Datapoints: Points of Interest

Points of Interest
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Higher Education Commission Automates Student Administrative at Pakistan Universities

Higher Education Commission Automates Student Administrative at Pakistan Universities
The Higher Education Commission (HEC) was established the Government of Pakistan in 2002. Since then, the HEC has undertaken a five-year reform process to turn Pakistan’s Universities into world-class centers of education and research and development…
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Business Agenda for Pakistan’s IT and ITES Sector

Business Agenda for Pakistan’s IT and ITES Sector

[October 05 '09: Karachi, Pakistan]Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) in collaboration with CIPE holds a meeting at Avari Towers.
Chairman of P@SHA Mr. Imran Zia, President of P@SHA, Ms. Jehan Ara and CIPE Regional director Mr. Andrew Wilson addressed the audience at the CIPE event in collaboration [...]

PASHA ICT AWARDS

PASHA ICT AWARDS

[October 31st 2008: Karachi, Pakistan] The Pakistan IT & ITES sector has been growing at the rate of 30% to 50% each year for the past 5 years with the largest member companies grossing between 15-30 million dollars in annual revenue and receiving 100 million dollar valuations. CIO served as a [...]

Dollar Impact: the commentary!

We wanted to know what impact the dollar and economic situation was having on buying decisions made or recommended by the CIO in Pakistan. A lot of people wrote back and we’ve used some of their comments to explain and illustrate the situation in the Cover Story of this month’s CIO Pakistan; you can browse [...]

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 [...]

Disaster Management: What are we doing?

October 8 brings back terrifying memories of the horrifying earthquake that shook the greater part of northern Pakistan from its roots. An earthquake that measured 7.6 on the Richter scale was followed by over 120 significant aftershocks which showed up between 5 and 6.2 in magnitude. The quake destroyed towns and villages across a 30,000 [...]

Serving Tech Savvy: Mohammad Khalid Shah, Corporate Director IT, Avari Hotels

When you think of Pakistan you certainly don’t think much of the hospitality industry and give even lesser thought to how a hotel is run in the circumstances that it is. Having only a handful of names that include the likes of the Sheraton, Pearl Continental, Marriott and Holiday Inn, the lack of a strong [...]

Pssst, Want To Make Money Monetizing Social Networking Instead Of Time-Wasting Social NOT Working?

By Imran Anwar
FaceBook, MySpace, linkedin, and so many other social networking sites offer great ways to connect with people – and lose touch with reality (and the total time spent on a computer). That is even before location-aware GPS and RFID devices, married to addictive platforms like FaceBook, Twitter and MySpaceTime.net (more on that later) [...]

Drafting a Policy

The Ministry of IT, under the project entitled ‘National IT Development and Promotion Unit’ known as NIDU, called an urgent meeting on September 1, 2008 to review and reformulate the IT Policy and the way forward for the industry, for the next 5 years. Attended by some 50 professionals from across the country, the purpose [...]

Politically inclined

There are an increasing number of citizen’s journalists who analyze and critique the local political situation for a national and international audience through various blogs. Some of the most well known bloggers whose websites are regular visited for the analysis and breaking news happening out of Pakistan include pkpolitics.com and teeth.com.pk/blog while pakistaniat.com covers politics [...]

Click here to give back

If anyone is still wondering there is still a large enough Pakistani population online, stop counting the number of users and start counting the type and number of ads. The number of online ads that publicized the opportunity to donate or support one NGO or another during the month of Ramadan continued to rise throughout [...]

Reinvesting into Skill Development

A number of multinational companies make a valuable investment into the knowledge economy through skill transfer. Companies such as Oracle and Cisco Systems are two examples of companies that have programs to prepare students and graduates for the new knowledge economy. 

Smartphone users get FUZE conferencing service from CallWave

By Al Sacco, CIO.com
FRAMINGHAM (09/17/2008) – A new Web-based, high-definition (HD) collaboration service from CallWave, named FUZE, brings high-end content sharing and conferencing to any computer or smartphone with Web access, and it’s the first service of its kind that’ll work on mobile devices like the BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Nokia handsets.

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Celebrating Eid in Sync?

With all the technology we have access to (and yes, this phrase itself is starting to make me sound like a broken record!) we can’t seem to deliberate one day when we celebrate Eid. A muslim celebration marking the end of Ramadan, the month of Fasting, is announced at the sighting of the moon.

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