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eHAP Meeting Held at National ICT R&D Fund
A meeting was held between management of National ICT R&D
Fund and members of the board of eHealth Association of Pakistan (eHAP)
on February 8th, 2012 at the office of the Fund..
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Board of Directors of
the National ICT R&D Fund Approves Transfer of IPR of
Technical R&D Projects to the Funded Entities
The Board of Directors of the National ICT R&D Fund approved
the policy for transferring of Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) of its technical R&D projects to the funded entities
in its last meeting..
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Prime Minister’s National ICT Scholarship Program Students Win USAID Scholarship
It is a matter of great honour for National ICT R&D Fund
that three PM National ICT Scholars, studying at COMSATS,
Lahore have been selected for participation in the Global
Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD-Pakistan)
spring 2012 semester..
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National ICT R&D Fund, Funded Project Clinched Gold Medal at APICTA 2011 – Pattaya, Thiland
National ICT R&D Fund, funded project, titled “Arrhythmia and Sudden Death Syndrome Detection Hybrid Network Based Telemedicine System” clinched Gold medal in the e-health category at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) 2011..
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National ICT R&D Fund Sponsors Prime Minister’s Entrepreneurial Challenge
National ICT R&D Fund sponsored the prize distribution
ceremony on October 17, 2011. The ceremony was graced by H.E.
Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, Prime Minister of Pakistan..
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National ICT R&D Fund Disburses Student Kits
National ICT R&D Fund
held a simple ceremony to distribute 710 student kits among
three charitable organizations..
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National ICT R&D Fund Sponsors & Participates in P@SHA ICT Awards 2011
National ICT R&D Fund sponsored P@SHA ICT Awards 2011. Most
creative minds from ICT industries and academia attended the
award distribution ceremony hosted by the Pakistan Software
Houses Association for IT and ITES (PASHA)..
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Dr. Syed Aun Abbas Joins National ICT R&D Fund as CEO
National ICT R&D Fund is pleased to announce that Dr. Syed
Aun Abbas has joined the Fund as its CEO..
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National ICT R&D Fund signs agreement with the Virtual University of Pakistan
National ICT R&D Fund has signed an agreement with the
Virtual University of Pakistan to fund the project titled
“Establishment of Virtual Campuses in Pakistan”...
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International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2011)
National ICT R&D Fund co-sponsored the two-day International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2011) hosted by NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science..
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Efforts Of National ICT R&D for Promoting IT Sector and Developing Industrial and Academic
Resources Lauded by VC IUB
The Vice Chancellor the Islamia University of Bahawalpur has appreciated the efforts of National ICT R&D Fund for promoting IT sector and developing industrial and academic resources in the country..
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International Workshop on Healthcare in the 21st Century: Importance of Interoperability
The mandate of this workshop is to focus on practical needs
of the healthcare industry and to address the challenges of
interoperability and integration in health systems. HL7 can
play a key role to bridge the gap of connectivity that
exists in the present health systems and can provide better
infrastructure for constructing future health systems..
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National ICT R&D Fund Sponsors ICT-COMPPEC 2011
NUST
College of Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (EME) is
holding 10th Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer
Sciences Projects Exhibition and Competition.
National ICT R&D Fund has collaborated with the EME College
to add more objectivity to the competition..
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Top Performing National ICT Scholars Awarded Merit Certificates
On the occasion of World Telecom and Information Society Day (WTISD) 2011 some of the top performing National ICT Scholars hailing from all provinces of the country were awarded merit certificates.
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National ICT R&D Fund Sponsors Connect 2011 - 6th Information and Communications
Technology Exhibition & Conference
National ICT R&D Fund sponsored the 6th Connect Conference
at Karachi Expo Center between 3rd – 5th May as R&D Sponsor.
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e-Health Conference - January 22-23, 2011
The conference is being organized by the eHealth Association
of Pakistan (eHAP) at the International Islamic University
Islamabad. Over 300 national and international delegates
will visit the conference.
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Conference on Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CCIE) 2010
MIT Enterprise Forum of Pakistan (MITEFP) is conducting a Conference on Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CCIE) 2010..
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NUST Achieves HL7 Affiliate Status
NUST in partnership with National ICT R&D Fund has achieved HL7 Affiliate Status for Pakistan..
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Ministry of IT Donates Educational Material to Edhi Trust, SoS Children’s Village and Anjuman
Faizul-Islam”
National ICT R&D Fund has donated over 1500 kits; each comprising of a carrying case, two notebooks and pens..
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Closing Ceremony of Field Testing of Key Component of Funded Project “Adaptive English
Language Teaching Tools”
The closing ceremony of one of the key deliverables of funded project titled “Adaptive English Language Teaching Tools” was arranged by FAST-NU Lahore at Comprehensive High School for Girls, Lahore.
