It is staggering to see infants or toddlers to be precise using cell phones in more or less in every family globally. Parents are at times flabbergasted observing their kids using technology far better than them. Rather, parents seek knowledge from their kids regarding the use of information technology. Teenagers teach the use of technology to their parents almost everywhere. One may be astonished to see how these kids have …
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Industrialization Revolutions resulting from technological innovations have transformed the world many folds. The first, second and third industrial revolutions focused only social living but fourth industrial revolution is there to revolutionize fundamentally our way to live, work and our relationships. This is going to intermingle our physical, geographical, digital and biological boundaries. The fourth revolution will evolve with exponential rather than linear path. There is going to be unending realm …
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Foreign direct investment in telecom The telecom sector has been a star performer lately when it comes to foreign direct investment. The sudden rise in telecom FDI this fiscal, however, owes mainly to the license renewal. Telecom companies have made partial payments to renew their right to operate in Pakistan. The government, meanwhile, pocketed valuable non-tax revenues to meet IMF targets. There have been rounds of inflows and outflows in …
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One of the key policy objectives of Digital Pakistan Policy is promotion of innovation, entrepreneurship and incubators/start-ups in IT sector through: Generation of sustainable innovation, entrepreneurship and employment opportunities for the country’s rapidly growing technology savvy and entrepreneurial youth. Conducting digital skills programs for the human resource development in current and emerging technology domains. Collaboration with international partners to boost innovation. Setting up venture capital funds to hold national level …
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Balochistan is largely an untapped telecom market with the lowest number of mobile phone users. In 2018, a dozen telecom projects were launched to deploy telecom network and services in the province. Today, the telecom operators are set to unleash the potential of the province with 46 percent of the 12.3 million population has no access to either mobile, wireless or a fixed line network. Universal Service Fund (USF), an …
Read More »There are two contrary opinions about Pakistanis being Information technology savvy: 1) Pakistan has reasonable percentage of technology savvy people and 2) the level of IT education is far from satisfactory. Some experts say both the opinions are valid and it depends on the segment of population anyone is trying to explore. However, the split between urban and rural areas continue to have impacts. They say a lot depends …
Read More »With the current growing pace of telecommunication, the telecom sector of our country has witnessed a spectacular growth in the recent past. This advancement and growth in the sector is also having positive impact on the underdeveloped economy and most backward society of Balochistan, which despite least developed province of the country, enjoying satisfactory growth level of telecom consumers and the quality of telecom services provided to them are …
Read More »Worldwide IT spending has grown every year since 2005 and it was projected to increase further this year as it was raised last year. Of the US$3,673 billion spent on IT during 2013, US$922 billion was spent in the IT services industry and US$300 billion was spent on enterprise software. However, the enterprise software industry is predicted to increase more with revenue predicted to hit US$344 billion by 2015. …
Read More »It’s a great time for Cloud in Pakistan; firms must see security and capabilities before having a service Interview with Mr Waqas Hashmi – Oracle Country Sales Director for Pakistan & Afghanistan Mr. Waqas Hashmi is a Country Sales Director for Pakistan and Afghanistan at Oracle. In a chit chat, he shed some light on a key technology driver, namely cloud computing, and in particular Cloud Platform services. On …
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