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Digital Bangladesh

By Isha Khan • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Ironical to note that the term “Digital Bangladesh” still remains as a misunderstood concept to many. Due to the strong desire of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina the vision has been accepted with interest in the Government, private sector and as well as the politician. If I have not misunderstood Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, by using [...]



Computer Industry in Pakistan

By Sumaira Bajwa • Feb 22nd, 2009 • Category: Misc

In any country, the first step in the automation is to build the hardware infrastructure and provision of cheaper modern computer machine is the first pillar and step of this project. In Pakistan, there is no shortage of talent and the will of the people of to learn and compete in the market.
The whole of [...]



A New World Order

By Rakesh S. Mani • Jan 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

IT is clear that we face unprecedented times. Unprecedented because there is no direct precedent, no past for what we see. The world is totally oriented towards the future. And whoever still dwells in the past doesn’t understand the future because the past is of full of prejudices, of commitments. It arrests us.
Today, the extent [...]



IT Education at Allama Iqbal Open University Campuses

By Rohail Butt • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is a unique example of distributed education. Having adorned it with such a fantastic emblem, it is time to unveil this in-efficient low-quality monster. The article is not meant to discuss how AIOU operates or how it strives *hard* to remotely educate people, but to present forth my own observations, [...]



Information Technology and Service Management - Part 1

By Ausaf Ahmad • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

This is first of the series which I am discussing on IT AND SERVICE MANAGEMENTWhat is Service?“A service is a mean of delivering values to customers by facilitating outcomes that they want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risks”Now few things comes up in your mind by reading the above definition is [...]



Height of IT in Pakistan

By The Pakistani Spectator • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Courtesy : Rizwan Younas



The Power of Perception & IT

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

IT still has a perception problem. In some organizations, we continue to be seen as geeks that play with expensive toys. Sure, these toys power the business, but their necessity is often not indicated in a way that’s “business friendly.”Reality and perception are very different animals. Well-chosen words and a positive demeanor [...]



An outage: Lessons learned

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I was going through the series of articles on TechRepublic , I found this article which will be helpful for us in our current working environment too and we can adapt those some of tips which is giving in the article to prepare ourselves……………..

Westminster College does not currently have a backup generator protecting its data [...]



MS vs. open source: Are Both of them SECURE

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I already know that you’re going to hate what I have to say. You’ll no doubt send me strongly worded e-mails and post critical comments which is fine by me . Everyone has its view point and I respect it.When you read about the security problems of some open-source applications and operating systems, some of [...]



Challenges in IT Industry of Pakistan

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

Pakistan and its Industry… hmmmmm… Pakistan being the sixth populated nation but on the education wise we are really far behind from the other countries of our region. As I was going through the article on the Internet I get to know that Pakistan has lagged dangerously behind other regional countries in
exploiting Information Technology as [...]