H3C Launches Channel Kickoff 2021 in Pakistan, Promoting a Win-Win Partner Ecosystem

H3C, a leader in digital solutions has initiated its second virtual event of the year in Pakistan — H3C Channel Kickoff 2021, Moving your business forward. The virtual event encourages global partners to “Move their business forward” by embracing new challenges and seizing opportunities alike, to jointly create more business value with H3C in the new year and beyond. In Pakistan, H3C has successfully certified more than 30 partners and over 60 engineers, and representatives of local partners and industry customers joined the virtual event.

“Since its official entry into the Pakistani market in 2019, H3C has been paving the way to support local customers in accelerating their digital transformation. We have made significant investments in the development of the local partner ecosystem, staff team and service system. Thanks to this, we have received increasing support from our partners,” said Davis Hui, the Head of H3C Global Channel Management.

“In addition to the latest products and solutions, H3C will continue to provide Pakistani customers with advanced ICT experiences building on our wealth of accumulated knowledge across various industries. H3C will also promote ecologically favorable policies, support local business partners to successfully complete digital transformation in the digital age, and leverage the power of digital to enhance inclusiveness.”

During the virtual event, H3C hosted the 2020 Partners Awards to recognize the important contributions of its Pakistan partners over the past year. Six of H3C’s Pakistani partners received the Top Sales Elite Award, Industrial Market Development Award, Solution Sales Elite Award, Top Service Sales and Delivery Award, and lastly, the Best Collaboration Award.

At the awarding ceremony, representative of the award winners said that, “It is a great honor to receive this award from H3C. H3C has a full portfolio of digital infrastructure products as well as a comprehensive one-stop digital platform in ICT field. H3C, relying on its high-quality products and professional team, has won the trust of an increasing number of customers across various industries here in Pakistan. We firmly believe that H3C will achieve greater success in the digital future, and we will also develop closer cooperation with H3C.”

H3C also shared its Digital Brain Project 2020 in Pakistan, demonstrating the leading capabilities of its “AI in ALL” intelligence strategy. The strategy aims to develop innovative smart applications with ecosystem partners and build digital brains for customers in their respective domains. It relies on Smart Digital Platforms composed of Digital Infrastructure, Business Empowerment Platforms, Active Security, and Unified O&M Services.

For the Pakistani market, H3C launched a Cloud-based management platform, Cloudnet, which will make it easier to manage H3C Wireless Lan (WLAN) devices, switches and routers. H3C also provides Blade server B16000, designed for fast-growing enterprises with the combination of powerful performance, added flexibility, unified management, and greater reduction of total cost of ownership (TCO). For small and medium-sized enterprises in Pakistan, H3C provides the latest generation version of UIS (Unified Infrastructure System) 7.0 with 4 new engines and 3 types of hardware, which combines almost all important elements in the data center, namely computing, storage, network, security, O&M and cloud, into a single box.

H3C Channel Kickoff 2021 is also scheduled to take place in additional markets such as Russia and Turkey, among others. The initiative embraces the power of digitalization with customers and partners worldwide, promoting the development of the entire ecosystem. In the future, H3C will further develop and expand its ICT ecosystem, including increasing support and capacity for overseas partners, working together to provide customers with more options, and contributing to the prosperity and development of the global digital economy.

About H3C

H3C is an industry leader in the provision of Digital Solutions and is committed to becoming the most trusted partner to the customers in their quest for business innovation and digital transformation. H3C offers a full portfolio of Digital Infrastructure products, spanning across compute, storage, networking, security and related domains, and provides a comprehensive one-stop digital platform that includes cloud computing, big data, interconnectivity, information security, new safety, Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G solutions, as well as end-to-end technical services.

For more information about H3C, please visit http://www.h3c.com/en/

Raast: Pakistan’s first instant payment system

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday launched the country’s first instant payment system—Raast—to enable end-to-end digital payments among individuals, businesses and government entities instantaneously.

Addressing the ceremony, the Prime Minister termed the launch a major step forward by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) towards “Digital Pakistan”, adding it would help include the low income groups and make them part of the mainstream economy. He was optimist that it would go a long way in fighting poverty, particularly in rural areas.

