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Science and development
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 6:39 pm | 0 Comment
By Rao Javaid Iqbal THE SCIENCE in development refers to many of the concepts in the mind. It may include the following: • The scientific methods utilized in the community development, or the development of the poorest of the poor people • The innovative technologies and scientific instruments utilized for the community development • The innovative more...
Basis for science & development
By Technology Times at July 17, 2012 | 5:29 am | 0 Comment
by Rao Javed THERE ARE few foundations for science and technology without which the country cannot grow. We have developed thousands of colleges and hundreds of universities. But there is hardly any concrete working on the knowledge creation and innovation. All the work is indeed being copied from abroad. Most of the scientific innovations are being copied and produced more...
Telenor inks digital development deal with Isobar
By Technology Times at June 9, 2012 | 4:11 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Telenor Pakistan has awarded a contract to Isobar MENA, a UK based digital marketing company having its MENA office in Dubai, for the development of integrated online platform that will become the anchor for a series of initiatives targeting the urban youth of Pakistan, said a statement issued by Isobar. Isobar, which develops websites, digital 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...
Health ICT towards the millennium development goals
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 12:14 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_14846" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Mirza Aleem Baig"][/caption] THE CURRENT telecommunication technologies have an astonishing ability for transmitting information. The internet provides abundant database, reference materials, and online journals that all have given an enormous significance to connectivity in developing regions of more...
S&T development termed key to economic growth
By Technology Times at February 25, 2012 | 2:27 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Developing countries cannot make any significant progress unless they incorporate science and technology in their economic planning. “We are fully aware of the fact that COMSATS member states have several common socio-economic problems and most of these problems cannot be solved unless we break the barriers of isolation in science and technology,” more...
COMSATS’ role in science-led sustainable development in the South
By Technology Times at February 22, 2012 | 11:10 am | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_13079" align="alignright" width="142" caption="Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. I.E. Qureshi"][/caption] THE COMMISSION on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) is an Inter-Governmental Organization (IGO) with its permanent Secretariat in Islamabad. The organization was established in 1994 as a realization of more...
Science & teck must for development: PSF chief
By Technology Times at February 14, 2012 | 3:50 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT PSH: Chairman, Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), Dr Manzoor Hussein Soomro, has said that promotion of science and technology is inevitable for the development of any country. “Pakistan is an agricultural country and its 70 per cent population is directly and indirectly related to the sector. For the development of the sector the utilisation of modern more...
Miliband to support agri development in Pakistan
By Technology Times at January 23, 2012 | 5:30 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Indus Basin Holding (IBH), a leading agricultural development company in Pakistan, has announced that Britain’s former Foreign Secretary, The Rt Hon David Miliband MP, has become a Senior Advisor.IBH invests in high-growth agricultural projects which help improve and develop land farmed in Pakistan’s Indus river basin, one of the largest irrigated more...
