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The Department Of Youth Affairs And Sports, Punjab Information Technology Board And Payoneer Joined Hands To Empower Freelance Ecosystem.

The Department Of Youth Affairs And Sports, Punjab Information Technology Board And Payoneer Have Joined Hands To Empower Freelance Ecosystem. The three parties signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the launching ceremony of e-Rozgaar newsletter here on Friday. Payoneer is an international payment gateway which has been supporting freelancers and service exporters in Pakistan for more than a decade, empowering self-employed professionals to become successful entrepreneurs and exporters.

According to the MoU, all the parties decided to support and empower the freelancing ecosystem. It is a great step for governance and industry supporting youth for adopting digital skills as their career. Minister for Youth and Sports Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti, Secretary Youth Affairs Fuad Hashim Rabbani, Chairman PITB Azfar Manzoor, DG Sports Adnan Arshad Aulakh were also present.

Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti stated that it’s the vision of government to empower the youth and this will be an important step to introduce the youth to the technologies. It will help them to ease off the hurdles of international transactions and will add more opportunities for doing online business for young freelancers. He added that ‘Pakistan is among the top ten countries in freelancing and we will keep promoting the advanced domains.

E-Commerce is the growing industry in our country and the youth is adopting this actively. Recently Amazon, an international e-commerce platform, has officially added Pakistan to the list of approved sellers. This has paved a path to the new avenues to sell in the international marketplace. The dream of making digital Pakistan is coming true!’

This news was originally published at Nation.