2011: Pakistan IT industry's golden year

[Omar1984]

2011: Pakistan IT industry's golden year

The year 2011 saw a number of positive developments in Pakistan’s Information and Technology (IT) industry, from app development to global recognition and a series of awards.

HIGHLIGHTS

Pakistan Fast Growth 25

In a first for the IT industry, the Pakistan Fast Growth 25, a ranking of fast growth companies, listed 10 IT companies on its index. The Pakistan Fast Growth 25 is a program of the AllWorld Network in partnership with Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, launched in collaboration with JS Bank Limited.

Official Game for ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup

Local development company, Mindstorm Studios developed the official game for the ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup.The browser-based 3D game, “Cricket Power” features all 14 official teams along with players, stadiums and kits.

Pak-India ICT Firms to enhance trade up to $5b

Pakistani and Indian IT committees held bilateral talks separately on both sides of borders in March – aimed at enhancing trade ties in the field of IT. In the talks, both countries agreed to boost mutual trade in the IT sector by $5 billion through joint-ventures, investment and exchange of expertise.

Netsol deal in India

Local ICT company Netsol engaged with Indian companies to provide applications for financial services. It signed an agreement to sell its product “Netsol Financial Suite” to a global auto leasing company operating in India.

Google grants to social innovators

In another first for Pakistan, Google has granted seed money to a local association for social causes.

Google granted $250,000 to Pakistan Software Houses Association that launched Pasha Fund for distributing the amount to talented innovators. So far four individuals were selected to receive funds.

Pepper.pk mobile apps triumph

Local app developers, Pepper.pk hit the number one spot in Blackberry App World. Their application, LED Notifier Pro, has been immensely popular since its launch and ranked among the best selling Blackberry applications in the world. Additionally, their app, Photo Editor for BlackBerry has occupied the number one rank on App World twice in the past three months.

TenPearls wins Nokia contest twice

Pakistani IT firm TenPearls marked another record, beating out 800 entrants to bag second position and received a $50,000 cash prize at ‘Nokia & AT&T Innovators 2011 Contest’.

This is the second award TenPearls has received for its mobile app named “Animal 101” within a year. Their first award was first prize for their app uTrack mobile earlier in 2011 for the same platform in Pakistan.

Pakistan Shines at APICTA

Pakistan was declared the winner of two gold and five silver awards at the 11th annual Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) 2011 in Pattaya, Thailand. Pakistani firms secured two gold awards in the e-health and e-logistics and SCM categories and five silvers in the communication, financial, security, e-inclusion and e-community and e-government categories.

Pakistan’s team comprised of 18 products which competed against 162 different products from the Asia Pacific region.


2011: Pakistan IT industry’s golden year – The Express Tribune

 

[Omar1984]

No indian will ever comment in this thread because its positive news on Pakistan

 

[SpArK]

No indian will ever comment in this thread because its positive news on Pakistan

Well done... Happy now?

 

[fd24]

Well done... Happy now?

Thanks SpArKy - im over the moon mate!!

 

[Manas]

No indian will ever comment in this thread because its positive news on Pakistan

When the Article itself talks so much about indian contribution in pakistani IT sector ,do we need to comment more??

 

[Omar1984]

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[Hutchroy]

2011: Pakistan IT industry's golden year

2011: Pakistan IT industry’s golden year – The Express Tribune

Mr. Omar1984,

Please refer to the following Report :

PASHA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2008 STATE O F THE INDUSTRY REPORT

Following from the above Report – Page 17 :

A 2006 PSEB estimate puts the overall size of Pakistan’s IT industry at around $2.2 billion. This includes IT and IT-enabled exports of around $1,050 million and the domestic IT spend of about $1,150 million.

Please advise as to the figures, for both IT and IT-enabled exports and the domestic IT spend, today i.e. Five Years after 2006.

 

[T90TankGuy]

actually its a very positive sign . improving the economy is the only way forward.

 

[karan.1970]

IT related good news for Pakistan makes me remember Techlahore .. ... Wonder where is he...

good job Pakistan..

 

[desiman]

No indian will ever comment in this thread because its positive news on Pakistan

we have no problems with your growth, please stop living in your hateful world. Good job Pakistan, keep it up !!!!

 

[Tamil Arasan]

No indian will ever comment in this thread because its positive news on Pakistan

When it comes to India you guys call us "code coolies" and you expect praise from us on your IT industry!!!,don't know how you guys run your programs without writing codes??

Well it's always good for India if it's neighbors also progressing and my best wishes for your IT industry...

I want to see the face of those Pakistani PDF members who used to say Indians as "code coolies" after reading the below messages...

