Danyal Hayat is an Engineer, Open Education advocate & a blogger who uses National/International platforms to run awareness campaigns & contribute to the Pakistani government policies being a stakeholder & member of the working groups in different policy making processes. Danyal has also been an active member of the Prime Minister's Youth Program (PMYP) Youth Advisory Group.Through the initiative of Prime Minister's Youth Laptop Program, which is one of the 6 schemes of PMYP, more than 300,000 laptops have been distributed among the university students & young researchers, who are also given free access to internet and to online courses (partnership with coursera.org) at subsidised rates, making it the biggest milestone towards OE in Pakistan.