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Executive Summary
The Outreach
Scholarship Program was launched by National ICT R&D Fund in year 2007.
The main objectives of this program are:
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To enhance the
quality of human resource for the IT & Telecom industry;
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To create higher
education opportunities for the talented youth of the non-metropolitan
areas of the country.
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To approach
talented students from rural areas, and provide them career
opportunities in the IT and telecom disciplines.
The main focus of the
Phase–I of this project is to identify and train 4500 talented college
students from non-metropolitan areas of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan
provinces and then train them in the boot camps before their admission to
four-year undergraduate programs.
In this project, 2nd
year pre-engineering intermediate students who secured 60% and above marks
in their board examinations were trained in local colleges of
non-metropolitan areas. This training was imparted for three weeks. Prior
to this three weeks training program, specialized training manuals for
teachers and students were developed and teachers from these schools were
trained to conduct the three week training program.
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