Dr. ImranBatada Director CICT
Taking responsibility of becoming Director of ICT Department at IBA Karachi was a tough choice. Providing ICT services to the institution as huge as IBA is never an easy task. I wanted to bring automation to IBA which had been performing its critical functions manually. My team burned midnight oil and implemented state-of-the-art campus management system making IBA carry out its most of the functions with minimum human interference.
The disruption that technology has been bringing is tremendous as well as horrible as we Pakistanis have been lagging a lot behind from rest of the world. There is acute shortage of the institutions which impart quality education in the 'not so touched' areas of IT such as data analytics and ERP. I dreamt of founding a center at IBA Karachi which can fill this gap, hence, Center for Information & Communication Technology (CICT) came into being.
CICT offers diploma programs, short courses, workshops, and customized training programs in a wide range of IT trade. The diploma programs of CICT are practical-oriented while their course-work is carefully designed by academicians and industry-professionals considering the present and future demands of the industry. We have also been running government-funded youth skills development programs which aim at imparting free-of-cost quality education to those who don't have enough resources to afford. CICT has also been engaged with public sector to make the government employees better at serving people.
If you ask me who stops dreaming, then I would say, the dead ones. There is no full-stop to the dreams as long as you're alive. My bucket is full of dreams and I, with the help of my efficient and hard-working team, will give my full to make them true.