Raast is part of Prime Minister Khan’s “Digital Pakistan” vision to include poor segments of society in formal economy. The faster payment system will be used not only to settle small-value retail payments in real time but will also provide cheap and universal access to all players in the financial industry, including banks and fin-techs.

Khan said the instant payment system would not only document the economy, but would also generate more taxes to help build the country.He regretted that only two million people in the country of 220 million used to pay taxes, which was not enough to build hospitals and schools, and provide other basic facilities of life to the common man. Only 3,000 of the tax payers paid 70 per cent of the tax, he added.

The Prime Minister said foreign remittances had been constantly on the rise for the past five months, and had helped stabilise the rupee. After a gap of 17 years, the country’s current account had gone into surplus, lowering pressure on the rupee and playing a key role in strengthening the national economy, he added.

Khan said with increase in revenue collection, the government would create extra space for spending on the human development—education, health and clean drinking water.

He said Pakistan was among the top countries with the highest growth rate in the region, but today it was left behind. He hoped a move towards “Digital Pakistan” would help put the country back on track.

He said the people in Pakistan were used to cash economy, however, now it was time to move forward, adding the programme would help give a boost to the Ehsaas Programme, particularly its mobile wallet, and extend its reach to the women in rural areas.

Khan said his government was working for the empowerment of rural womenfolk by including them in various economic activities.He extended gratitude to Queen Maxima of the Netherlands as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank for the launch of the programme.

Queen Maxima appreciated Pakistan on the launch of the instant payment system as well as for effective strategy to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, and the Ehsaas Programme for women empowerment.

Speaking on the occasion, SBP Governor Reza Baqir said the government employees and pensioners would be able to get payment of salaries and pensions in seconds. Baqir said it would also help curb corrupt practices and provide simple, secure and transparent transactions.

He said under the Prime Minister’s directions, the Roshan Pakistan system had met with success, adding the banks were also extending support to the people, who desired to take loans for building homes.

According to the data available with the SBP, digital payments account for only 0.2 per cent of Pakistan’s 100 billion transactions today, whereas the share of digital transactions in the peer countries ranges from 1.5 per cent to 7 per cent.

Raast is designed to operate at a cost recovery model to make digital payments affordable to end users of all socio-economic backgrounds. It will allow all financial institutions to seamlessly connect to each other via a single link to the central infrastructure, making digital payments accessible across any channel to customers of any financial institution.

Raast will also introduce more secure payment types to ensure that each transaction is authorised by the payer, and offer enhanced data protection and fraud detection services.

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Proudly putting Pakistan on the Digital World Map – Collision Conference

Collision Conference, draws speakers from the world’s most disruptive technology startups and brings them onto one platform. This year the conference took place in New Orleans, the new hotbed for tech! It was a three-day technology event from April 26th to 28th.

Collision is a new major US tech conference by the people behind the Web Summit. It strives to bring Venture Capitalists’ and technologists together to capitalize on their ideas. Technology startups are looking to pitch their idea and find funding to grow it, while the entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists are looking for the next great thing to invest in.

Over time, OffRoad Studios’s has been among the few responsible for resonating in the digital age. This tech season we took our digital footprints all the way to the Collision Conference and we were the only high tech firm to be exhibiting from Pakistan.

OffRoad Studios is recognized as one of the most innovative digital agencies in the world. We are the orchestrators of a digital ecosystem, through our revolutionary 360 IDEA’s (Interactive Digital Experiential Agency’s) philosophy, we have smartly integrated diverse forte of technology, creativity and media that empowers us to surpass today’s technology and creativity barriers.

At Collision, we exhibited our 360 services. We educated them regarding our projects and work, the role we can play for international businesses trying to venture in Pakistan and the untapped potential of the Digital Market in Pakistan. It was great interacting with like minded individuals, who are obsessed with experimenting and inventing.

Book Your Tickets Online with Pakistan Railway’s New e-Ticketing System

The nearly completed status of the introduction of an e-ticketing system in the current year was revealed by Mr. Khawaja Saad Rafique, the Minister for Railways. He also mentioned that United Bank Limited (UBL) came forward with its services for the e-ticketing system and also said that A-Class banks are also welcomed if they offer competitive prices.

