E-Commerce Working Group headed by Dr. Irfan Hyder was established by Dr Ata Ur Rahman, Minister of Science and Technology to finalize the recommendations for the E-Commerce Action Plan to be included in the National IT Policy in 2000. This was a group of professionals and functionaries belonging to stakeholder organizations. Representation from government organizations like SBP, CBR (now FBR), EPB (now TDB) etc was obtained through official correspondence by MoST.
Frequency of participation of group members varied over time from 2000-2002. ECWG was divided into five subgroups for focussed study in different areas:
WG1: Awareness, Training
- ·Create awareness in business, industry and Govt.
- ·Training, education of stakeholders
- ·Conference, research
WG2: EC-Pak Infrastructure
- ·Plan, implement and monitor infrastructure
- ·Coordinate with international agencies for investment
WG5: Financial Working Group
- EFT enablement of banks
- Bank to Bank
- Inter-bank
- Bank-stakeholder
WG3: Trade Facilitation
- ·Standardize message structure for Internet /EDI/XML
- ·Set procedures
- ·Low cost, proven and effective solution to the end users
- ·Co-ordinate with UN/EDICAFT and AFACT
WG4: Legal Working Group
- ·Promotional legislation
- ·Liaison with international bodies for cyber laws implications
- ·Protection from cyber crimes
ECWG Sub-Groups
| Group Member | Group |
| Mr. Usmani | Regulation |
| Mr. Sattar & Sattar | |
| Shabbar Zaidi | |
| Ahsan Rizvi | |
| Amjad Jamshed | |
| Zainab | |
| Zaheer Asif | |
| Mahmood Sadiq | EFT |
| Arif Siddiqui Standard Chartered | |
| Amjad MCB | |
| Omar Asghar | |
| Askari | |
| Javed Naushahi | |
| Zaheer Asif | |
| Ahmed Allauddin | |
| M. M. Khan | Awareness |
| Zain | |
| Inayat | |
| Humayun Qureshi | |
| Anwar Hussain | |
| Atiq ur Rehman | |
| Sohail Jawwad | |
| Salma Mirza | |
| Dr. Asim | |
| Dr. Irfan Hyder | Infrastructure |
| Javed Agha | |
| Javed Naushahi | |
| Masood Bhatti | |
| Usmani (Banks Network) | |
| M. Mohsin (Epbnetwork) | |
| Javed Agha(CRnetwork) | |
| PIA/APL/Port Qasim(Portsnetwork | |
| Zafar Iqbal | Trade Facilitation |
| Imtiaz Ahmed | |
| Atiq Ur Rehman | |
| Rehan Wahid | |
| Zainab | |
| M.M Khan | |
| Shahid Mirza |
[The following list is not complete. It is in fact the list of participants of the first meeting held at IBA]
| Name | Name of Group | Designation | Company |
| Mirza Anwar Hussain | Awareness | Head of IT Department | CDC | |
| Mr. Ayaz Ghaznavi | Chief Executive | Computer World | ||
| Mr. Zainul Abedin | Consultant | Ex. CDC | ||
| Mr. Humayun Qureshi | Consultant | Ex. IBM | ||
| Mr. Inayat A. Ibrahim | Consultant | CSP and Ex. IBM | ||
| Mr. M. M. Khan | Chief Executive | National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. | ||
| Faisal Khan | MD | Net Access | ||
| Dr. Irfan Ahmed | PACE | |||
| Mr. Rehan Wahid | FEO | SBP | ||
| Salma Mirza | IBA | |||
| Mr. Omar Asghar | EFT | Head of Non-stop Banking | ABN-Amro Bank | |
| Mr. Amjad Farooq | SVP | MCB | ||
| Mr. Mahmood Siddiq | Information Systems | SBP | ||
| Arif Siddiqui | Standard Chartered Bank | |||
| Mr. Samee Askari | CSP | |||
| Mr. Furqan Qureshi | APIIT | |||
| Dr. M. Usman | Facilitation | Deputy Director | EPB, MoC | |
| Mr. Atiqur Rahman | Director | Jamal Yellow Pages | ||
| Mr. Zafar Iqbal | Collector Customs | Pakistan Customs, CBR | ||
| Mr. Shahid Mirza | Chief Executive | Saztel | ||
| Mr. Sohail Jawwad | FEO | SBP | ||
| Zainab Hameed | IBA | |||
| Mr. Javed Agha | PRAL, a subsidiary of CBR | |||
| Mr. Atiqur Rahman | ECGateway and Jamal Yellow Pages | |||
| Mr. Usmani | ||||
| Mr. Amir Usmani | Facilitation, Infrastructure, Regulations | Foreign Exchange Officer | SBP | |
| Mr. Faisal Javed | Infrastructure | Manager | APL | |
| Dr. Asim | VP | Cressoft | ||
| Mr. Muhammad Mohsin | Director | EDF | ||
| Mr. Mohsin | Director | EPB | ||
| Mr. Aftab Alam | Secretary | IT Task Force, Government of Sind | ||
| Mr. Fida Hussain Samoo | Manager | Pakistan Insurance Corporation | ||
| Mr. Masood Bhatti | Director PDN | PTCL | ||
| Mr. Zia Khan | Chief Executive | Xenosys | ||
| Mr. Ashir | CresSoft | |||
| Dr. Irfan Hyder | Deputy Director | IBA | ||
| Mr. Javed Naushahi | CSP | |||
| Mr. Usmani | SBP | |||
| Mr. Sikandar Gulzar | Regulation | Sr. Partner | Anjum Asim Shahid & Co. | |
| Mr. Shabbar Zaidi | FCA Partner | Fergusons | ||
| Mr. Waqas Muslim | Principal Consultant | FPCCI | ||
| Mr. Ahsan Rizvi | Executive | Rizvi Isa & Company | ||
| Mr. Abdul Sattar | Chief Executive | Sattar & Sattar & Co. | ||
| Shazia Yaqub | IBA | |||
| Mr. Amjad Jamshed | Regulation & Tax | I.A.C | Income Tax | |
| Zaheer Asif | Regulation/EFT | IBA | ||
| Mr. Tauqir Ghani | Chief Executive | Softnet Systems |