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Remote Patient Monitoring System (RPMS) Wins First Prize at COMPPEC 2010
A project funded by National ICT R&D Fund won the first
prize, in the Research Category, at 9th All Pakistan Inter
Colleges/Universities Computer Project Exhibition &
Competition (COMPPEC 2010)..
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Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC) wins Accolades for Pakistan at
the Top Antivirus Industry Conference (VB 2010)
It is a matter of great pride for National ICT R&D Fund, the
research team and the country at large that a research paper
titled "Be liberal in what you receive on your mobile
phone", by two research engineers..
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NICTRDF funded project generates 6 papers at various International Conferences Worldwide
Funded project of National ICT R&D Fund titled “Remote Patient Monitoring System with Focus on Antenatal Care for Rural Population” has generated six papers at various International Conferences in a time span of 19 months.
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MOU Signing Ceremony between nexGIN RC (NUCES) and Sehat First (Pvt) Limited
An MoU has been inked between NUCES research center nexGIN
RC and Sehat First (Pvt) Limited with the objective to
develop an intelligent Clinical Decision Support System in
collaboration with Sehat First.
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National ICT R&D Fund sponsors first e-health conference by eHAP
eHealth Association Pakistan (eHAP) organized the first international e-Health conference at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. National ICT R&D Fund was the Gold Sponsor for this conference held by eHealth Association of Pakistan.
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Funded project "Integration of Open Source Software Projects in IT Education" recognized for its
contribution at Orange HRM Blog |
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Pakistan Submits HL7 Affiliate Membership Application
Pakistan successfully submitted HL7 affiliation application to HL 7 headquarters in USA in its Working Group meeting in January 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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National ICT R&D Fund sponsors Dareecha Prize Distribution Ceremony
The closing ceremony of “Dareecha” project was arranged by
Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP) at
FAST-NU Lahore. National ICT R&D Fund sponsored this
ceremony by providing the cash prizes.
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Seminar on “Commercialization of Ideas” at National University of Science & Technology
A seminar was arranged by School of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science at National University of Science and
Technology, Islamabad on the need to channel R&D output into
successful commercial yield.
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Participation in Third International Conference on Open Source Systems & Technologies (ICOSST 2009)
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology (UET),
Lahore in collaboration with IEEE USA organized third
International Conference on “Open-Source Systems &
Technologies” at Lahore.
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National ICT R&D Fund sponsors Conference on Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship
The Conference on Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CCIE)
2009 was held in Karachi. National ICT R&D Fund was a
gold sponsor for this event held by MIT Enterprise Forum of
Pakistan.
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Health life Horizon completes its First Year
National ICT
R&D Fund congratulates the team of Health Life Horizon at
NUST-SEECS for successfully completing its first year. This
fully funded project by National ICT R&D Fund worth Rs.14.12
million aims to carry out research in healthcare by
developing HL7 based software framework with the objective
to facilitate e-health services.
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MoU between Buraq Integrated Solutions
& School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
A MoU has been inked between Buraq
Integrated Solutions and School of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science (NUST) for the establishment of Center of Excellence for the research and development of Industrial Automation at the campus of SEECS-NUST.
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Two Funded Projects of National ICT R&D Fund Receive P@SHA Awards 2009
Two funded projects of National ICT R&D Fund have once again been awarded at the prestigious Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) ICT Awards 2009.
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Interview of CEO, National ICT R&D Fund by STEP
Building an ICT R&D Eco-System in Pakistan: A Conversation with Dr. Qasim Sheikh (Part 1-of-2).
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Interview of CEO, National ICT R&D Fund by In the Line of Wire
Ms. Jehan Ara, President P@SHA, speaks to Dr. Qasim Sheikh
about the Fund and the work it has achieved.
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Silver Sponsorship for P@SHA ICT Awards 2009
P@SHA is holding its 6th National Annual ICT Awards event on October 14, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. National ICT R&D Fund is the Silver Sponsor for this year’s P@SHA ICT Awards.
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SEECS-NUST Organizes Special Classes to Facilitate Students of Rural Area Background
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), NUST held the closing ceremony of the three week course of Communication skills in English language for National ICT Scholarship award holders.
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ITCN Asia Conference and Exhibition 2009
National ICT R&D Fund actively participated in the 9th ITCN Asia Conference and Exhibition. 9th ITCN Asia was inaugurated by Federal
Secretary of IT & Telecom, Mr. Naguibullah Malik along with President PTCL, Mr. Walid Irshaid and other local and foreign delegates.
