“Herself”, is a women empowering program launched by PITB. The aim is to encourage women towards the technical field and to create an opportunity for them to work effectively even when at home.

Recently Herself, has hosted a Graduation Ceremony. It’s not been more than six months since the launch of Herself and it already had trained more than 100 women. The ceremony was for the second cohort that had a total of 60 women.

The ceremony began with the notes of the Co-Manager of Herself and Marketing and PR Executive of Herself, Zainab Tariq and Ayesha Mubashir respectively. The two ladies welcomed the audience and talked about Herself. During their stay on stage they revealed some future plans and aims of Herself and also said that they expect more women to join them.

The Chairman of PITB, Dr. Umar Saif was present on the occasion and he took the stage to appreciate all efforts by women who made Herself a huge success. He congratulated Herself’s team and graduates. During his opening speech he highlighted the importance if entrepreneurial culture in Pakistan and the role women can play in the progress of technology in Pakistan. He encouraged women to take technical fields for economical progress.

He said,

“No economy can ever progress if its women don’t progress and with little job opportunities, venturing into entrepreneurship would benefit the society as a whole”.

The event was graced by successful women who are source if inspirational great mentors for the young learning talent. These included Angela Braid the Co-Founder Polly and Other Stories, Anoosha Shaigan who is Vice President Courting the Law and Ms. Sadaffe Abid the Co-Founder CIRCLE.

These ladies participated in a panel discussion during which many problems and their solutions were discussed. Moreover their point of view was taken on entrepreneurial opportunities, the role of women and available resources.

On the occasion Ms. Sadaffe Abid said,

“Herself is a significant platform for our women where they get to turn their dreams into realities”

A business idea competition was also held where three trainees presented a new business idea.  This was judged by the panelists who declared TeamUp, the idea of Sayyada Huda, the best. TeamUp is a platform where every sportsperson can make a team online and play whenever he/she wants.

Nabeel A. Qadeer, Director Entrepreneurship Punjab Information Technology Board joined for a closing note. After sharing the story and reasons behind this successful project, He congratulated all graduates and winner of the Business Idea Competition.

Nabeel said,

“Our nation cannot progress without the women participating for the greater good of Pakistan. Believing in them and providing them the right guidance will not only set them on the path to success but also bring benefit to Pakistan’s economy. Herself is set to achieve the same.”

After all the discussions, speeches and motivational recognition the ceremony came to an end.

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World racing towards modernization, ICT R&D Fund is welcoming proposals provide ICT training to Women. At the moment 48 percent of Pakistan’s population but the work force percentage is lesser than 25%, leave entrepreneurship.

Women being entrepreneurs is still a concept taking its roots in Pakistan. Ranking on scale, Pakistan ranks last in the Female Entrepreneurship Index (FEI) developed by the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GDI).

The Program targets over 500 women, at least 70 from each of the four provinces and aims at empowering them to become entrepreneurs as well as to spread awareness of the new tools of technology there too serve women. If all goes to plans the desired outcomes of the program are to reach women entrepreneurs the new ways of business as well as to inform them of the freelancing opportunities available in Pakistan.

The National ICT R&D Fund recently launched Pakistan’s first National Incubation Center in Islamabad and also plans to open in fours other cities.

Added to this the program also aims at teaching women entrepreneurs effective business ideas, product development and marketing. The Project welcomes Firms to submit a Technical Proposal with the Design as well as the Financial Proposal as per the Scope of Work given in the RFP document. The proposal will be the basis for contract finalization with the selected firm.

Section 2.7 states,

“The Company requires that the hired firm provides professional, objective, impartial advice and services and at all times hold the Company’s interests paramount, without any consideration for future work, and strictly avoid conflicts with other assignments or their own corporate interests.”

The firms selected would have to develop two week long customized programs which would teach women the different aromas of business, such as idea generation, developing etc.

The last date of submission is 6th March 2017, with the right of submission only reserved to tax payers.

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