Pak-India ICT Firms to enhance trade up to $5b

Pakistani and Indian IT committees held bilateral talks separately on both sides of borders in March – aimed at enhancing trade ties in the field of IT. In the talks, both countries agreed to boost mutual trade in the IT sector by $5 billion through joint-ventures, investment and exchange of expertise.

 

[SMC]

we have no problems with your growth, please stop living in your hateful world. Good job Pakistan, keep it up !!!!

I actually think otherwise. Bharatis are very active in creating threads about negative news, or posting in threads about negative news. Can't say the same for positive threads.

 

[Omar1984]

Govt negotiating with other countries for IT

* Existing pool of IT experts is not sufficient to meet domestic requirements

By Ijaz Kakakhel

ISLAMABAD: To encourage Information Technologies, the government is negotiating with many countries including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, Iran, Nepal, Maldives, Vietnam, Italy, Serbia, Egypt, Tunisia, Sudan, Mauritius, Ireland for mutual cooperation and investment in IT and IT enabled sectors in Pakistan.

The Pakistan Software Export Board, through Ministry of Commerce is negotiating with these foreign countries; sources told Daily Times here on Friday. The foreign companies are offered cooperation and encouraged to invest in IT and IT enabled services sector through public and private forums on a regular basis by Pakistan Software Export Board. The details about the investments proposed by any of these countries will be shared and published by the Board of Investment.

About number of IT related experts in the country, the sources said the PSEB data revealed that there are approximately 110,000 IT professionals in the country at present where 24,000 IT experts and engineers are working in export oriented IT companies. The PSEB has conducted “Pakistan IT Market Revenue Estimation and Classification Study” in 2009-10 in which 75 prominent companies were surveyed, employing around 7500 full time staff. Overall, there are 1,800 IT and IT enabled services companies registered with the PSEB. However, field-wise information of IT experts and engineers is currently not available, the sources maintained. However, the sources claimed that the current pool of IT experts, engineers available in the country is not sufficient to meet the domestic requirements. The PSEB has undertaken many initiatives to harness the talent and provide full support to IT Industry. Some of these steps are: deployed 5,100 IT graduates and final year students in IT Companies from Jan 2002 to Nov 2011 where 90 percent interns secured jobs.

The PSEB has provided 788 apprentices to Information Technologies Companies from March 2006 to Jan 2010 and trained 9 000 IT professionals on Open Source Technologies from 2004 to 2010, it is learnt. During the outgoing year, 2011, the government through PSEB has trained 25 IT Professionals in Business to Business (B2B) Sales and trained 30 students from the underserved area of Pakistan in Gaming and Animation Development in the same year. The government through PSEB also provided specialized training to 60 professionals in graphics, animation and gaming from in the last four years and trained 189 IT professionals in PMP, Networks and System Security, Software Architecture, Oracle Financials and Siebel CRM. The sources further said that specialized training grant approved for 15 IT companies in the last four years and also trained 350 IT professionals in English language proficiency in the same period.

The PSEB is in process of establishing Centres of Excellence for Applied Software Technologies and Open Source (COEASTOS) in collaboration with the academia and the industry to grow the skilled human resource pool for Pakistan’s IT Industry. The PSEB has also started an incubator programme with effect from Sep 2011. Incubator programme is a process where young IT graduates and professionals are being helped to form new companies and IT ventures. By now two teams have been housed at PSEB head office and the selection of five more teams is in progress.

The sources further said that the PSEB has also launched a revision in its existing Internship programme for the deployment of 5,000 more interns in the IT Industry and it is also initiating “Quality Certifications and Specialized Trainings programme for the IT Industry.” Through this programme 4-5 companies will be assisted in achieving CMMi and ISO 27001 Certifications, the sourced concluded.


http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\01\07\story_7-1-2012_pg5_8

 

[Areesh]

No indian will ever comment in this thread because its positive news on Pakistan

No need for this post. A thread free from trolling is always good. Wonder why you want trolls here.

 

[Rank]

Nothing impressive and good impact on the employes. Only owners and investors got money thats it.. Still bad increments this year in all IT organizations around Pakistan. I am from IT field (a graphic designer) and working in **** firm. Working one of top ten companies of Pakistan. Certified in CMMI, ISO 9000** 27000** and ISMS certifications. The situations is extremely worst as compare to all previous years. Let me give you an example. Mostly 3/4/5 years of experience developers and QA experts moved abroad because of low salary packages and bad increments this year. Near more thn 40 friends of mine only who were working in different organizations (mostly working in Pakistan's well known IT firms) moved abroad between June 2011-2011 Dec on very short notice period (immediate resign). Because of so much late sittings/extra work load/no moral/low salaries/mostly owners attitude and the most important thing "extremely bad increments" in 2010 and going worst in 2011. So this is totally BS news that Pakistan growth @ top 2011 if you see from EMPLOYEE point of view from whom (work) the owners and this companies actually earn!