Gilgit-Baltistan famously known as GB is located in the extreme North of Pakistan with its boarders meeting with China, India and Afghanistan which makes it strategically important. The ancient Silk Route now known as KKH (Karakorum Highway) crosses across GB.
Despite of its Geo-strategic importance and abundance with natural resources in form of undiscovered minerals there are lack of employment opportunities for the educated youth of this area. Despite of all these hurdles and lack of resources, education among youth is much better than other areas of Pakistan.
In this scenario, using ICTs more effectively could be a way out to cope the employment issues.
Online Earning is an emerging phenomena in developing countries. There are many websites available online where employers around the world submit their tasks and workers from around the world apply for these tasks and are hired for the accomplishment of tasks online; so these types of online earners called free lancers earn enough to meet their expenses. Following are some examples of such freelancing websites:
Despite of its Geo-strategic importance and abundance with natural resources in form of undiscovered minerals there are lack of employment opportunities for the educated youth of this area. Despite of all these hurdles and lack of resources, education among youth is much better than other areas of Pakistan.
In this scenario, using ICTs more effectively could be a way out to cope the employment issues.
Online Earning is an emerging phenomena in developing countries. There are many websites available online where employers around the world submit their tasks and workers from around the world apply for these tasks and are hired for the accomplishment of tasks online; so these types of online earners called free lancers earn enough to meet their expenses. Following are some examples of such freelancing websites:
- www.odesk.com
- www.elance.com
- www.peopleperhour.com
- www.guru.com