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Unabated killing of innovations
By Technology Times at May 5, 2013 | 2:24 am | 0 Comment
A RECENT United Nations study has revealed that Pakistan has 162 researchers for a million people as compared to 135 in India. This, of course, is an encouraging point on the part of Pakistan, however, when it comes to taking research to a logical and innovative end through patent registration, Pakistan is not even close to its neigbouring state as the latter has five more...
Capitalising on ICTs market
By Technology Times at April 28, 2013 | 12:25 pm | 1 Comments
ACCORDING TO the Global Information Technology Report, recently released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Pakistan’s ranking in ICT has declined to 105th from its 102nd registered in 2012. And there are strong indications that it may further go down in the wake of persistent absence of any foreign direct investments and approach to effectively tap the ICT potential more...
Political approach and S&T sector
By Technology Times at April 19, 2013 | 1:40 am | 0 Comment
THE ELECTION fever has started gripping the whole Pakistani nation with the general elections getting near. Political forces of the country, particularly, are flexing their muscles and have planned to attract or convince the voters by applying various strategies to ballot their votes in their favour. At this stage, almost all political parties have finalized their more...
Significance of ICTs in better farming
By Technology Times at April 10, 2013 | 8:39 pm | 0 Comment
ACCORDING TO a report, in Pakistan each day approximately 500 acres of farmland out of total 80 million hectares cultivable lands are taken out of agriculture by the expansion of settlements, roads, factories and other non-agricultural activities, which is considered one of the potent factors behind the regular decline in per acre yield. In routine, farmers consider more...
Need to popularise ICTs use in schools
By Technology Times at April 3, 2013 | 4:17 pm | 0 Comment
INFORMATION AND Communication Technologies (ICTs) like internet, television, radio, mobile, networks, are the major phenomena around which the whole fabric of modern technology revolves. However, since the start of the 21st century, the education field is confronted with several multiple social, cultural, technical and economical problems. The educational technology helps more...
Reforming farm sector through broadband
By Technology Times at March 25, 2013 | 4:27 pm | 1 Comments
THE BARRIERS of time and distance are easily broken down through availability of high speed internet facility to people at their doorstep allowing them to have a chance to participate in the civic and economic life that lies far beyond their territorial boundaries. Where almost all sectors are steadily reaping the benefits of this IT revolution, the farming sector more...
Yawning need for water quality
By Technology Times at March 22, 2013 | 5:26 pm | 0 Comment
WATER IS an essential element for our survival. Unfortunately, Pakistan despite having blessed with adequate surface and groundwater resources is experiencing deteriorating water quality as well as quantity chiefly due to the rapid population growth and urbanisation. Contamination of lakes, rivers and groundwater has consequently increased waterborne diseases and other more...
Need for operational science centre
By Technology Times at March 13, 2013 | 7:24 pm | 0 Comment
PATRONISING SCIENCE education has always been the area in Pakistan, where the successive governments have accorded least priority to this ever important sector despite tall claims by the political leadership. Presently, the country is standing at a crossroads with no mature approach to effectively visualise about progress areas. Science centres across the developed world more...
Need to produce technologists
By Technology Times at March 6, 2013 | 10:20 pm | 0 Comment
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT in Pakistan is reaching epidemic proportions. Some estimates put it as high as 35 per cent, however, the real number may well be higher. This is not a simple problem that can be fixed by making a policy here or there. It requires a coordinated approach. This includes education and training, managing and modifying social norms and expectations, and more...
Need for smooth e-banking
By Technology Times at March 2, 2013 | 12:01 am | 0 Comment
WITH THE boom of information technology and communication facilities in Pakistan during the last several years, the banking sector has opened a window of service packages especially the online banking to their customers across the country. According to a recent report of State Bank of Pakistan, the overall value and volume of ATM transactions increased by 10.33 percent more...
Good decision, at last!
By Technology Times at February 20, 2013 | 5:24 pm | 0 Comment
THE GOVERNMENT has recently given a four-year extension in service to Dr. Imtinan Qureshi as executive director COMSATS - an government-run institute established in 1994. Dr. Qureshi, having over 30-year rich experience especially in the field of scientific research, teaching and administration while remaining as Chief Scientist in Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, is more...
Ending starvation in capital venture
By Technology Times at February 10, 2013 | 7:44 pm | 0 Comment
IT GOES without saying that the concept of venture investments has positively proved its worth in the wake of remarkable growth and development in the modern world. Ranging from the ordinary sector to the science & technology, information, defence areas and even the space programmes have now started witnessing the major role of venture investments. Particularly, more...
Dilemma about potable water
By Technology Times at February 5, 2013 | 1:27 pm | 0 Comment
A RECENTLY conducted nation-wide Assessment Survey of more than 10,000 water supply schemes (1808 urban and 8320 rural water supply schemes) carried out by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) reveals that 72 per cent schemes are operational and only 23 per cent and 14 percent of the water supply schemes in urban and rural areas respectively are more...
