mapping of Karachi\u2019s coronavirus patients begins; 2 hospitals initiate telemedicine services<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaudhary also invited think tanks like SDPI to come forward\nand expand the scope of research and development for policy purposes in\nPakistan, and to help tackle the current situation. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Ministry of Science and Technology has offered its support to facilitate the provision of internet and broadband services across the country, according to a news report. The Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Hussain Chaudhary communicated this offer to the Ministry of Information Technology during an online conference. Read: Science ministry awaits DRAP\u2019s approval on ventilator designs, coronavirus testing kits The talk was organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and its title was \u2018Role of Ministry of Science and Technology amid Covid-19 \u2018. During the session, Chaudhary emphasised that the current situation called for efficient e-governance. He stated that his ministry could help assist the Covid-19 efforts by helping produce ventilators, testing kits, hand sanitisers, and personal protective equipment (PPE) in its own capacity. He also called for the private and public sectors to work together in these efforts. Read: Digital mapping of Karachi\u2019s coronavirus patients begins; 2 hospitals initiate telemedicine services Chaudhary also invited think tanks like SDPI to come forward and expand the scope of research and development for policy purposes in Pakistan, and to help tackle the current situation. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":63188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25840,13084,25080,23239,25839],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-broadband-services","8":"tag-e-governance","9":"tag-federal-minister-for-science-technology-fawad-chaudhry","10":"tag-internet-services","11":"tag-ministry-of-science-and-technology"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ministry to help enhance internet, boradband services - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ministry of Science and Technology has offered its help to the Ministry of Information Technology to make internet, broadband services more efficient.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/science-technology-ministry-offers-support-internet-broadband-services.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ministry to help enhance internet, boradband services - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ministry of Science and Technology has offered its help to the Ministry of Information Technology to make internet, broadband services more efficient.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/science-technology-ministry-offers-support-internet-broadband-services.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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