All Answers: Re: [pakgrid] Team Pakistan wins 2 Golds and 5 Silvers at APICTA....

Dear Asif

Thanks for the email. I full agree that our goal should be to conquer the peak. One should not feel satisfied and content if one has reached at the camp 3 during our Mount Everest mission. But reaching at Camp 3 is the logical step to move further and hence it should be appreciated as well.

Thanks for sharing the links and I hope that some of us will find them useful.

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Professor & Head (Department of Electrical Engineering),
Director, Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center [www.nexginrc.org],
FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences,
A.K. Brohi Road, H-11/4,
Islamabad 44000,
Pakistan

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Asif Mufti <anmufti@yahoo.com> wrote:

Can the winner translate this to new business/added revenue ... ?

Can you capture venture capital with this say in Silicon Valley ? Great you have won over APICTA for the last several years we need to go to the international stage and go head to head with the best.

If you want to see innovation that we should strive for; check the winner list in the link below ..... this is an example of innovation. This is what we should aim for - to develop innovative product we need to learn to team together ......

Innovative approach to solving existing problems will bring revenues accolades and recognition.

http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Topics/Pages/NewGHSolutions.aspx

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/photogalleries/Pages/default.aspx#gallery=/global-health/Pages/gce-winners-round-6.aspx&image=7&pager=0&filter=

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From: "Jehan Ara President P@SHA" <president@pasha.org.pk>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] Team Pakistan wins 2 Golds and 5 Silvers at APICTA....

We are extremely proud of all the nominees who participated and of course of the winners. Thanks for posting this Imran.

Please also check out the following links regarding the Team Pakistan win at APICTA in Thailand:

http://jehanara.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/pakistan-grab-two-golds-five-silvers-at-apicta-2011-in-pattaya-thailand/

http://jehanara.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/team-pakistan-wins-accolades-even-before-the-awards-announcement/

Best regards,
Jehan

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:32 AM, ziaimran <zia.imran@gmail.com> wrote:

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Congratulations to all Pakistani ICT entrepreneurs who won a total of 7 awards at Asia Pacific ICT Alliance in Thailand last night.

Asia Pacific ICT Alliance consist of Australia, Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Pakistan among others. Their annual event this year drew more than 160 entries from top entrepreneurs and companies from member economies.

The two Gold won by Pakistani companies went to CARE and Lumensoft. The mentors to Pakistani companies included Jehan Ara, Jawwad Farid, Zafar Khan, Nadeem Malik and Badar Khushnood.

More coverage is at,

http://financetrainingcourse.com/education/2011/11/asia-pacific-ict-awards-and-the-results-are-out/