Visit of Chairman Pakistan Digital Authority (PDA) to SoP

Dr Sohail Munir (Chairman PDA), along with his senior member, visited SoP on 22 Oct 2025. He apprised about the mandate and core functions of PDA, emphasizing its pivotal role in steering Pakistan's digital transformation and data governance in coming years. Team SoP briefed Chairman PDA about the efforts being done by SoP for establishing and operationalizing Pak-NSDI. Discussion on Pak-NSDI covered key technologies/ methodologies such as NSDI data standardization, suggested IT architecture for NSDI, future use of Blockchain & Tokenization in the NSDI, use of geospatial data in future development of Islamabad Digital Twin Project etc.

Chairman PDA provided valuable guidance on IT aspects required to be taken into consideration while planning Pak-NSDI and its long-term sustainability. He agreed to collaborate in this initiative and make SoP’s NSDI effort a part of the anticipated Digital Master Plan of Pakistan to be formulated soon by PDA