PTA Leadership Performance Analysis By LIRNE Asia
LIRNE Asia has produced an analytical report on the performance of PTA under Shahzada Alam’s tenure (2002-2008). The complete document is available here. I’d recommend it to see all the factors which were taken into consideration in the analysis. Excerpts below from Prof. Samarajiva’s post, first from the introduction:
Pakistan’s recent telecom developments constitute a South Asian success story. From two million in 2002, the number of active mobile SIMs increased to 79 million by end 2007. This is a compound annual growth rate of 115 per cent a year, one of the highest in the world, and the highest in South Asia for that period. This article documents the achievements of the Pakistan telecom sector in 2002-07. The period covers the tenure of Major General Shahzada Alam Malik (retd.), who stepped down as the Chairman of the Pakistan Telecom Authority in July 2008.
Leadership matters. It is not the only thing, but without it, reforms do not happen and performance suffers.
If a country’s telecom sector does well, the main contributions come from the business-process innovations of suppliers and the creativity of consumers. However, they can contribute only if the government and the regulatory agency remove the road blocks, described in our 2008 book, ICT infrastructure in emerging Asia: Policy and regulatory roadblocks. Absent good leadership, regulatory agencies become roadblocks, not facilitators.
And the conclusion:
Major General Malik can depart with a happy heart. The reforms that he championed and helped get implemented have borne good results for the people of Pakistan.
As an organization committed to the creation of a policy and regulatory environment conducive to greater ICT use by the people of the Asia Pacific, we thank Chairman Malik and his team for bringing Pakistan to the forefront of sector developments. We salute his leadership. The reforms of 2004 unleashed competitive energies that can connect more people to each other and to the potential of Information and Communication Technologies, absent any new roadblocks.
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A version of this was published in Sri Lanka’s leading English language newspaper: http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=22275
Thats great to hear. I call this the golden era and think that it will be hard to replicate this kind of growth. Thanks for the detailed analysis.
Maj (R) Shahzada lead this goldene era of ICT in Pakistan and the at this very successful phaseout of his carier from PTA he is the Hero of the nation.