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WED – Need for paradigm shift: Ban Ki-moon
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 4:03 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16735" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Ban Ki-moon"][/caption] AS THE world gears up for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), World Environment Day is an opportunity to highlight the need for a paradigm shift towards a more sustainable world. This year’s theme, “Green Economy: Does it include you?”, more...
Green Economy – Link to sustainable development: Achim Steiner
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 4:02 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16731" align="alignright" width="114" caption="Achim Steiner"][/caption] A FEW years ago, the idea of a Green Economy with its links to sustainable development and poverty eradication, was a novel concept confined to development practitioners and academics. This year, it is among the top two issues that will be deliberated by policymakers at the more...
Making development sustainable: Akhtar Cheema
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 4:00 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16743" align="alignright" width="85" caption="Mahmood Akhtar Cheema"][/caption] THE INTERNATIONAL Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organization, with the mission to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and more...
Montreal Protocol – The single most successful international agreement: Asif Khan
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 3:59 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16738" align="alignright" width="85" caption="Muhammad Asif Khan"][/caption] THE MONTREAL Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer ,is one of the most successful environmental treaties to be concluded. This September it will be 25 years since the Montreal Protocol was singed in 1987 and over these years has resulted in complete more...
Renewable energy and climate change
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 3:26 pm | 0 Comment
THE AMOUNT of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has been rapidly increasing over the last hundred years. This is due to the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, which contain carbon. As the proportion of CO2 in the atmosphere changes, the way it retains heat also changes. Scientists now believe this is what is causing the average temperature of the earth to more...
Climate change perspective in Pakistan
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 3:25 pm | 0 Comment
THE CLIMATE Change is a rapidly unfolding challenge of catastrophic global, regional and national proportions. Pakistan will be affected by the impacts far more seriously than is generally recognized by the policy makers and opinion leaders. The most recent scientific assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that the global averaged more...
Climate change: Devastating deluge
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 3:24 pm | 0 Comment
By Michael Kugelman THE LAST two years have provided ample proof of Pakistan’s climate-change vulnerability. According to climatologists, the devastating floods of 2010 – which submerged a fifth of the country, and displaced millions constituted “the worst natural disaster to date attributable to climate change” (a judgment rendered in 2010). They argued more...
COMSATS – a proponent of social, economic, and environmental sustainability
By Technology Times at June 5, 2012 | 3:23 pm | 0 Comment
THE COMMISSION on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) was established in 1994 as a realization of a grand vision, conceived by the Pakistani Nobel Laureate, Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam, whereby the developmental gap between the North and the South was to be bridged through S&T capacity-building in developing countries. The mission more...
PTA doing all to empower women: PTA chief
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:13 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16495" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Dr. Muhammad Yaseen"][/caption] TODAY THE world is being run by information technology where we routinely come across digital and online devices and portals from reading newspaper online to payment of utility bills through mobile banking. In Pakistan, ICTs have reached every corner of the country; more...
PTCL committed with WTISD goals: Walid Irshaid
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:11 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16506" align="alignright" width="109" caption="Walid Irshaid"][/caption] ON BEHALF of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), it gives me great pleasure to commemorate the international 2012 World Telecommunication & Information Society Day (WTISD). Indeed, the ever-evolving ICTs have acted as a catalyst for the world in creating more...
Women excellent IT human resource: Naseer
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:10 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16499" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Naseer Akhtar"][/caption] T IS evident that the empowerment of women plays an important role in the success of nations. I believe amongst the biggest contributions of Mao Tse-Tung in China was the empowerment of women along with universal health and education. That vision has enabled China to where more...
Taping women potential in IT vital
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:09 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16501" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Abbas Ali Mirza"][/caption] I PERSONALLY feel that the theme this year i.e. "Women and Girls in ICT" is a barnburner in its true letter and spirit. In the world today, where the quest to lead and innovate has become the order of the day, the core essence behind any business is the ‘will to survive more...
Progress sans women out of question: Usman Sheikh
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:07 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16503" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Usman A. Sheikh"][/caption] INFORMATION AND knowledge are now synonymous with technology and communication. The hunger for information has given birth to a multibillion dollar ICT industry which has revolutionized the day to day life. The ICT industry is playing a pivotal role by providing the more...
