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IT share in local economic set to swell
By Technology Times at August 7, 2012 | 12:28 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: NetSol Technologies CEO and Chairman Salim Ghauri has said that the local IT industry will be highly visible in the country’s economy within the next five years. “Over 1,000 IT companies are operating in the country with over 100,000 employees; generating over a billion dollars in IT exports,” he said while talking to media here. He added that more...
Innovation – novel approach towards economic prosperity
By Technology Times at July 30, 2012 | 6:27 pm | 0 Comment
By Mariam Naseer THE RELATIVE importance of various drivers of economic growth and prosperity has evolved over time, and, for a growing number of countries, innovation in its many dimensions is emerging as the key factor for development. The term “innovation” means the creation of better or more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that 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...
PTCL stimulating economic growth
By Technology Times at May 15, 2012 | 3:12 pm | 0 Comment
By Palwasha Qazi LEADING THE telecommunication industry from the front, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is now the country's largest converged services carrier, providing all telecommunication services from basic voice telephony to data, internet, video-conferencing and carrier services to consumers, including telecom operators, and the corporate sector more...
Economic indicators of Pakistan telecom industry
By Technology Times at April 2, 2012 | 4:16 pm | 1 Comments
By Aamir Attaa Pakistan’s economy remained stressed in the first half of the financial year 2010-11 (July-Dec). This downtime didn’t occur only because of global trends, but mainly due to unprecedented floods that had damaged one-fourth of the country’s agriculture land last year. The catastrophe resulted into high oil pricing, damages to private and public 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...
SUPARCO in revolutionising Pak socio-economic uplift
By Technology Times at February 22, 2012 | 11:23 am | 3 Comments
Ahmed Bilal Chairman SUPARCO SUPARCO - the Space Agency of Pakistan was established on September 1961 under the advice of no other than the Noble Laureate Dr Abdus Salam, shortly after the first-ever manned flight by Yuri Gagarin from erstwhile USSR. This speaks volumes about the vision of our founding forefathers. Notwithstanding the difficult road traversed, more...
PSF matures important national, economic projects
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 2:55 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) is providing nutritional evaluation and nutritional quality improvement for different food products under several research projects and assignment. PSF has been successful in establishing strong and sustainable industrial linkage between Food and Biotechnology Research Centre (FBRC), PCSIR Labs. ComplexLahoreand more...
