Seed Investment Fund and loT were announced by OPEN Islamabad at their Annual Forum

Open Islamabad Annual Forum 2015 was closed by 19-Dec-2015. Event hosted people from all over Pakistan, which was held in the serene location of Shankar Pariyaan. CEOs, entrepreneurs, innovators, policy makers, officials from the Government, development and academia were attended in the event.

This OPEN (Organization of Pakistan Enterpreneurs) which is a non-profit organization diligently dedicated to promote entrepreneurship and leadership in Business among the international Pakistan Community. They have a good active history in certain locations like Boston, Silicon Valley, New York, Washington DC, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, London, Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. To the launch time Open Islamabad was their only chapter which is fastest application. Their first Annual Forum held last year was focused on celebrating the entrepreneurs of Islamabad, well this year they escalated to give a platform to graduates at the level of excellence and demonstrable success.

The event was entertained and included with motivational talks, innovation showcases, networking opportunities and announcements too. Successful people from different fields like Medicine, Philosophy, Business & Entrepreneurship, Academia and Media were given their speeches and added more interest as speakers. The best known psychiatrist who owned with an award of Sitara e Imtiaz by the Pakistan Government was first speaker in the event. He shared his journey along with his experiences and key figures who influenced him to adopt the profession of Psychiatry.

Accelerator Program Startup was by Telenor

An inspirational talk from Telenor’s Chief Marketing Officer, Irfan Wahab Khan, was delivered about his passionate learning and his eventual rise to the top. He also announced two official announcements:

Soon Telenor will be launching a startup accelerator and IoT (Internet of Things) solutions.

Mr. Wahab mentioned:

There are numerous startup incubators and accelerators in Pakistan, but all they do is provide you with space and mentorship. We are hoping to change that with Telenor’s Accelerator Program which will be launched some time in the near future. With our program we are aiming to provide our startups with our API’s for payment facilitation, location and distribution. Our enrolled startups will also have access to our customer base for marketing purposes as well. Furthermore, we are also hoping to launch our IoT solutions soon: some of which include a Child Wrist Watch and a Car Monitoring OBD.

Telenor given a chance to the attendees to get a hands-on experience with the devices in the event. One of the interesting among them is Child Wrist Watch which is like other watches but also allowing parents to monitor their child’s movements and give a alarm siren if they moved out of the assigned radius. And a device called OBD which can be installed in cars to keep a track of your car speed, mileage and fuel as well.

OPEN Islamabad Seed Fund & loT Lab:

President of OPEN Islamabad, Mr. Owais Anjum made 3 important announcements in his speech.

OPEN’s very own seed fund to be launched soon.
OPEN’s Super Advisor Group will work in close on the startups,
An loT Lab will be introduced soon.

Mr.Owais did not disclose any further news on these ventures and preferred to keep details in veil presently.

Lastly event also enclosed with the talks of Dr.Anwaar-ul-Hassan Gilani of Pakistan Council for Science and Technology, Dr. Farrukh Hassan, Iqbal Khan of Alachsoft, Asad Umar, President of OPEN Global Dilawar Syed, Anchor Shamoon Hashmi, Narjis Ali of Sure Secure Solutions and Khurram Jamali from Google.

Revolt Taking Admissions for the First Ever Batch of Startups

Peshawar 2.0 started to take applications for the first batch incubation and acceleration programme. In the province a programme named Revolt which is the first non University programme.

Revolt, programme is short-term programme of 3-months to train, support and promote students, scientists, innovators, designers and engineers from each level to convert their ideas to real-life businesses. Focused partners or people who are connecting universities and the local market and industries as well, to make a route of channel for the creative and innovation potential of youth especially students who are in the region towards economic development.

Dr Faisal Khan, the Lead Partner at Revolt, said:

Revolt is the only real startup factory in the KP region. We are sector agnostic and welcome ideas from any sector provided it has the potential, and ideally solves any of the local problems we face. After almost 3 years of spade work, we now begin to seed the City with great startups one batch at a time.

Salman Ahmad, who is also a partner at Revolt shared his words like:

What sets us apart from any other incubation programme in the country is that its run by full time partners. You live, work and play right next to them and the other teams in a shared office space.

Bilal Ahmad, Education Lead at Peshawar 2.0 and a partner at Revolt given input as:

It’s a programme run by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Its going to be hands-on and hands-dirty for all. Basecamp, which is a staple location for the techie and creative folks, is now become a strategic partner with Revolt.

