Commerce ministry to digitise trade data

Federal Minister for Commerce Jam Kamal Khan has called for developing a secure, integrated and AI-enabled digital ecosystem for the Ministry of Commerce and its attached organisations, following separate meetings with the Pakistan Digital Authority (PDA) and Sky47, a statement said on Saturday. The meetings focused on treating government data as a national asset, strengthening Pakistan's sovereign cloud infrastructure, enabling secure data exchange, and utilising artificial intelligence for evidence-based trade and export policymaking. Khan said the ministry maintains extensive information relating to thousands of tariff and product lines, exporters, international markets, trade bodies and overseas trade missions. He stressed that this dispersed information must be standardised, integrated and made readily available to authorised users. "Pakistan's trade data is a valuable national asse...