Can Location-Based Tools Be Used for Coordinating Relief Efforts?
Well, why can’t they be? When Face2Face launched their global release of the Face2Face app, it was meant to put together like-minded people and objectives together. If you know where people are around you, wouldn’t you reach out to them?
There are now countless relief efforts that are [...]
Google has approved a grant of US$250,000 towards the Flood Relief efforts in Pakistan. More details to be posted soon though a dedicate home page will be set up through google.com.pk shortly.There will obviously be a great deal of due diligence before funds can be disseminated through to registered NGOs and Associations that are doing [...]
With reference to last night’s post and my discussion with Tahira Abdullah, here are some more details that she has been kind enough to send across:
This is a Civil Society group of activists based in Islamabad (not a registered NGO or charity) – Emergency flood relief work & short-term future plans (initial focus on Swat [...]
While trying to figure out who to contact, a friend of mine nudged me in HR Activist Tahira Abdulla’s direction. I met with Tahira Khala a few months ago when Bytes For All and P@SHA organized workshops on Women’s Activism, and was sold to her humanity she was possessed with.
I called her up a few [...]
If you’re supporting a Flood Relief effort and want to get the word out, here’s our way of supporting you:
Come by the CIO WebStudio anytime of your convenience and record your video appeal. We’ll edit the video and generate a video for you to let others know about why and how they can participate. We’ll [...]
It’s times of crisis and unfortunate tragedies that raise a red flag in our lives to stop. Slow down the fast pace of life we have integrated into our highly connected lives. Stop and dedicate a moment of silence to our brothers and sisters who have lost their lives in the tragic air crash of [...]
FESF stands for Family Education Services Foundation that has been managed by a dedicated group of foreigners living in Karachi for almost 20 years. Though FESF caters to the deaf community in Pakistan, every summer, a large group of volunteers gather in a few locations to extend their support to teaching children and young men [...]
It’s been mistyped on websites, documents and brochures, and my heart stops each time I read it. There was almost a cardiac arrest incurred when I got this email, sent through a mass mailing list.. I’ve blurred out the name of the parent company but I’m sure this was sent to so many places, once [...]
May and June seems to have push forward a change in perspective, moreso than most other months in the year have been able to provoke. Like stormchasers that run after the tornado for the love and passion of it, many people run towards Pakistan with their own quest to find that raison d’etre that keeps [...]
Okay – I was refraining from writing about the ban until I came across this jpg in my mailbox. Then the self-imposed ban was, well, banished and this post happened.
You have to understand one thing about the Web – websites survive because it generates traffic. Traffic is generated because people click on a link that [...]
So it is! It’s all official and we’ve announced the results on the Pakistan Blog Awards website. For those of you who either had blog or bloggers in the running, the judges and panels had a tough time going through everything you guys showcased! To be fair, if it wasn’t you 207 bloggers who took [...]
So it’s all finally official! The Blog Awards Ceremony and UnConference has been scheduled for May 28, 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan. The judges have been identified and we’ve moved into the final phase of the awards.
Official emails and updates will be sent to all the participants from the Blog Awards website apprising them of the [...]
And while the CIO WebStudio assumes a life of its own with the number of regular shows, one-off interviews and soundbytes, we’re adding Bandwidth TV into our spectrum. In addition to the Executive Panorama and the XFactor, a talkshow hosted by Imtiaz Mohammad, CIO Pakistan adds on an audio podcast called Hello! You can read [...]
NED’s Shehzad Saleem leads Ahsan Saeed and Adeel Amin to victory in PROCOM 2010’s Hardware Competition.
In a chat with CIO Pakistan, Shehzad says, “It is a great honor for me and my teammates to win the Hardware Competition in Procom.net 2010. This would not be possible without encouragement and support of our teachers, parents, [...]
Taha Rafiq, winner of the Programming Competition spoke with CIO Pakistan in an exclusive chat right after the PROCOM 2010 awards ceremony.
When asked how it felt to win, Taha replied, “Well, the victory was… awesome! It’s always great competing against the best from across the country and winning. There were a lot [...]
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