Institute of Communications and Information Technology Linked to the World

Posted on: Oct 27, 2010
On October 24, 2010 a grand ceremony was held at the Institute of Communications and Information Technology on the occasion of connecting the campus to the world.  The meeting was attended by H.E. Eng. Amirzai Sangin Minister of MCIT, Dr. Ghulam Farooq Wardak Minister of Education, Ghulam Nabi Farahi deputy Minister of Information and Culture, Eng. Muhammad Khan director of Communications and Transport Commission of the lower house of parliament, Members of the ATRA Board, leading personalities of the MCIT, teachers and students of the ICTI and scores of local and international guests.
At the beginning of the ceremony, after the recitation of some verses from holy Quran, and National Anthem of the country, Mr. Abdul Rahman Sadri director of ICTI in a welcoming speech thanked HE. Amirzai Sangin for his consistent support to the ICTI.

Afterward, H.E. Eng. Amirzai Sangin Minister of Communications and IT, in a detailed statement informed the audience of the importance of IT in the modern world of today, and the achievements made in this filed. He added that progress of a nation mainly depends on two major factors, namely its natural resources and the intellectual status of its people.
His Excellency stressed that experience shows that intellectual status of a nation plays a more important role for the advancement and progress of each country than the role played by its natural resources. He gave example of Singapore, a small country with virtually no natural resources and said “Singapore has a population of around five million and no major natural resources but yet statistics show that this country’s per capita income in the year 2009 was close to US$34,000 while Afghanistan with natural resources estimated to be worth around three trillion dollars, had a per capita of around US$400 which is 100 times less than that of Singapore.
H.E. Sangin gave detailed information about the progress made in Afghanistan in the field of Communications and IT in the short span of eight years and talked about various aspects of this speedy progress in the country, and the impacts it has made on the living standard, job opportunity and the facilities extended to them. He also expressed pride to be in a position to inaugurate the project for connecting the first ICT institute of the country through Broadband internet to the world and called it a major step towards achieving future targets and milestones.
Afterwards Dr. Ghulam Farooq Wardak Minister of Education, thanking the leadership of the MCIT for the valuable steps taken towards expansion of Communication and IT services in the country, said ICT has changed the world into a village, and nowadays physical distances cannot and do not pose a major problem as it used pose in the past. He added that now using Internet, with the click of a single button one can get access to the world libraries, submit applications to universities, apply for jobs, make reservations, and carry out thousands and thousands of other operations which could not be even imagined a few decades ago.
Dr. Wardak, while stressing on the important role of the young generation for the advancement of the country, highly appreciated the MCIT’s initiative towards connecting the ICTI campus online and called it a very vital project. He urged the students of the Institute to make efficient and sensible use of the facility provided to them.
At the end of this ceremony, out of the 250 laptops which have been supplied to the students and the lecturers of the institute through the Telecommunications Development Fund, a number were presented to some students and teaches by H.E. the Minister and some of the personalities present at the gathering.