The chairman of P@SHA that stands for Pakistan Association of Software Houses  emphasized on the importance of the right use of ICT resources. He quoted that the  ratio of employed ICT graduates  is merely 15-20% today.

Naseer A. Khan recently attended “Technology: A Tool to Convert Potential into Opportunity”. The ceremony was held in Royal Palm Golf and Country Club in Lahore. The aim of the ceremony was to highlight the importance of technology and find new opportunities that could open the door to a new world.

The event was graced by dignified personalities from the field of technology.

During his address he said,

“The importance of utilizing big data is now being understood and companies are taking active measures to deploy this technology into their advantage.”

He also quoted a fact that  originally came from Big Data that Adding that if employed in decision making can’ do wonders.

He added,

“As much as 73% of the international organizations has either already invested into Big Data or they are planning to do so in the near future.”

Talking about less enrolment he further said,

“The curricula as followed in technology institutes of Pakistan has already been outdated and it needs to be revised and improved to the needs of today’s industry.”

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The Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA) is finally open and is inviting nominations for its 14th P@SHA ICT Awards.

P@SHA ICT Awards are  successfully completing their 14 years. The aim of the awards is to provide recognition to the software and service applications developing companies of Pakistan.

They aim to do so by giving them  opportunity to gain local, regional/ international exposure; acknowledging creativity, innovation and excellence in Pakistan’s Information and Communications Technologies sector.

The winners at these awards will further be  selected for Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards. There they will compete with the best 17 teams from various companies to make their mark.

About 17 product categories and 15 service categories are introduces this year for the nominations. One company can send nomination for multiple categories.

How to Apply for ICT Awards 2017

Those interested in submitting their entries, can follow the guidelines given below:

1: Visit www.pashaictawards.com and download the category nomination form you want to compete in.

2: Furnish the details as listed in the application form.

3: Send the filled application form to awards@pasha.org.pk

4: P@SHA will not accept entries on flash drives/ CDs/ DVDs etc. All supporting content including videos must be uploaded on any freely accessible video sharing website like Vimeo or YouTube. You will need to provide links to this content with your application, not the original files.

P@SHA staff is available 24/7 to entertain your queries.

The due date for submission of nominees is 15th August 2017.

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There are two things one wants more than money, one is reorganization other is praise.

This quote goes with the aim of APICTA perfectly .It is an international Awards (Asia Pacific ICT Awards) Program to honor the ICT works of brilliant minds, working for more than a decade and half it provides an opportunity to network with the like-minded people as delegates from countries across the Asia-Pacific region take part in the competition. To represent Pakistan, this year a delegation of 41 people was taken to the international arena set in Taipei by Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA). The team included the entities that were declared winners or runners up at the P@SHA ICT Awards 2016.

Taipei (Taiwan) was the venue for 16^th annual wards of APICTA. It was recently conducted and the good news here is that Pakistan managed to bag 3 Gold Medals and 6 Silver Medals.

Teams who won Gold Medal from Pakistan

• A team from NUST won Gold in Tertiary Student Projects for their project “Clinical Decision Support System for Diagnosis of Movement Disorders”.
• A team from NUST also won a gold award, for its project, “Analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography Image for CDSS”.
• Wonder Tree won the Gold for Inclusion and Community.

Teams/People who bagged Silvers from Pakistan

• UBL Fund Managers
• Mandi Express
• Sionser
• Trillium Information Systems
• Amin Farid
• Nadia of Sheops

The choice was tough as there were 17 countries competing for the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. These proved to be great success for Pakistan. The delegates were from countries like Bangladesh, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Australia and many more.

It is a huge success for the teams and the country. We are proud of our winners and congratulate them.

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