Muslim world needs tech renaissance: Saqib Updated 13 minutes ago

SCREENGRABThe Muslim world's next technological renaissance should be built on producing knowledge, developing capabilities and solving human problems rather than simply adopting new technologies, Minister of State and Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib said on Tuesday.He expressed these views in a keynote conversation on "The Future of Blockchain and Islamic Finance" at the Harvard Islamic Finance Conference.Proposing "Golden Age 2.0", he stressed that the intellectual….

"A new golden age is not a return to the past.

It is a return to producing knowledge, building capability and solving human problems.""The rulebook is a beginning.

The public experience is the test," he said.

"The question is not simply whether a technology works, but whether people can use it with clear rights, understandable risks and somewhere to turn when things go wrong."For the Islamic finance audience, the discussion examined how regulatory oversight and Shariah expertise can inform product development while retaining their distinct responsibilities.Addressing students and young professionals, he discussed practical avenues for collaboration across Muslim societies, including joint research, multidisciplinary teams and supervised….

He framed shared endeavour around measurable contributions rather than technology adoption alone."A shared past gives us connection.

Shared work gives us direction," he said.

"Let unity be something a young researcher can experience, not only something a speaker can describe."

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