Online payment for the tickets via debit/credit cards, online bank transfers are available for payment of their tickets. The digital ticketing system will allow passengers to book and pay for the tickets from their home using computers or mobile phones. This system will have more seat capitalization and there will be less chance of corruption. As everything is electronic tickets are booked fast and no human interaction is needed which reduces the chances of charging more premium by railway officials in rural or distant railway stations making it almost zero.

Pakistan Railways was offering an e-ticketing service some years back. It was started in 2008 but was pushed back when new management came into picture. No details about reasons were given for the termination and relaunching of the online ticketing system. Rs.65 million are spent on the overhaul and upgrading of the Karachi Express train where modern facilities were introduced hence increasing the cost for refurbishment, said the minister. He also said that the fare was not increased and the charges will be the same for all classes as of the Business Express Train. The earnings are expected to be Rs. 3.95 million per day. He also said that several projects also those connected to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and improvements of railway stations are in progress and that Pakistan Railways is aiming at improving its facilities and purchasing of 200 locomotives in the next fiscal year.

Telenor’s Plan of Action for a Digital Pakistan

Telenor has given a report named “Realizing Digital Pakistan” which asks the government

Reduce restrictive legislation or heavy taxation on sector
Reduce or eliminate device and data taxes
Develop data centers to support cloud computing
More mentoring and funding for budding entrepreneurs and technology developers for achieving the dream of digitizing Pakistan effectively.

Digital connectivity indicators can be achieved like Malaysia by 2020 by Pakistan but would have to meet prior actions including:

Use universal services fund (USF) to strengthen fibre backbone
Sign world Trade organization (WTO) information technologies agreement
Reduce all activation and service taxes by 25% every year from 2016 to 2020.

The report explained the potential of the country to adopt digital solutions was prepared by the Telenor Group with consultation and collaboration from TechPolis. It shows a possible roadmap which demonstrates how Pakistan can steer digital enablement throughout the country in the next five years.

According to the report, in the coming five years or less, digital connectivity indicators and be attained similar to Malaysia. Five standing points have been made for bringing a better future for the Pakistani people through more usage of digital technologies.

There were five targets set for arriving at the much desired result which are:

TARGET 1: Connect all schools and hospitals to broadband Internet access, and provide all farmers with mobile access and apps

TARGET 2: Triple the 2015 total value of e-Commerce by 2020

TARGET 3: Increase transparency and access to government budgets, policies and services

TARGET 4: Pakistan to establish next-generation iHub technology incubators to resolve local challenges by leveraging technology

TARGET 5: Pakistan to achieve digital connectivity indicators similar to Malaysia by 2020

Tore Johnsen, SVP Telenor Group & Chairman Telenor said:

Pakistan has an immense potential of piloting a sustainable digital turnaround. As shown in the report, this is achieved by embracing innovative digital solutions in areas such as education, health and governance.

With the ambition of delivering Internet for All, Telenor Group strives to be a long-term partner in realizing a Digital Pakistan, together with the government, the private sector, academia and civil society.

The report also contributes to the vision laid out by the Planning Ministry in their document “Pakistan 2025 – One Nation, One Vision.”

Anusha Rahman, Minister of State for IT & Telecom appreciated the efforts by the Pakistan Telenor in seeing the digital competence in Pakistan and its commitment to development of a digital innovation ecosystem in the country. She said:

The comprehensive report launched by Telenor Pakistan reflects how the country proceeds when it comes to utilizing digital technology in various walks of life, and the immense potential it carries for securing a better future for its people.

Telenor Pakistan’s pioneering initiatives towards expanding the overall internet ecosystem in the country including the launch of Pakistan’s first secure online payment solution Easypay by Easypaisa among others were much appreciated by the Minister.

Dr. Ismail Shah, Chairman PTA, said the country is now embracing digital technology as a powerful tool that is not just a means of communication, but a life-changing catalyst.

Along with other cellular operators, Telenor Pakistan has played an important role in making digital technology accessible to the people of Pakistan.

I hope, that the company continues its pursuit of a digital Pakistan where common people have access to better healthcare, education and governance at their fingertips.

