NdcTech exhibited its offerings at ITCN Asia, one of the biggest IT conferences in Pakistan
NdcTech, a wholly owned subsidiary of Systems Limited and one of the fastest-growing consulting companies exhibited its offerings at ITCN Asia, one of the biggest IT conferences in Pakistan. The company’s experts shared insights on how NdcTech is building banks of the future by accelerating their mission-critical digital transformations. While addressing the audience at ITCN…
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Pakistan to host APICTA awards 2022 for first time in over 20 years
The Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) and Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) announced that Pakistan will be officially hosting the APICTA Awards this year for the first time. Hosted by PA@SHA, the APICTA Executive Committee meeting with delegates from 16 member economies including Malaysia, Australia, Sri Lanka, and Chinese Taipei was held in Serena Hotel, Islamabad….
Unbridled social media ruining moral values
Over the centuries human being discovered numerous equipments, machines and technologies to ease out hardships in dispensation of tasks in different arena of life. Besides many other inventions, if the revolutionary invention of wheel paved way for effective and accelerated functioning of machines, the discovery of ‘Chip’ is described as another milestone in the area…
META affirms stringent approach to user privacy in virtual session with Pakistan media
Meta – the parent company of Facebook and Instagram organized a virtual briefing session on its approach to privacy for Pakistani journalists in Islamabad. Arianne Jimenez, Privacy Policy Manager at Meta in the Asia Pacific apprised the reporters about the company’s policies to protect user data and information safety on its platforms. The program was…
Pakistani freelancers attract export remittances of nearly $400 million in FY22
Pakistani freelancers attracted export remittances of nearly $400 million in the closing financial year 2021-2022 by providing various services online to foreign clients in different countries. According to the official data released by the Ministry of IT and Telecommunication (MoITT), the remittances inflows in the closing financial year stood at $397.328 million as compared to…
PTA renews CMPak license in AJK & GB
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has renewed the cellular mobile license of CMPak (Zong) for Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) to continue/expand its next generation mobile services (NGMS) in the region. PTA has received 50% of the total prescribed license renewal fee of USD 17.5 million i.e Rs 1.87 Billion (equivalent to USD 8.76…
PTA, A4A1 workshop underscores importance of Gender Inclusion in ICTs
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in collaboration with Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) on Thursday organised a Digital Gender Sensitization workshop that focused on gender inclusion in ICTs and facilitating digital empowerment of women in Pakistan. Additional Secretary (Incharge) IT&T Mohsin Mushtaq was the chief guest on this occasion whereas Chairman PTA, Major General (R)…
Ministry of Federal Education & Professional Training signs contract with PTCL to run 04 educational channels on PTCL Smart TV App
Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training (MoFEPT) and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) signed an agreement for the provision of 04 educational OTT channels in order to deliver educational content to students across the country, at a ceremony in Islamabad on Thursday. The channels will boost accessibility to quality educational content to foster learning…
MoIB exposes fake campaign on social media about Independence Day ceremony
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB) on Monday termed the social media post which claimed that a woman danced during Independence Day event. A tweet from facts checker MoIB twitter account stated that disseminating fake news was not only unethical and illegal but it was also disservice to the nation. The tweet further said it…
PTCL, Nokia successfully trial 1-Terabit Live Optical Network
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has successfully conducted country’s first trial of 1-Terabit transport capacity per wavelength, in collaboration with Nokia. The trial was conducted in a live network environment, where PTCL Metro Transport Network was upgraded to 1-Terabit per channel, extending its capacity to extreme speeds of 32-Terabit per fiber. The trial was based…