Mishandling the YouTube issue!
By Technology Times at February 1, 2013 | 12:40 am | 0 Comment
ACCORDING TO a recent report compiled to assess how much the months-long ban on YouTube has impacted academic re- search in Pakistan, academics have not been affected by it, which is not a surprise considering that many don’t even take it seriously. A lot of people who are interested have been forced to use proxy websites to access the site, but this is not the solution more...
Bad predictions about telecom sector
By Technology Times at January 20, 2013 | 12:21 pm | 0 Comment
REPORTS ARE predicting that Pakistan’s telecommunication industry will continue to suffer bad times particularly during the first half of the year 2013 thereby meaning no foreign direct investments, no progress, no more jobs and no economic activities even in the second half of the current year. The calling rates will go up while the industry as a whole will be more...
Yawning gap of technicians
By Technology Times at January 16, 2013 | 1:14 am | 0 Comment
WHERE THE contribution of all important sectors is important in the development of a state, the role of technicians is equally vital which has vividly been established in the face of the progress in economy, science and technology and other areas of the developed countries. However, coming of such things to Pakistan regrettably is still a distant dream. The country is more...
Mother of all agriculture crisis!
By Technology Times at January 6, 2013 | 1:49 pm | 0 Comment
FOOD SECURITY issue has not been new now in Pakistan especially with the gradual decline in agriculture production for the last many years due to multiple factors like water shortage, low quality seeds, rising prices of agriculture inputs, environment impacts, low usage of fertilizers, and low returns on crops. But more of it now is the critical shortage of local more...
The point to take pride!
By Technology Times at December 31, 2012 | 1:21 pm | 0 Comment
IT SPRINGS no surprise at all when it comes to fore that there are innumerable areas in Pakistan that have ever witnessed any significant progress for the last many decades. Conventional methodologies and orthodox approaches dominate the sectors especially agriculture, environment and, science & technology, which has got an envious niche across the world, regrettably more...
Other side of SIMs retail sale ban
By Technology Times at December 25, 2012 | 8:14 pm | 0 Comment
DEVISING SHALLOW and immature policies has always been the ‘privilege’ of the state authorities in one way or the other, apparently to benefit some quarters or individuals, or due to lack of the required level of vision. But the common man of this country has to bear the brunt of all this misgovernance. This time the axe falls on the poor retailers of telecom industry more...
Rising cost of climate change
By Technology Times at December 16, 2012 | 4:17 pm | 0 Comment
ACCORDING TO an important leaked draft of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), humans are responsible for global warming, rising sea levels and extreme weather events and that a rise in global average temperatures since pre-industrial times is set to exceed 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, and may reach 4.8 Celsius. This prediction seems believable if one more...
Unnoticed but potential threat to human life
By Technology Times at December 12, 2012 | 5:11 pm | 0 Comment
THE TELECOM sector in Pakistan has registered a steep growth with the rising number of cell phone users crossing the figure of 120 million, means one person one cell phone. And of course the mobile companies subsequently had to install as well as expand their network especially the installation of power-driven telecom towers to ensure wider coverage of their services more...
Like shelving Urdu as a subject
By Technology Times at December 3, 2012 | 8:23 pm | 0 Comment
WHAT THE Indian Hindus had done with Urdu language before the partition of the Sub-Continent is not a surprising tale story, when one cruel and entirely irrational policies of Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) regarding almost ‘burying’ Urdu, the official language of the country. Most recently the HEC has removed Urdu as subject from the compulsory more...
Telecom watchdog’s axing night call packages!
By Technology Times at November 28, 2012 | 4:15 pm | 0 Comment
THE PAKISTAN Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recently ordered all local cellular phone companies to immediately shut all night call packages and chat room services citing these services are not suitable for social norms and considered immoral in our Islamic society. As far as the argument of the telecom watchdog is concerned, it looks very sane and just as majority more...
Where is PTA?
By Technology Times at November 20, 2012 | 6:48 pm | 0 Comment
THERE IS hardly any iota of doubt that the information and communication technologies have boomed the whole spectrum of life across the world; the trends of business have entirely changed positively significantly reducing time as well as cost. But this is not so all the time. Since the recent past, the political parties in Pakistan have started using ICTs for the spread more...
Gas to fertilizer plants: Sanity should prevail
By Technology Times at November 13, 2012 | 6:50 pm | 0 Comment
FOLLOWING THE persistent natural gas loadshedding especially to the fertilizer sector, the Ministry of Petroleum has reportedly proposed to the government to adjust investments by fertilizer plants for the development of transmission infrastructure against Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) from the fertilizer industry under its long-term plan for gas supply to more...