Michael P. Foley, CEO, Telenor Pakistan, said Pakistan has a overabundance of digital opportunities and we, at Telenor, envision a future where those opportunities can be utilized to enable widespread digitalization.

With the launch of this report, we are putting countrywide digital access at the center and attaching utmost priority to offering cutting-edge technological solutions to facilitate digital connectivity.

Going forward, Telenor Pakistan aims to play a pivotal role in government’s efforts to promote e-exclusivity for all to foster socio-economic transformation of Pakistan.

The report was introduced by Ricardo Tavares, CEO TechPolis, said Pakistan can leverage the expansion of broadband access to reform public services and the economy and unleash a new era of job creation, quality-of-life improvement and economic growth.

The country can utilize its ample repertoire of technological talent and innovative solutions to revolutionize public services in the domains of education, healthcare, and agricultural assistance.

This report presents a comprehensive view on how Pakistan can truly usher in an era of innovation and progress that can improve the lives of ordinary people. We are immensely pleased to have collaborated with Telenor Group on this report.

For the achieving of digital Pakistan, tight coordination among the private sector, academia, civil society and government is very much required. All together contribute to supporting Pakistan’s move to the digital economy. Streamlining investments from private sectors, government policies and regulations, academia how to and civil society participation for digitalization for everyone’s advantage is a tall order Pakistan will face in reaching its Vision 2025.

For improving the health sector, the urban hospitals and the rural hospitals and clinics must be connected through Internet broadband. Focus will be given to e-Health, e-Education, and e-Agriculture. Mobile Health will help rural people to connect with the state-of-the-art equipment and services in city hospitals. E-Education will provide quality education where there is a lack of teachers and E-Agriculture will give farmers information that helps them improve the quality of their work.

Aligning government policies and regulations, private investment, academic know-how and civil society activism for digitalization to benefit all, is the biggest challenge Pakistan faces in achieving its Vision 2025

USF funds will be a means to guarantee the Internet connectivity among rural and urban areas. Also public and private sectors coming together will be encouraged to develop initial startups on e-Health, e-Agriculture and e-Education.

The Business to Customer (B2C) e-Commerce in Pakistan shows a mine of potential. The report wants to steer clear of restrictive legislation and taxation for letting eServices grow and creating trust in online services’ security. Success of the freelancers, and the ability of Pakistani IT workers inning international awards and qualified, English-speaking workforce display a latency to increase software exports and outsourcing.

Encouraging mobile operators to influence mobile identity with bio-metric identification for authentication of all e-commerce transactions, an e-procurement platform will be looked into for government acquirement and improved trade diplomacy will be given rise to.

E-governance will be encouraged for the promotion of accountability and transparency of the government. Reducing the gap between public’s demand for government services and availability is the principal aim. A central portal for the government which gives access to all the agencies, apps and facilitation of access to the data to increase app development is looked for. This will give the society to monitor government’s performance at different levels.

Entrepreneurship has seen a good growth in Pakistan in the last years. By setting up technology incubators and supporting entrepreneurs with initial funding this sector’s growth can be increased where the public and private sector partnerships will come into picture.

Facilities can be provided by the government, operators, technology vendors and academia all working together, greenfield funding and general mentoring for budding entrepreneurs and technology developers with government agencies and companies posing challenges.

An iHub is to be set up in Islamabad in the new Technology Park which will see the partnerships between operators and technology suppliers. It is also an aim to spread the “Islamabad Experience” to other cities.

The number of 3G/4G Users in Pakistan Increased reached 13 Million

Pakistan technology is booming in every single day, Pakistan mobile operators has included one million 3G/4G users this April in 2015 to manage the entire count of 3G and 4G users in country to 13 million announced by recently declared stats from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.

Recently Zong top charts and participated 487,487 new users to its 3G network, on the other hand Telenor added some 326,844 new users to 3G data services. Mobilink was capable to hold 226,877 new 3G data users during the month of April.

According to news declared from PTA that Ufone lost around 121,389 data users during the month.

