Browsing Tag ICT
ICT journalists workshop organised by Microsoft
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 5:27 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Microsoft has arranged a first ever of kind event titled “ICT Journalists Workshop” held at the Kuch Khaas here last week which offered bloggers and journalists a chance to get to know each other as well as see how they could work hand in hand to work for the betterment of Pakistan. Ammar Jaffri, President and CEO of PISA, and Sohaib Khalil, more...
Bureaucracy and its unfamiliarity with ICT
By Technology Times at June 23, 2012 | 4:46 pm | 0 Comment
THE QUALIFIER of a Central Superior Services (CSS) exam is considered certified among the few extraordinarily genius beings capable of serving the country at higher governmental cadres. For a common person, the image of ‘bureaucracy’ refers to a clan of super-genius officials busy in preparing policies centered to their own benefits. Such circles lack the more...
ICT role in SME sector growth
By Technology Times at June 18, 2012 | 4:40 pm | 0 Comment
THERE IS hardly any iota of doubt that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has a key role to play in driving innovation and competitiveness for small businesses and the IT sector itself. But at the same time equipping the labour force with the right skills and providing access to high-tech infrastructure are still major grey areas especially in Pakistan that 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...
2 multi-billion rupees ICT projects under way in Sindh
By Technology Times at May 29, 2012 | 12:23 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The Information Technology Department of Sindh is undertaking two multibillion-rupee mega IT projects, Arfa Karim IT City and Geoghraphical Information System (GIS) for Sindh, to promote and develop ICT infrastructure in the province. This was stated by Sindh IT Minister Syed Raza Haroon while speaking at the inauguration of the 7th ICT exhibition and more...
A window to National ICT R&D Fund
By Technology Times at May 22, 2012 | 11:12 am | 0 Comment
THE NATIONAL ICT R&D Fund, a company registered under the Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance 1984, with the vision to transform Pakistan's economy into a knowledge based economy by promoting efficient, sustainable and effective ICT initiatives through synergic development of industrial and academic resources. A complete range of Fund’s initiatives and R&D more...
Another sham ICT funding project
By Technology Times at May 15, 2012 | 3:18 pm | 0 Comment
There are two main things that are currently causing out growth in ICT to stall. One is the lack of original ideas, so most of the entrepreneurs either copy what is already around internationally or locally, we still have not hit the jackpot with someone creating something. The second issue always lamented by entrepreneurs is lack of any funding sources in Pakistan. One more...
Women in ICT: Myth and reality in developing regions
By Technology Times at May 15, 2012 | 3:17 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_15933" align="alignright" width="113" caption="Mirza Abdul Aleem Baig"][/caption] NOWADAYS IT is well-known that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can give new opportunities for development to everybody. Yet lack of access to in developing countries creates difficulties to people for individual and social advancement as well. more...
Branded ICT companies find wide scope in Punjab
By Technology Times at May 9, 2012 | 11:53 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT LHR: As a step forward towards promoting information technology in the province, the Punjab government has recently signed a number of memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with the world’s renowned IT companies. Under the MoUs, the American company Microsoft will train students in internet based self-employment methods, Cisco will set up Cisco Network Academy more...
ICT R&D Fund urged to conduct IT survey in SMEs
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 2:21 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) President Zulfikar Thaver has urged the National ICTR&D Fund to carry out a complete survey of the SMEs indicating their complete details location, industry, capacity, experience, performance and investment of each SME together with the tax registration numbers and ratings. He said this in a 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...
ICT task force announced
By Technology Times at March 24, 2012 | 11:55 am | 0 Comment
ISLAMAABAD: Chairperson of PCST, Ministry of Science and Technology, Prof. Dr. Mudassar Israr, has announced the foundation of "ICT Task Force for formation of ICT Commission of Pakistan". She said this during a recently held meeting of Technology Foresight Committee for ICT for Sustainable Development. The PCST has Technology Foresight Committees for the Sustainable more...
ICT R&D Fund plans to finance IT sector survey
By Technology Times at February 14, 2012 | 2:53 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The National ICT R&D Fund has planned to finance a comprehensive survey study of Pakistan Information Technology (IT) and Enable Services (ITES) industry in order to collect database of all operating companies of all sizes including key economic indicators, business volume and turnover, their technical and human resources, and rudimentary more...
Another Pak boy makes history in ICT
By Technology Times at February 14, 2012 | 2:04 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: After Arfa Karim and Babar Iqbal now another Pakistani wonder boy has bent description after making Microsoft and Google certified seven computer operating systems in suburb of Abbottabad. This 14-year student, Sikandar Mehmood Baloch, has not only converted into certified expert of 107 computer engineering languages, but also received all valuable more...
TES displays Internet, data products at ICT Global
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:46 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: The Transworld Enterprise Services (TES) and its exhibited products were positively received by conference delegates at the thematic exhibition of ICT Global recently held at the Lahore International Expo Center. The exhibition was aimed at providing an opportunity to network with ICT players, opinion-formers, and top decision makers. The format was more...
Connecting rural-urban divide thru ICT for better life
By Technology Times at January 16, 2012 | 4:36 pm | 0 Comment
THE INTERNATIONAL Telecommunication Union has declared the 17th May, the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), as a day to raise awareness on the benefits of ICT tools such as the television, radio, mobile phones and the Internet and other means of bridging the digital divide. Last year the theme for World Telecommunication and Information Society more...
PTA launches ICT applications on website
By Technology Times at January 7, 2012 | 2:38 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched various application services on its online national rabta portal (www.pakistan.pk). The primary focus behind the launch is to assist local Internet users in retrieving various information specific to Internet resource information and content of the country, says a statement issued by the more...
