National ICT R&D Fund sponsors Conference on Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Lahore, November 22, 2009: Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore in collaboration with IEEE USA organized third International Conference on “Open-Source Systems & Technologies” (ICOSST 2009) from 19-22 December 2009 at KICS-UET, Lahore.

Open Source Software Engineering has emerged as a cross-disciplinary paradigm for distributed enterprise computing. ICOSST 2009 provided a scientific platform for researchers and practitioners who shared their ideas and experiences related to the state-of-the-art and the future of open-source software for tackling research and development challenges and open-source development environments for critical applications.

The closing day of the conference was honored with the addresses of Dr. Waqar Mehmood, Director KICS and Lt. General (R) Muhammad Akram, Vice Chancellor, UET, Lahore. Dr. Qasim Sheikh, CEO National ICT R&D Fund was the chief guest at the closing session on the last day of the conference.

Researchers and practitioners of Open Source Software from academia, industry, and public administration presented their research papers and tutorials addressing critical areas such as E-Business, E-Government, Telecommunication, Enterprise Security, Healthcare, Higher Education and Research, Enterprise Resource Planning, and Educational Institution Management and Administration.

The main objectives of this conference were:

1. Development of open-source stand-alone software tools, toolsets, and IDEs for critical, complex, and robust enterprise information systems.

2. Development of case tools like modeling editors, build automation, continuous integration , logging, debugging, tracing, performance, code generators, document generators, installers, search, rule engines, databases, and presentation.

A special combined session was arranged for research and development projects funded by National ICT R&D Fund working in the field of Open Source Software development. Five R&D projects funded by National ICT R&D Fund were showcased in this special session. These projects from the field of e-health, e-education, and 4G telecom infrastructure and network security system were highly appreciated for their thorough and concrete research work.

National ICT R&D Fund was well acknowledged for its significant commitment and its contribution in the field of Information and Communication Technology. National ICT R&D Fund (Ministry of IT & Telecom) remains committed to facilitate high-quality ICT initiatives by providing funding opportunities.