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Possibilities Pakistan: Volunteer Guidance for Undergraduate Applicants
Possibilities Pakistan has entered the Dell Social Innovation Competition, and is competing for the prize ($50,000), which will be used to fund the printing of their magazine and the expansion of their...
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The Higher Everything Commission?
Recently, in an article titled “HEC Should Return to Pakistan”, Jehanzeb Ahmed, Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Bahria University, made the case that technology, not science, is the...
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HEC Devolution to Provinces – A Step Backward
According to the news reports published in The News and Dawn, the implementation commission of 18th amendement has decided to devolve Higher Education Commission to provinces. From the details that...
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The Making of Cricket Revolution: A Conversation with Babar Ahmed
Babar Ahmad is the CEO of Mindstorm Studios, a gaming start up in Lahore, Pakistan. Babar is focused on creating world-class gaming titles on the PC and console platforms from within Pakistan. Babar...
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Project Topi: Student-Powered Philanthropy
In a country where a quarter of the population lives under the poverty line, and millions of children who should be enlightening themselves with knowledge spend their childhood working in shabby...
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‘SCI’ Is Not The Limit: A Conversation with Dr. Umar Saif
Umar Saif is Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and heads the Saif Center of Innovation (SCI, pronounced as ‘sky’), an incubator...
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Iron Range Engineering: A Model For Higher Education in Pakistan
Now that the debate on whether to devolve or dissolve or d-something HEC has –at least for the time being — ended, it is time to go back to the fundamental challenges facing Pakistan in higher...
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Regulations for Voice and Data Traffic Monitoring in Pakistan
A recent post on Slashdot reported a new set of regulations promulgated by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on March 11, 2010, titled “Monitoring and Reconciliation of Telephony Traffic...
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Umar Saif Selected as Young Innovator Under 35 By Technology Review
Umar Saif, associate professor at LUMS, has been selected as a Young Innovator under 35 by Technology Review magazine, published by MIT. His work has been cited for improving connectivity in poor...
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Discussion: Should PTA ban certain words from text messages?
Pakistan telecommunication authority is asking all telecom providers to ban a list of words from text messages that it considers inappropriate. The deadline to institute this ban is Monday, November...
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