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Open House 2013 at FAST-NU Islamabad Campus
An Open House / Job Fair is an event where a number of employers and job seekers come together for the purpose of applying and interviewing for jobs. National ICT R&D Fund has recently launched a new initiative under ...  Read More

 

Prime Minister Inaugurates the ICT Block at Islamia University Bahawalpur
Bahawalpur, March 15: Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani while gracing the 5th Convocation of Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) as chief guest announced the construction of ICT Block at the university besides ..  Learn More
 

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..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

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..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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)..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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”...  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

Conference on Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CCIE) 2010
MIT Enterprise Forum of Pakistan (MITEFP) is conducting a Conference on Corporate Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CCIE) 2010..  Learn More

 

NUST Achieves HL7 Affiliate Status
NUST in partnership with National ICT R&D Fund has achieved HL7 Affiliate Status for Pakistan..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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)..  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

Funded project "Integration of Open Source Software Projects in IT Education" recognized for its
      contribution at Orange HRM Blog

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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).  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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...  Learn More

 

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 Learn More

 

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...  Learn More

 

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...  Learn More

 

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..  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 

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 Learn More

 

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 Learn More

 

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'.  Learn More

 

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).  Learn More

 

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.  Learn More

 
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.  Learn More
 

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 Learn More

 
   
 
 
 
 

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