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MoU Signing Ceremony between FAST-NU and Phonecast (Pvt) Ltd. to Provide Industrial Expertise to Develop Remote Patient Monitoring System with focus on Antenatal Care
An
MoU has been inked between National University of Computer
and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) research
center nexGIN RC, and Phonecast (Pvt) Ltd (CallDoc) with the
aspiration to collaborate for providing accumulated industrial
expertise in order to develop Remote Patient Monitoring
System with focus on Antenatal Care..
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A Milestone for Security Research in Pakistan
A research paper titled “On Achieving Good Operating Points
on an ROC Plane using Stochastic Anomaly Score Prediction”,
authored by Muhammad Qasim Ali, Hassan Khan, Ali Sajjad and
Syed Ali Khayam of Wireless and Secure Networks (WiSNet)
Research Lab at SEECS, has been accepted in the prestigious
ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS)
2009.
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Exceptional Honor for Pakistan at Bio-inspired Computing Forum of GECCO 2009
Two Pakistani papers won the Silver medal in “Humies
Competition” at “Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference 2009” (GECCO), Quebec, Canada. GECCO 2009
Conference is the world’s best forum for Bio-inspired
computing and is one of the largest in Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation.
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MoU Signing Ceremony between National ICT R&D Fund, FAST-NU and CureMD
A Memorandum of Understanding has been inked between National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES)
Research Center nexGIN RC, CureMD and National ICT R&D Fund with the aspiration to collaborate for providing accumulated industrial expertise in order to develop an intelligent Clinical Decision Support System.
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A Team of Pakistani Researchers Brings Laurels to the Country
A dedicated team of researchers at Next Generation
Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGinRC) at FAST-NU
has brought a unique laurel to the country by having two
research papers accepted at the 12th
International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion
Detection...
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Pakistani Students accepted at Google Summer of Code Global Program
A team
of students at Software Engineering Research Centre (SERC)
FAST-NU, Lahore submitted a proposal in the domain of MySQL
which was accepted at Google Summer of Code to incorporate
"Change Tracking/Synchronization" functionality for
phpMyAdmin.
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GUNI recognizes Pakistani IT
Education Project
Global
University Network for Innovation (GUNI) recently
acknowledged a Pakistani project titled “Integration of Open
Source Software Projects in IT Education” as an innovative
integration of open source projects in software engineering...
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NICTRDF funded project wins at World Summit Youth Award
NICTRDF is
pleased to announce that one of its funded projects “Remote Patient Monitoring System with focus on Antenatal care for rural Population” is among the three winners at the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) from a total of 612 projects submitted from 102 countries...
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Symposium on “Research and Development
Funding Opportunities for Software Houses and other Stakeholders”
Karachi: National ICT R&D Fund organised
a symposium on “Research & Development Funding Opportunities
for Software Houses” at Karachi. The attendees included the top..
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Symposium on “Research and Development
Funding Opportunities for ICT Industry and other Stakeholders”
Islamabad: A
symposium was held for industry representatives and academicians stressing the need for conceiving innovative ideas and developing proposals in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.
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Deadly Conficker Detected by a Pakistani "zero-day" Anti-malware Product
A computer malware, named as
Kido, Conficker or Downadup has penetrated into more than 3.9
million computer systems worldwide. A team of security
researchers in Pakistan have been
working on a next-generation anti-malware solution.
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Excerpt of NICTRDF Funded Project Receives Best Paper Award in India
National ICT R&D Fund is pleased to announce that a research
paper from one of its funded project “A Bio-inspired Self
Defending Security framework for IP Multimedia subsystem (IMS)”
has received the Best Paper Award at the 2nd
International Conference on Internet Multimedia Services and
Applications held in Bangalore, India.
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Excerpt of NICTRDF Funded Project Presented in the US
Dr. Masoom Alam of Institute of Management Sciences,
Peshawar attended the 15th Annual ACM Computer
and Communications Security Conference in USA and presented
a paper on 'Remote
Attestation in a web services enabled environment'.
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P@SHA Awards Two Projects Funded by NICTRDF
National ICT R&D Fund is pleased to announce that two of its funded projects have been awarded as the
“Best of Research and Development” and “Best of Tertiary Student Project” by Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA).
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Launch Ceremony of
Campus Career Portal
In an
exclusive launch ceremony, ROZEE.PK launched Online Campus
Portals for the leading universities of Pakistan. The
project is funded by National ICT R&D Fund.
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Another
Milestone Achievement: Closing
Ceremony of Outreach Scholarship Program 2007
A closing ceremony of
Outreach Scholarship Program 2007 to acknowledge the
milestone achieved by the Ministry of Information technology
through National ICT R&D Fund was organized at PM
Secretariat.
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MoU
between National ICT R&D Fund and Microsoft Pakistan
A Memorandum of Understanding has
been inked between National ICT R&D Fund and Microsoft
Pakistan.
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