News
- Video of my two-part interview for CIO on entrepreneurship in Pakistan: Part
I
Part
II
- Pakistan's largest English newspaper Dawn has published an article
on
our incubator -- Saif
Center of Innovation (SCI) -- and our citizen
journalism startup See`n`Report
.
- Our work on Grassroots technologies received the
MIT Global Indus Technovator Award!
- Prof. Richard Anderson and his team has made a video
of the
collaborative course between UW (Seattle), Microsoft Research (Redmond)
and LUMS, Pakistan.
- Two of my startups -- ChOpaal.pk
and SeeNreport.com
-- won the Annual
ICT PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association)
Awards, 2008 and were shortlisted to represent Pakistan in
the
Asia Pacific ICT Awards
(APICTA'08) in Jakarta.
- I was awarded the CIO IDG
Technology Pioneer Award . The
inaugural CIO awards were given to those who helped shape the Pakistan
software industry in the last 10 years. Given that I was still an
undergrad 10 years ago, I am humbled by the recognition of our recent
entrepreneurial activities (BumpIn.com,
ChOpaal.pk
and SeeNreport.com
)
- My
dream startup incubator is finally online in Lahore! My three
startups -- BumpIn.com,
ChOpaal.pk
and SeeNreport.com
-- become the first citizens of
S.C.I.
- Our
research on
Goal-oriented
adaptive systems received the Mark Weiser Award at
IEEE
Percom'08. Watch videos of our two goal-oriented systems: Goal-oriented
Sockets [Follow-Me-Video]
and Goal-oriented Programming System
[Adaptive
Teleconference].
- Our
Poor Man's broadband
system
for the developing-world was featured in the New
Scientist and the MIT
Technology Review. Our paper
was
selected to appear in a compendium of
best papers from ICTD'07 in a special issue of the ITID
Journal.
- Our
collaboration with UC
Berkeley's TIER group received funding from NAS/US State Department
and
HEC. We will be working on Rural WiFi and inverse-multiplexed GPRS
Networks, Developing-world "Teleputer" and Poor Man's Akamai with Eric
Brewer's group. Check out
the Dritte
pages for updates.
- Our
three-way course on "Computing
for the Developing-world" with
University of
Washington and Microsoft Research was broadcast live
between three sites. 20 odd
students attend the course from LUMS (at 6AM Pakistan time). We learned
many interesting lessons in using technology for International
Distance Education (published in 13th CSCWD conference).
- Our
collaborative project with MIT
on Disease Epidemiology
in Pakistan
received funding from PITB. We will be focusing on TB and Malaria in
Punjab.
- Poor Man's Broadband received funding from the Microsoft Research (MSR) Digital Inclusion Program. This is the first time MSR has funded a research project in Pakistan.
