National Strategy Workshop – Strengthening Women’s Strategic Use of ICT to Combat Violence against Women

PASHA and Bytes For All organized a 2-day National Strategy Workshop on National Strategy Workshop – Strengthening Women’s Strategic Use of ICT to Combat Violence against Women.
Bytes for All (B4A) is a South Asia wide regional network of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals and practitioners. B4A is [...]

Can Pakistan’s Fastest Go Viral?

Dawn writes, “Pakistan’s Naseem Akhtar created history on Monday by becoming the fastest woman of the region when she won the 100-meter sprint gold medal at the South Asian Games.” And beyond the pride and excitement I feel for this young woman, I feel a greater sense of excitement for the rest of us because [...]

The Face Value of Doing Business

Over the past several months, we’ve been trying to track the quantifiable trends which help to stimulate business activities amongst people. Of course there is no way you can learn ‘social networking for business’, nor can you really tackle which campaign or interview may have actually helped to build your brand the most, but if [...]

Security in the Cloud

The Cloud is full of feature-rich applications which enable us to do more than we could ever dream of doing before. It is a universally understood fact that the Cloud enables companies to operate more efficiently and reduce their CapEx investment. The fact that SaaS, IaaS and PaaS make it easier for operations to be [...]

Can you Reuse the Refuse?

A Look at reusing old hardware to decrease the burden onthe CapEx without
killing the OpEx…even in Pakistan!
Things aren’t always what they seem to be. Case in point, a pile of junk, isn’t always a pile of junk. And if you’re anything like the many technology enthusiasts who buy hardware directly as opposed to through a [...]

Industry Rising?

How much of the economic sludge can the new fiscal budget actually help to relieve? Every industry has its strong points to consider, hence making a business case to one association or another as to why or why not it should be in the tax net. But when you look at the Information Technology sector, [...]

Networking 2.0: Driving Networking Through the Power of Online

There’s a whole science behind it while others refer to it as an art. Knowing how to get the most effective utility out of a networking opportunity provided to you is tough work.

Where Do Our CIOs Stand?

We interviewed a 100 CIOs and IT Heads across various industries in Pakistan and here’s what we came up with. You can preview the PDF of our December 2008 Cover Story, but we’d like you to share your insights as to the accuracy or relevance of the data we have collected.

The Balancing Act: An Economy and a CIO

Umair Naeem takes a look…
As Pakistan continues to go through increasing inflation and economic instability due to the political situation and the Rupee’s inability to hold on to the coat tails of the Dollar, local and multinational companies and SMEs face an unenviable situation: balancing cost and profit ratios by trying to predict how the [...]

Web 2.0 for the CIO: Too Hard To Handle?

It’s a state of mind more than anything else. A CIO’s job today can’t be an easy one, and the Web2.0 we all love to love, isn’t making the Chief a very happy camper. One of the main reasons that an interactive internet is so good is because of the bi-directional ease with which information [...]

Project: Computerized Electoral Roll System

Pakistan’s general elections were held on the 18th of February, 2008 after a series of incidents that literally rocked the foundations of the country. After experiencing a bullish market and a stability that we hadn’t experienced in decades, March 2007 to today, Pakistan has had to face one conundrum after another.

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