Building an ICT R&D Eco-System in Pakistan: A Conversation with Dr Qasim...
On Funding Projects from the Industry STEP: Till now, mostly you were funding projects in the academia. Would you be looking at funding projects that are directly initiated by the industry? QS: We are...
View ArticleLearning by Sharing: A New Business Model for Pakistan
Is division, confinement, and hierarchy of knowledge the model to create and sustain an organization in the upcoming decades? No. This is supported by theory with successful case studies and field...
View ArticleA Hindi to Urdu Converter and Urdu Transliteration Bookmarklet
Dynamic Language Tools is a bookmarklet application which I have developed, which helps users read and write Urdu easily on any web page without installing any software. This tool uses the Google...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship: For Passion and Profit
Entrepreneurship is an attitude. It’s the passion of creation. It’s an outlook on solving problems. It’s the embodiment of human resilience. It’s the vision of crossing the chasm. Sound fantastic? So,...
View ArticleEstablishing Technology Incubators in Pakistan: Part 1/2
Entrepreneur types will tell you that every problem is an opportunity in disguise. If that were true, Pakistan would be the “land of opportunity”. But are they wrong when they say it? Nearly all of...
View ArticleAtlas of Islamic World Science and Innovation (AIWSI): Introduction to the...
Editors’ Note: The Atlas project team is seeking examples of significant scientific or commercialisation accomplishments in Muslim countries that have received major international acclaim or achieved...
View ArticleEstablishing Technology Incubators in Pakistan: Part 2/2
Editors: This is the second part of “Establishing Technology Incubators in Pakistan.” The first part can be read here. As part of our efforts to try and develop a “Do-It-Yourself” incubation center in...
View Article(Re-)Designing the National ICT R&D Fund
Of late, the National ICT R&D Fund has been in the news a lot and its performance (or lack of it) over the last several years has been a source of much concern for IT professionals and informed...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article‘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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