Total number of 4G consumers in Pakistan now reached 141,177 with Warid leading the ranks with its 79,213 4G LTE users.3G/4G Mobile users in Pakistan

Internet.org Launched in Pakistan Explore 17 Websites for Free on Telenor

As rumors are rotating that Telenor is in collaboration with Facebook today, just launched the internet.org initiative in Pakistan, through which all Telenor customers Prepaid and postpaid have the facility to use selected internet website for free.

Telenor just introduced a program with 17 websites today that are available for free unlimited browsing. Nevertheless, if there external links then it will be charged as per regular tariffs. The leading high-ups of Pakistan has attended this event including Michael Foley, CEO, Telenor, Irfan Wahab, Deputy CEO, Telenor Pakistan and Aslam Hayat Khan, VP, Telenor Pakistan.

Facebook officials, supported by Ime Archibong, Global Head for Strategic Partnerships at Facebook, in top priority of his type representation from Facebook in Pakistan, were also active in the event.

Telenor has said that its internet.org initiative is aimed for first time internet users. Company has said that its currently not looking at any business proposition, instead the whole initiative is targeted to convert more users to internet.

Here we are introducing the list of websites that are available for free browsing:

Facebook
Telenor Mobile Portal
AccuWeather
Babycenter & MAMA
BBC News
Bing
ESPN Cricinfo
Facts for Life
Girl Effect
IlmkiDunya
Malaria No More
Mustakbil.com
OLX
Telenor News
UrduPoint Cooking
Wikipedia
BBC Urdu

How to Approach These Websites

This is useful for all Telenor users; in whatever city or whatever package they are using, they can go to the internet.org from their cell phones to approach these websites. However moving towards the internet.org website, users will highlight a list of websites they can approach free. On the other hand if

you are using a Smartphone, you can easily download internet.org app from the respective app store to use it. Any consumption within internet.org will be free.

Both 3G and 2G users can approach the internet.org free and there is no specifications to subscribe either activate anything. Below is how it will be presented when Telenor users will visit internet.org using their mobile browsers.

Source: Propakistani

Identical Force NA Panel to adjourn Cybercrime Bill

IT parliamentary panel releases news where they approved the Cybercrime bill. A meeting held on Friday, the panel took the decision to delay its decision to the electronic Crimes bill 2015, after few government advisers manifested concerns over the latest draft of the Cybercrime bill.

It seems that concerns have been noticed and they pushed the bill approval to be belated until some improvements are done. Captain(R) Muhammad Safdar, the Chairman of National Assembly’s Standing Committee for Information Technology, forwarded the concerns and criticism presented by lawmakers and the general public over the new bill at the meeting.

Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed, Prime Minister’s Special Assistant has conflict with Captain Safdar’s proposal in a confidential public hearing. He said after observing the Civil society’s reservations he has finalized the bill will not be place for approval.

There are few advisors presented severe resistance to his decision but he remained assert at his decision.

He said:

I cannot approve this bill in its current form as I have not noticed lacunas earlier and after hearing [those] I’m convinced that there is a need for improvement in the bill.

He suggested that civil society members can discuss the bill in-detail with the IT Ministry officials and propose changes. Captain Safdar requested Lawyer Babar Sattar to help in improving the current draft.

He added:

We have already spent three months on this bill and we want to refer it to the speaker. But if he resends it for further deliberation then we again deliberate on this.

Safdar did not extend the deadline despite his decision to defer the bill. He refused the idea of having an open meeting special with Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ). Afzal Butt PFUJ President implied that journalists would stage a protest if the government chooses to ignore their concerns over the controversial bill.

Anusha Rehman, Minister of IT and Telecommunications, stated that the IT Ministry held several meetings with the stakeholders to discuss the achieve a consensus draft bill which was sent to the Prime Minister in February 2014 (Though their definition of stakeholders seems different since the population is the major stakeholder).

She claimed that the draft had been available on the ministry’s website and received no criticism at the time. She said that not all segments of society were part of the forum that decided to defer the bill and that several people who were initially part of the bill’s formation were not in this meeting.

Updated Stats: 3G Users in Pakistan Reach 7.68 Million

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Amir ATTAA 10 Feb, 2015 4 comments
Statistics Updated: 7.68 million users of 3G in Pakistan

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority 3G users reporting in Pakistan has been a bit bumpy.

