DAVOS, Jan 17 (APP):Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Wednesday called for providing equitable opportunities to all nations and regions to grab the fruits of modern technology.
Speaking at a forum titled “Trade Tech’s Trillion-Dollar Promise” on the sideline of the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the prime minister said utilizing the state of the art technology was vital to achieve the targets of fast development.
Stressing the need to ensure equitable opportunities to all to secure the technology, the prime minister said equitable opportunities was key to ensure sustainable global development.
Keeping in view the development of technology, PM Kakar maintained that the digital economy would attain more importance in the days to come.
He said every region of the world should be benefited from the development being made in the technology sector.
As regards the issues of trade and business, he said the private sector should be encouraged to boost investment. Further he added that the private sector should take a lead to help the government resolving the challenges of trade and business.
“The government do think in a different way and manner when it approaches towards challenges of trade and business, while the private entities and the business people have different opinion,” he said adding the private entities should become the opinion maker and influencing and contributing more towards it.
