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The world's first "smart village" is up and running in Pakistan, thanks to a tech company that's been working with the government for a year and a half.
The UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced Tuesday that Pakistan's Smart Villages and Smart Islands project is the first "smart village" initiative in the Asia-Pacific, with the goal of improving the quality of life and economy of remote villages by increasing last-mile access to digital services, including e-health, e-education, and e-commerce, per a press release.
The Smart Villages and Smart Islands project is a partnership between the government of Pakistan, telecommunications company Huawei, and the Project for C Minds, a non-government organization that works with developing countries to use technology to improve the lives of their people.
The idea is to use technology to increase the number of people who have access to digital services, including health care, education, and business services, per the press release.
"The greatest development is the development of human beings," says Jeffrey Zhou, president of ICT marketing for Huawei, which has been working with the government on the initiative.
The project has so far reached 220,000 people, including women and girls, unemployed youth,
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