USAID signs 4 MoUs to promote digital investments in Pakistan.

ISLAMABAD -- The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Wednesday signed four partnership memoranda of understandings (MoUs) with US-Pakistani diaspora entities to promote technology and digital investments in Pakistan.

The USAID signed MoUs with the Organisation of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America, silicon valley to promote technology and digital investments in Pakistan and support Pakistani start-ups; SARCMedIQ to improve the health digital ecosystem in Pakistan.

It also signed the MoUs with The Crescent Charity Foundation to support physical infrastructure in flood-affected areas of Pakistan; and PakFoods to improve humanitarian and social development outcomes for Pakistan.

The MoUs were signed at a US-Pakistani diaspora conference here where the United States Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Andrew Schofer highlighted the valuable contributions of the US-Pakistani diaspora, which is a key partner in the humanitarian, social, and commercial sectors in Pakistan.

Andrew Schofer highlighted the longstanding US-Pakistan partnership to advance Pakistan's economic growth and emphasised continued opportunities for future partnership. 'As the Green Revolution improved lives in the past, a 'Green Alliance' between the United States and Pakistan will help us jointly strengthen climate resilience, develop clean energy alternatives, and foster economic growth,' he said at the conference, which was sponsored by the US Mission...

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