Muhammad Uzair, Co-founder Basecamp Peshawar glad to say this:

We provide the most creative, vibrant and conducive physical environment to all basecampers that will now include incubatees at Revolt.

Slide is Pakistan’s First Rewards Based Lockscreen Android App

The common person unlocks their smartphones more than 100 times each day. Imagine a scenario in which you could work towards winning something substantial every time you did that. That is the reason behind Slide, another lockscreen Android App. The brainchild of Junaid Malik, previous COO of Bramerz, Slide was dispatched at an occasion held before in Lahore today.

The way it works is this: subsequent to connecting your Facebook account, you select what topics interest you, enter a couple points of interest and that is it. Presently every time you open your screen, you’d see custom-made substance and the choice to search through and read it (and obviously the choice to open the phone).

Every time you read an article or open your screen, you get focuses which can be reclaimed for treats. A lot of distributers like BuzzFeed, Daily Mail and even ProPakistani are joined forces with Slide so there is no deficiency of drawing in substance. At this time, you can just recover focuses for mobile top ups yet clients will soon have the capacity to benefit rebates at their most loved attire stores, get free film tickets and significantly more.

While the thought for a prizes based lock screen application is not new, Slide is certainly one of the first ones that have custom-made their item for the Pakistani market. Considering the amount of time the normal individual spends on their telephones and the rising offer of cell phone clients in the 129 million mobile subscribers in the nation, the thought behind Slide bodes well.

In any case, the irritating question of monetization sterns its revolting head each time a startup is specified and it’s the same here. Applications like Slide regularly get got in a chicken and egg problem. They aren’t feasible till they get a minimum amount of users and they don’t get a minimum amount of users unless intensely incentivized.

For instance, at this moment Slide is by all accounts joining forces with distributers for nothing. More traffic is constantly great so you won’t see any of them whining. Then again, it’s paying manifestly obvious prizes to its users. That needs to leave some place and I feel like once enough traffic begins being produced, they’ll begin charging distributers for showing up on the lockscreen. On the off chance that that happens, it evacuates all motivation on the distributers part and disposes of the extremely content that users have gotten to be usual to.

Then again perhaps the group behind Slide is more brilliant and have another arrangement which we haven’t seen yet. In any case, it’s a clever little application that would pay out 100 rupees in portable adjust once every month in the event that you utilize normal versatile opening measurements. Considering you’re doing it in any case, we’d say it’s well justified, despite all the trouble. All things considered, there is nothing Pakistanis like more than free stuff.

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Uber Officially Confirms its Plans to Launch in Pakistan

The declaration of a trio of Pakistan centric vacancies on Uber’s vocation page prodded hearsay that the on-demand firm is going to enter the local business sector. Observant netizens spotted employment promotions for a General Manager, Marketing Manager and Operations and Logistics Manager.

Presently, it’s been formally confirmed by Shaden Abdellatif, who’s the communications supervisor for Uber’s Middle East and Africa operations in a messaged articulation to ValueWalk.

“We can confirm we are currently recruiting for a team in Lahore, and are very excited about launching in Pakistan as we see huge potential in the way we can help people move around their city safely and reliably.

We are also excited about the opportunity for economic empowerment we can bring to the drivers we partner with.”

In case we’re being straightforward, Uber coming to Pakistan was just a matter of time. With more than 120 million phone clients, growing 3G/4G memberships that have come to 18 million in only year and a half and expanded mindfulness implies that organizations like Uber have a case in Pakistan.

The organization as of late declared a $1 billion speculation into neighboring India and there are likenesses between our two markets.

All the more essentially, the development of administrations like Travly demonstrates that Pakistan is prepared for a noteworthy interruption with regards to transport.

We expect that Uber will begin its operations in Pakistan with Lahore at first, then again, more urban areas will be included into Uber scope down the line.

It is yet to be checked whether Uber will keep up its own armada of autos with in-house drivers in Pakistan, or masses will be welcome to join Uber with their own particular autos as its local model that is polished everywhere.

Uber, which gives on-interest rides by means of a smartphone application, is a standout amongst the most important privately owned businesses on the planet. Most as of late, it directed a financing round surpassing $1 billion, turning into the second organization after Facebook to surpass $50 billion valuation before opening up to the world. In five years, it has extended to 58 nations and 300 urban areas.

