Young talent key to ICT development
The information and communication technologies (ICT) has recorded a steep growth during the last couple of years, and the operators and solution providers are taking effective initiatives by encouraging the young talent and the PTA would continue patronizing these steps in future too.
“It is encouraging to note that operators and solution providers are in close coordination for the promotion of ICT in Pakistan. We wantPakistan to flourish as a strong and established state especially in the field of ICT,” said Chairman Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) Dr. Muhammad Yasin during the Ericsson-PTA Mobile Excellence Award giving ceremony held here last week.
“ICT introduction throughout the country is our aim. We need to encourage students in developing mobile applications and solutions as it would help the country emerge as an ICT state in the world,” he maintained.
The award was conferred on the winning team for their exemplary efforts in developing an SMS SPAM Interceptor application.
Ewa Björling, Minister of Trade of Sweden, a high-level Swedish business delegation, PTA Chairman Dr. Mohammed Yaseen, President Ericsson Pakistan Mohsen Tavakol and senior management of Ericsson attended the ceremony.
The PTA Chairman said that the Authority believes in harmonized efforts for the uplift of ICT industry in the country as we look forward to carrying out significant projects in partnership with the operators and solution providers in the future as well.
He appreciated the initiative of the Mobile Excellence Award 2010 saying it would play a significant role to bridge the gap between industry, academia and the regulator.
During the ceremony Mohsen Tavakol, President Ericsson Pakistan, said,
“We are proud of giving award to the winners for their innovation and creativity in an application which aims to intercept SMS at the access layer by using an underlying byte-level data coding scheme.
He further announced that the winner of the Mobile Excellence Award will also be given an opportunity to qualified practice through internship at Ericsson for a period of 6 months from the time of graduation.
He pledged that they would continue working hard to build long-term relationships with universities and student organizations around the world and is attracting young talent who eventually contribute to our future success. Muhammad Bilal Junaid and Talha Shabib Ahmed, final-year students of BS (Telecom) at FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, were declared winners of the Award, while runner up award was given to a two-member team of students, Basit Hameed and Imran Tanveer, from NUST School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS). The application they developed is an Android-based application for the Open EMR (Electronic Medical Records) system. It is intended to empower doctors sitting in rural areas in maintaining patients’ record through their mobiles.
The Ericsson-PTA Mobile Excellence Award 2010 was launched in September 2010 to honour students who have developed the most innovative user generated or professionally produced content that engages the mobile user and enhances the traditional mobile content experience.
