LAHORE: Over 500 degrees were awarded to students at the 23rd convocation of Government Graduate College for Women, Samanabad, on Wednesday.

The ceremony was held at the campus in Samanabad. DPI Colleges Dr Ashiq Hussain and Principal Prof Dr Halima Afridi distributed degrees and certificates including 111 roll of honour, eight medals, 239 science and 282 arts students of the session 2016-2020.

Principal Dr Halima Afridi congratulated the students and said the college had a prominent place in Punjab not only for its excellent academic results but also for its extra-curricular activities.

She said the college had 25 PhD and 53 M.Phil professors.

MoU: The Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and Code for Pakistan on Wednesday signed an MoU to improve civic engagement and Master Data Management Framework (MDMF).

PITB Chairman Azfar Manzoor and Code for Pakistan Country Head Samina Rizwan signed the memorandum on Wednesday at the PITB office at Arfa Software Park.

Both organisations would share efforts to advance open, inclusive, and innovative public services with an immediate focus to jointly work on related projects.

The MoU will leverage each organisation’s comparative advantage to support high-quality and sustainable outcomes in the country through digital innovation, with the goal to improve e-governance and better access of citizens to basic social services such as health and education.

Code for Pakistan would provide support to PITB on improving the MDMF and some other activities include leveraging a volunteer network to identify and provide services of subject matter experts on policy, strategy and product development.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2021