ISLAMABAD: The Intellectual Property Organization (IPO) and Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) on Tuesday joined hands and signed an agreement for the digitalization and automation of IPO- Pakistan.

The Memorandum of Understanding signed by Director General, IPO Ms. Shazia Adnan and Director General, PITB Saima R Shaikh for automation and digitalization IPO to facilitate the common masses and business in the country.

On this occasion, Chairman IPO, Ambassador Farukh Amil said that the visibility on indifferent platforms and public awareness are the major priority of IPO at this time, which will make it accessible to the business classes and especially the youth.

Chairman IPO said that at pre-sent “we are working on digitalization of IPO with the support of PITB, which is an important tool for modernizing institutions in the modern world, which provides facilities to the public and business classes.

He said that a large part of the population of Pakistan consists of youth and the youth are currently mostly connected to IT and social media, after this facility they will be able to make online complaints or other facilities in IPO.

Mr. Farukh said that IPO is currently making the youth aware of IPO in universities and educational institutions, which will increase the trend of financial education among them. He said that after automation in the IPO, there will be transparency and simplification of processes in the institution.

On this occasion, Director General, IPO, Ms. Shazia Adnan said, that after this agreement with PITB, online payments and another documentation process will be made easy in the next two months and this will also promote Ease of Doing Business (EODB) in IPO.

She said that with this agreement, you can do documentation or payment processes through 27 different channels including online banking, and APPs, which will pro-vide convenience to people.