Lets Participate in ITU’s Young Innovator Competition to Win Funding and Get Mentorship

ITU Telecom World is an annual event that held place in different venue every year. The purpose of the event is to introduce together everyone through the public and private sectors to investors, experts, and entrepreneurs, businesses to support ICT innovations for the growth of economy and social good and groom the world sooner.

What is the ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition?

The basic purpose of the competition is to underline creative ideas on how ICTs can support to keep people safe in conflict. Creative ideas can work on multiple forms. They can concentrate on prevention of conflict, betterment of safety and security reconnecting communities or peace building among their topics.

Rules and Restrictions:

The candidates must be between 18 and 30 and can have either a properly managed startup or the idea for the new one.

What Do You Get?

To winners will join ITU Telecom World 2015 in Hungry, Budapest October 12-15, 2015 to highlight their ideas, perform in workshops, get advantage from a year of ongoing mentorship, and win seed funding.

How Do You Take Part?

PTA is supporting Pakistani individuals, students and youngsters to share their ideas on ITU Telecom World Forum for young innovators competition through registering at http://ideas.itu.int . The compliance on said competition might be shared with PTA on email: yic@pta.gov.pk along your biography and contact details .

Deadline for Application:

The last date of submission is 25 June 2015 so just take a quick step as you just have couple of days to participate in this competition.

Pakistan will Present Asia’s First Smartphone Film Festival in Sep 2015

This is the first time in the Asian film industry when Pakistan will be the only country representing the Smartphone Film Festival in September this year. On this platform, audience can see the founder of iPhone Film Festival Mr. Ruben Kazantsev and Hollywood’s filmmaker as both will inaugurate the festival personally. It was declared in a pre-launch ceremony at the Pak American Cultural Center (PACC) in Karachi.

It is organized by iSmart Films with the collaboration of the world’s most popular iPhone Film Festival, Wajood Media, Blems Production and MadJoint Studios, people are looking forward for this Smartphone Film Festival that will feature movies and documentaries as well, produced by local filmmakers utilizing their Smartphone devices.

The basic purpose of the prelaunch ceremony cum press conference was to upgrade the Asia’s first and the world’s 9th Smartphone Film Festival being organized this year in Pakistan. The press conference started with the detailed media comprising details for the prime objectives of the festival including a question & answer session. After this a significant film reviewing session was also arranged presenting the movie making projects produced by the local young film young creators and media students using their mobile devices.

Speaking on the historic occasion, Mr. Kamran Ata, Cofounder iSmart Films, said that the modern telecommunication devices and newly-introduced smart phones and had enabled common men and women to capture thrilling stories and share those videos via social media in a second.

Thanks to these small, pocket-sized mobile phones, Pakistani youth has got a wonderful medium to showcase their hidden talent as potential filmmakers and make a bigger impact in the film making world globally. Considering the growing number of Smartphone users in the country, this mega Smartphone Film Festival renders an equal opportunity to both men and women, especially empowering our local women to rule the roost with the power of Smartphone technology and the vigilant eye for capturing the imagination, added by Mr. Ata, Cofounder iSmart Films.

Mr. Abid Beli, Cofounder iSmart Films, also spoke on the occasion. In his address, he invited local Smartphone users to make the most of this tremendous opportunity by submitting their films and the rest of the video creations in the upcoming mega festival.

Being made with the collaboration of iSmart Films, the audiences were also introduced the filming projects submitted by Ms. Asma Alwaz of Khairpur Sindh and Mr. Faizan Sheikh, a student of Iqra University Karachi, including many other students of media studies. These video concepts received an outstanding applause from the viewers.

The worldly popular iPhone Film Festival gives a platform for young filmmakers giving them support and energizing them to support them create visually attractive masterpieces that have the competency to change the world. Now with millions of film submission in more than 50 countries all over the world the

Mobilink awards won – WWF’s Green Office

Lahore and Islamabad Mobilink three of his premises by the Green Office has confirmed that it has become the only telecommunications company.

Its headquarters, Mobilink House and annex II CIB, the Islamabad Electric, paper and waste and solid waste your employees use the knowledge level was successfully audited the latest WWF Green 2015 The award was granted.
Overall, more than 73% of Mobilink reduce their consumption of resources was able to. Previous Mobilink other measures adopted in 2014, a 35% reduction in carbon footprint and 50 percent of solid waste was.

Omar Manzur, Director of Corporate Communications, Mobilink.

