Five of the 10 finalists from Pakistan are women who are enrolled in a variety of courses like computer science, electrical engineering, English linguistics, and software engineering.
The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) programme of the Asian Development Bank ADB has chosen up to 10 Pakistani students from four different Pakistani universities as finalists for a prestigious innovation challenge.
The CAREC University Startup Generator is a regional innovation competition for college students in Central Asia that aims to foster students’ practical, entrepreneurial, and soft skills. According to the competition’s official description on the CAREC website, “This initiative of Innovation Challenge of ADB intends to support the development of talent…and foster innovative approaches to addressing local challenges.”
The Pakistani teams that were chosen as finalists are students at Lahore College for Women University, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, NED University of Engineering and Technology, and ISRA University Hyderabad.
Five of the 10 finalists from Pakistan are women who are enrolled in a variety of courses like computer science, electrical engineering, English linguistics, and software engineering. Goddard-Discovery, a project competing in the mobility tech space, has two female students from Pakistan on its team: Nimra Naeem and Unzila Khan.Muhammad Ali, from Pakistan, and Nihat Abbasov, from Azerbaijan, make up the other two members.
In order to make tasks more effective and efficient, this project is automating the literature review process for researchers. It also provides several collaborative tools and a workspace for remote workers. RideEase is a different finalist project that was created entirely by Isra University Hyderabad’s Pakistani students.
Muhammad Saood Khan, Muhammad Shehzore Hashmi, and Bibi Alisha Sanam Talpur make up the team. In order to provide safe and effective transportation, they are creating a cutting-edge self-driving car system that combines cutting-edge AI technologies and computer vision algorithms.
Inovo, a bicycle ride-sharing platform, is the third project by Pakistani students and is also in the clean technology category. It was created by Maimoon Ahmad, Uswah Saeed, Muhammad Awais, and Moizza Azhar, all engineering and technology students from the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore.
Teams from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, China, Mongolia, and Mongolian students are competing against these students. On March 29, (today), the teams will present their projects to a panel of judges, and four winners will be revealed later in April. A total of 168 teams representing 580 students from 10 CAREC countries entered the competition; 10 of those teams were chosen as finalists.