Let me add a a few reality checks about budget.
1. PSDP budget is made annually and approved by Parliament. Hence you can only go as far as one year in planning expenditure. This is the theoretical maximum, limited by other constraints. Not sure how many times people may have tried to change this but during Dr. Atta's tenure we certainly tried to get a 3-year budget (at least for some projects) so as to give continuity to the program - but in vain. The final conclusion was that Financial Planning has to be done on a yearly basis.
2. Even when budget is allocated at the start of the financial year, you do not necessarily get the money released. By mid-year review, which happens around December, some of your allocation can be diverted to other sectors.
While I fully agree that an Action Plan gives muscle to a Policy, and further that a budget commitment gives life to an Action Plan, the reality is that in the current Financial Model this is not going to happen.
3. A third limiting factor is the machinery to execute.
Recognizing the ground realities we need to define a Policy in good faith, with all the major stakeholders on board. Planning Commission and Finance Divisions must be in synch from the funding standpoint. IT industry should be in resonance because it is the key customers. Provinces have to be included because citizen services and several aspects of the policy have to be implemented at the Provincial level. Of course universities and bureaucracy and several others have to play a supporting role but the three mentioned above are the core.
- Tariq
From: mansoor malik <manmalik@hotmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:10 PM
Subject: RE: [pakgrid] Review of the Draft National IT Policy (Revised) 2011
Yes, it is a beautiful document, well drafted but where is the ACTION PLAN. We need to spell out the specific public/private organizations responsible to implement its various features alongwith their budget estimates if we are serious about it, otherwise, I am afraid it would just be a paper exercise like our current Education Policy.
We need to get out of the existing mindsets of Policy Making on the UK/USA pattern based upon Paper Exercise and try to adopt the Japanese Model where the respective ACTION PLANS along with the BUDGET ESTIMATES and IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES with TIMING DIAGRAMMES and KPIs' are made part of the Policy Document.
Without all these supporting documents, I am afraid that we are only destroying a lot of trees in filling up the papers which would wind up in a dilapidated cupboard in a remote corner after five years or so, to be passed on as RADDI. I would like to be as straight as I can and apologize for offending someone down the line.
We need to get out of the existing mindsets of Policy Making on the UK/USA pattern based upon Paper Exercise and try to adopt the Japanese Model where the respective ACTION PLANS along with the BUDGET ESTIMATES and IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES with TIMING DIAGRAMMES and KPIs' are made part of the Policy Document.
Without all these supporting documents, I am afraid that we are only destroying a lot of trees in filling up the papers which would wind up in a dilapidated cupboard in a remote corner after five years or so, to be passed on as RADDI. I would like to be as straight as I can and apologize for offending someone down the line.
EMSQUARE
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> From: fouadbajwa@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:06:35 +0500
> Subject: [pakgrid] Review of the Draft National IT Policy (Revised) 2011
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> This may be of both interest and concern for all stakeholders. The
> Govt is inviting comments till the 18th of November 2011. Kindly send
> in your input:
>
> http://www.pcl.org.pk/policy/
>
> Official Notification Letter:
> http://www.pcl.org.pk/policy/doc/1-12-2008-IT.pdf
>
> Document of Draft National IT Policy (Revised) 2011
> http://www.pcl.org.pk/policy/doc/Draft%20IT%20Policy%202011%20(Revised).doc
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> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:06:35 +0500
> Subject: [pakgrid] Review of the Draft National IT Policy (Revised) 2011
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> This may be of both interest and concern for all stakeholders. The
> Govt is inviting comments till the 18th of November 2011. Kindly send
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> http://www.pcl.org.pk/policy/
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> Official Notification Letter:
> http://www.pcl.org.pk/policy/doc/1-12-2008-IT.pdf
>
> Document of Draft National IT Policy (Revised) 2011
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