Prospects of Information Technology in Pakistan
The development of Information Technology has taken place during last two decades of the twentieth century. These two decades can be regarded as the decades in which computer culture got its place. During these decades giant companies like Microsoft Corporation evolved and lot of industry’s pioneer companies failed due to their inability to get in pace with changing technology. The increased power of software industry could be judged from the volume of international market of Information Technology which is estimated at 600 billion dollars. This volume is increasing at the rat of 18 percent per annum. The bigger market of Information Technology (IT) is USA where major compute manufacturing and software development companies are based. Our next door neighbour India is playing a vital role in the multinational industry. It has developed software industry responding at the right time and positive manner. In Pakistan efforts are being made for the development of this indust