We provided by the operators can not compare data as a regulator of 3G users reporting no sense in talking about it, we still December 2014, a new data whereby data 3G users in Pakistan 7.680.000 December 31, 2014 touched.
PTA prior to the end of December 2014 to 6.37 million 3G users.

The maximum difference in current 3G or under-report data reported in the PTA at Ufone numbers or statistics.

PTA than they were a month ago where 3X 3G Ufone customers has corrected the record. Moreover, from July to September 2014 figures for 3G Ufone customers, also recently published data are updated.

How and why do we still not 3G subscriptions Ufone reported before and why PTA data was published without his previous 3G Ufone number to check.

In any case, according to the latest figures from the PTA, Telenor, Ufone is suddenly on second with 1.95 million subscribers, 2.26 million 3G users by the end of December 2014. With the market leads.

Zong with 1.66 million subscribers, Mobilink, while the fourth, is third with 1.79 million subscribers.

Evaluation of Social Media in Pakistan

Social Media in Pakistan is the buzzword in recent years, but has been developed for research is interesting.

During the research and writing of digital amnesia, I remember us from a lot of content in social media and through various social media platforms to summarize the basic fact has been putting a lot of data on the Internet How it was found active. What intrigued me even more social media has evolved over time, and how the future of the platform’s most popular social media possibilities somewhat.

The rise of social platforms: MSN AOL, Yahoo,

Social media shortly after the term may have originated, but like AOL, Yahoo, and MSN chat as services to their members want to create their profiles in the social platforms of the early days of the Internet can be detected. 2000s come and see social media platforms like MySpace and Orkut. They were around a few years and then just disappeared.

Facebook to leave behind what was on offer to their users to lose traction for these platforms could be several reasons. Regarding the use of social media are rare global data, we use in North America have the interesting data. One such interesting data on Facebook and other social media sites Facebook with sage among youth around the world about 1.35 billion active users has jumped from 49 percent to 9 percent is how.

Facebook users with 1.35 billion, the largest social network in the by world :

Social media really change the way people perceive and use of the Internet can be termed as the question is where is it? According to some experts on public profiles were calculated in the coming years and anonymity are important benefits. Youth was the driving force for social media platforms while they are referring to here, recently more and more elderly people are now using these platforms.

The latest figures for the first time, according to Pew Research, for example Facebook, Take, more than half of all online adults 65 and older (56%) are using Facebook . This represents 31% of all seniors in the United States and this is leading to something that they once enjoyed is no freedom Facebook adolescents and their parents, aunts and uncles on, Grandpa the syndrome is called the dinner table. Read more Facebook is still the most popular social networking site is slow growth means that reinforces the by point.

Focus on privacy of social network are expected to shape the future

One of the important factors that could now be looking for more privacy, and to accept friend requests are thinking twice before. Experts believe that the future of social media in micro-communities. We Tumblr, Snapchat and social media platforms like Instagram amazing to see the growth of these claims can be verified. Asset base grew 120% last year Tumblr users. Tendency to read tweets as Instagram photo memories is turning to watch short bursts.

According to Pew, for the first time, the Internet age 18-29 (53%), almost half of young adults who use use Instagram. And all Instagram users (49%) use the site everyday and if there is enough evidence Tumblr rejected its $ 3 billion Zuckerberg’s why they paid for Instagram everything and we all know why 0F half. Furthermore LinkedIn maximum professionals continues to grow as attached.

YouTube to get more steam for all video content has become the main platform:

The amazing fact achieve the above platforms or younger customers, while continuing to increase the use of YouTube and all social media platforms are optimized for YouTube’s own. Emphasis on video content is greater than ever. Communication and people spend more and more materials each other, are generated. This is due to the large institutions that propagate between the old and the new frontier of digital marketing and social media in recent years, the big jump into the bandwagon, new media has blurred the lines.

Large companies are more and more users come online through the content they want to share their brand experiences. As soon as a new form of digital marketing wearable technology goes mass market as has achieved, social media the way we live and what we do can be. This may scare many among us, and it all seems right stuff for Minority Report, but the opportunities are unlimited.