Dear All:
PIF's launch initiative - 'The National Innovation Grand Challenge' (NIGC) - is an 'Open Innovation' Competition designed to engage and empower Pakistani youth - students, entrepreneurs, professionals, and citizen innovators - in helping solve Pakistan's Development Problems and Competitiveness Challenges. Prizes are sponsored by some of the leading corporate and non-profit partners with strategic long-term interests in prize areas.
Patterned after the famous X-Prize and Grand Challenges in Global Health, the NIGC is a 15-month long process (starting July 2013) entailing design, prototype, and demonstration phases that will help train and mentor innovation teams to think out of the box and compete to solve a pre-specified problem (see promo video below):
National Innovation Grand Challenge - Introductory Promotional Video: https://vimeo.com/62493311
The NIGC will engage upto 150 teams competing for 4-6 'Prizes' sponsored by a corporate entity or a non-profit with some strategic interest in the area to solve a pre-defined well-specified problem. The participating teams shall be provided training, mentoring, networking, and even seed capital through the course of the 15-month long process.
I would like to write to you to introduce Pakistan Innovation Foundation - a private-sector driven non-profit platform - created to promote innovation within private sector and a broader society in Pakistan.
PIF seeks to do so by creating and executing a core programme agenda focussed on awareness building, rewarding and recognising innovation, and research and advocacy. In doing so, PIF seeks to fundamentally alter the incentives structure and help create an eco-system to support innovation within the society.
Pakistan - world's sixth largest country of a country of 185 million people - is suffering through a series of development challenges in food, energy, water, healthcare, education, and employment that threaten the very fabric of the society and pose a series sustainabilty challenge at multiple levels. In 25 years time, Pakistan's population would touch 300 million causing stresses on the life-support-system that will be unheard-off.
We strongly believe that the only way to address the current challenges is through innovation. Yet, the country suffers through disability of state institutions due to a total lack of governance. This is where an organised private sector can have a transformative effect. PIF seeks to jumpstart innovation by organising private sector to innovate.
We strongly believe that the only way to address the current challenges is through innovation. Yet, the country suffers through disability of state institutions due to a total lack of governance. This is where an organised private sector can have a transformative effect. PIF seeks to jumpstart innovation by organising private sector to innovate.
PIF's launch initiative - 'The National Innovation Grand Challenge' (NIGC) - is an 'Open Innovation' Competition designed to engage and empower Pakistani youth - students, entrepreneurs, professionals, and citizen innovators - in helping solve Pakistan's Development Problems and Competitiveness Challenges. Prizes are sponsored by some of the leading corporate and non-profit partners with strategic long-term interests in prize areas.
Patterned after the famous X-Prize and Grand Challenges in Global Health, the NIGC is a 15-month long process (starting July 2013) entailing design, prototype, and demonstration phases that will help train and mentor innovation teams to think out of the box and compete to solve a pre-specified problem (see promo video below):
National Innovation Grand Challenge - Introductory Promotional Video: https://vimeo.com/62493311
The NIGC will engage upto 150 teams competing for 4-6 'Prizes' sponsored by a corporate entity or a non-profit with some strategic interest in the area to solve a pre-defined well-specified problem. The participating teams shall be provided training, mentoring, networking, and even seed capital through the course of the 15-month long process.
PIF is now open for Individuals to register as members, volunteers,or mentors. (MEMBERSHIP FEE IS WAIVED FOR 2013)
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO FILL IN OUR MEMBERSHIP FORM OR REGISTER AS A MENTOR: http://www.pif.org.pk/member/
PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO FILL IN OUR MEMBERSHIP FORM OR REGISTER AS A MENTOR: http://www.pif.org.pk/member/
To get more involved, write to us through the website and one of us will get back to you.
PIF welcomes all its friends and well-wishers to take time out to participate and contribute. Lets join hands with this movement to create a knowledge-driven, innovative, and prosperous Pakistan - A Pakistan that believes in itself and delivers on its promise for everyone, from a man on the street to the one sitting in the corner office of a skyscrapper.
To contribute, please consider doing one or more of the follolwing:
a) Like PIF's facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/PakistanInnovationFoundation)
b) Visit our website to acquaint yourself with PIF (http://www.pif.org.pk)
c) Spread the word around you (share, like, email)
d) Follow us on Twitter (@InnovatePK)
e) Drop us a line to share your thoughts
f) Go to our website and fill a Form to Participate - Be a Member/Mentor/Volunteer
PIF welcomes all its friends and well-wishers to take time out to participate and contribute. Lets join hands with this movement to create a knowledge-driven, innovative, and prosperous Pakistan - A Pakistan that believes in itself and delivers on its promise for everyone, from a man on the street to the one sitting in the corner office of a skyscrapper.
To contribute, please consider doing one or more of the follolwing:
a) Like PIF's facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/PakistanInnovationFoundation)
b) Visit our website to acquaint yourself with PIF (http://www.pif.org.pk)
c) Spread the word around you (share, like, email)
d) Follow us on Twitter (@InnovatePK)
e) Drop us a line to share your thoughts
f) Go to our website and fill a Form to Participate - Be a Member/Mentor/Volunteer
Look forward to your support for the cause of innovation in Pakistan.
Best Regards,
Athar
Athar
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Athar Osama, PhD
Founder and Chief Executive,
Pakistan Innovation Foundation
Interim Office: Suite 208, Evacuee Trust Complex
Sector F-5, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92 305 2266810
Email: Athar.Osama@Gmail.com
Athar Osama, PhD
Founder and Chief Executive,
Pakistan Innovation Foundation
Interim Office: Suite 208, Evacuee Trust Complex
Sector F-5, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: +92 305 2266810
Email: Athar.Osama@Gmail.com
Twitter: @InnovatePK
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