CIS IT torch bearer in Pakistan: Asim Husain
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:06 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_16477" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Asim Sheheryar"][/caption] COMSATS INTERNET Services (CIS) is the pioneer ISP of Pakistan when it launched Internet services for the first time in the country in 1996. In 2011, CIS celebrated its 15 years of Internet operations in Pakistan through a customer event which was attended by Chairman PTA more...
COMSATS Internet Services a revolutionary dimension
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:05 pm | 0 Comment
HISTORY: Keeping in view the COMSATS mission of using technology for social service, COMSATS started COMSATS Internet Services (CIS) as the pioneer ISP of Pakistan in 1996 to not only offer internet connectivity to government departments but also to offer social services such as telehealth and training. At present, CIS is operating in 8 major cities of Pakistan including more...
ITU Secretary-General, Dr Hamadoun Touré
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:04 pm | 0 Comment
ICTS PLAY a catalytic role in creating opportunities for people in every walk of life, especially for those among us who are vulnerable and disadvantaged, while providing the framework for long-term sustainable development. This year, on WTISD, we are determined to harness the full potential of ICTs for the benefit of women and girls by eliminating gender disparities and more...
Theme WTISD 2012: “Women and Girls in ICT”
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 1:03 pm | 0 Comment
WOMEN ARE the bedrock of our societies. They are the pillars of strength in every family and community. Yet gender inequalities remain deeply entrenched. Women and girls are denied access to basic health care and education and to equal opportunities at work. They face segregation in economic, political and social decision-making and often suffer violence and more...
Alternative energy resource the ultimate destiny
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:21 pm | 0 Comment
Give brief account of your professional carrier. DR. MARCO LIGUORI: My career started, many years ago, as Officer in the Italian Air Force. I’ve been for 15 years; working in one of the most world advanced projects in Air Traffic Control Automation. It has been not only a work experience but also it was a school of advanced engineering that, together with two years as more...
Solar-PV streetlights enter Pakistan…..
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:20 pm | 0 Comment
By Faryal Najeeb Measures are being taken to power streetlights on all major roads in Karachi and Hyderabad with solar energy. Deputy Commissioner South, Mustafa Jamal Qazi, spoke to Technology Times and explained much more about the project details How did the government conceptualize the idea of installing solar-powered street lights? MUSATFA JAMAL QAZI: President more...
SOX lights the only remedy to power loadmanagement
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:17 pm | 0 Comment
ACCORDING TO a survey, Pakistan, which is facing the worst kind of power shortfall, consumes about 400 megawatts for streetlights. This consumption could be much more than 900 megawatts as if the line losses are added to it. The country, where power crisis is getting worst with the every day passing, cannot be in a position to afford this wastage of energy. While on the more...
The prospects of solar energy for power generation
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:15 pm | 0 Comment
By Dr. Noor Fatima THE COUNTRY is presently confronted by a severe energy crisis that has jeopardized the national industrial production on the one hand and made the lives of people miserable, especially students. There is a close link between energy security and overall development. The latter will continue to deteriorate if the major problem of power outages is not more...
Sira power management solution for Pak milk chillers
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:14 pm | 0 Comment
PAKISTAN, BEING dependent mainly on agriculture and livestock, is the sixth major milk producing country of the world. Local consumption of milk is still high but the consumers especially in urban areas are gradually shifting to packed milk. What factors could be mentioned behind this major shift, but it is fact that the rising demand processed milk has give encouraged more...
Solving Pakistan’s energy crisis
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:12 pm | 1 Comments
By Rizwan Ghani OUR PRIME minister has said that it is difficult to overcome country’s energy crisis in immediate term but there is still hope. Instead of spending billions on energy sector, Pakistan needs to make clear and transparent policies on renewable so that public and private sectors can make necessary investments. Pakistan can have wind energy on lines of more...
Cheaper options for solar power
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:09 pm | 0 Comment
By Hussain Ahmad Siddiqui RAPID DEVELOPMENT in solar energy technologies has made it an alternative to fossil-fuel power generation in many countries. But Pakistan does not have to depend on borrowed ideas for generating bulk solar power at a high cost, when other economical options are available. In a bid to overcome electricity loadshedding, the Punjab government more...
The wasted solar solution
By Technology Times at April 16, 2012 | 3:08 pm | 0 Comment
By Najma Sadeque via TET THE MOST embittering aspect of the mass misery over electricity is that the crippling shortages never had to happen. Pakistan could have adopted solar energy years ago if government priorities had focused less on protectionist privatisation and more on people. The number of solar-electrified homes in Bangladesh recently numbered a million. This more...