Corporate responsibility Function Mobilink employees are aware of environmentally friendly practices and efficient use resources.The Green Office Award torch bearers Mobilink Foundation (HSSE) ensures that recognizes the efforts of the departments of health, safety, Security and the Environment. Environmental complex has established offices in Lahore and Islamabad. ”
Under this project in early 2014, Environmental Management System for local people to reduce carbon footprint Mobilink’s business helped promote a greener work environment was designed for. This daylight, recycled and reused, saving protocols and Mobilink employees are involved in developing green practices.

Mobilink Torchbearers who advocated the “Green Watchers” to raise awareness among employees, reuse and recycle (RRR) was designated as the system less.

Zong partner Askari bank intends to acquire KASB Bank

Askari Bank, Zong’s partner in its branch-less banking business meet the capital requirement is mandated by the central bank in November to face ban is KASB Bank, was dedicated to the pursuit of is confirmed with fountains. Askari Bank Board of the Bank to conduct due diligence No Objection Certificate (NOC) is in the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to submit the application in the bank’s administration gave the green light to signal .

The central bank’s banking and financial sector in the very early stage of Askari Bank is unlikely to allow the business to expand. Evaluation of financial and legal due diligence related to the evaluation process followed, Askari Bank KASB Bank management on a price. If this happens, the acquisition of military KASB Bank bank branches is also companies and commercial sector and personal services in terms of on-time for your business benefit Zong branch.

105 KASB Bank branches in 44 different cities, the services G2P, remittances from abroad, to pay salaries and the ISP may be the financial center of branchless banking. Time at over 25,000 outlets, including 291 bank branches are armed.

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Tune.TV to lead the online market

Digital online advertising is growing in Pakistan and is now in need of serious attention. Television audiences for cable and satellite TV content on the Internet is to be considered estimates, the global ad spending on TV content soon will take on traditional television advertising business.

Tune.TV legal, premium and freedom of viewer demand streaming service, which is Pakistan’s first and only video. Service of Pakistan under license from high quality material features entertainment TV channel. Viewers HD Tune.tv enjoy their favorite content and its technology based on user login automatically adjust to the loss of quality. No buffering, no suffering.

Tune.Tv fastest growing video site is Pakistan. Alexa from its soft launch in a few weeks, and in 1000 opened the way to the top is fast approaching. Pakistan is back and you receive 75% of traffic is the most long-form video game that was called.

Service offers a true TV experience and technology of media rolls and pre-service allows perfection and performance-mails. It comes to advertising, Tune.TV selected for quality over quantity. Box minimal advertising and advertising a very limited amount of video stream. No annoying pop-ups, no hard malware or virus threats, only high-quality entertainment. Tune.Tv team also promote greater commitment and results measurement that can produce creative and sponsorship.

Tune.Tv based on the latest technology to provide state-of-the-art HTML5 Video Player is the first website of Pakistan. Viewers player allowed to share direct links to content that goes viral, it increases the likelihood. The purpose of this service more effective video advertising Pakistan. The audience when, where and how they want to provide the quality of the video content, it is expected to achieve. And viewers, content owners and advertisers alike will love the service by making.

Exclusive: Pakistan-based services for citizens (applications) to invest billions in bringing

Pakistan’s government has tons of services to citizens is the foundation is working on a project whereby – in the form of web and mobile applications – will be launched in the coming days, are aware of the development Cellular sources told.

The final plan has not been signed yet, since the sources declined to be named, and has partnered with leading multinational companies under the government of Pakistan’s first substantial applications, and a telecommunications company for on the web and mobile citizens.

These applications useful information to the public, reporting and similar services will be designed to provide.

According to the students, startups, the private companies (such as health, education, agriculture and e-government as) has identified five areas (or literally any) will be asked to come up with ideas. (In each area mentioned above) tens of better ideas will be selected by a grant to get it done.

The value of the subsidy depends on the scope and application value.

We may hope that this initiative requests can not say much about the type and orientation, but it usually see in movies Pakistanis were based services will be able to experience be safe to assume that while.

Ideas based on their production, for the ultimate benefit for society and the country will be priced.

No word yet on the total value of grants and the government will accept the implementation of ideas that would provide for the number of views.

In the next couple of weeks-with the official announcement of the project is expected.

With the start of the government through the IT services based on the information provided through channels is intended to improve governance.

After the creation of Pakistan in 3G and 4G technology, this type of initiative has been forced to spend – only when the question was about.

You can transform our communities, societies based information system for the construction of the environmental urged the government and the private sector have read our previous story, then it is the realization that he had dreamed.