Pakistani Universities Get Part in Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions: ProPakistani

Pakistani Universities Get Part in Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
How Best to Utilize ICT for Development: Meeting Held
Telenor Rewards its Retailers

Pakistani Universities Get Part in Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:26 AM PST

Pakistani Universities Get Part in Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistani universities shared ideas, information and experiences at an
event at the National University of Singapore to provide a unified
voice to Oracle on all issues involving the solution among Asian
users, so as to better inform the scoping, planning, implementation,
and product development expertise surrounding Oracle's PeopleSoft
Campus Solutions for the future.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has convened the first ever
Asia PeopleSoft Enterprise Campus Solutions Special Interest Group
(Asia CSSIG) at a two-day event held on campus.

Mr Tommy Hor, Director of NUS Computer Centre, said: "Asian
institutions are at a different stage of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
adoption compared to our counterparts in North America, Europe and
Australia/New Zealand. The challenges faced by Asian institutions are
also quite different as the education systems are not entirely the
same. In a rapid changing business and technological environment, we
believe our needs can be better served when we come together to share
with Oracle our requirements, challenges and priorities in a single
voice."

"PeopleSoft Campus Solutions is seeing good adoption in almost every
country in Asia," said David Redden, General Manager, Asia-Pacific
Education Sector, Oracle. "This Asia Campus Solution Special Interest
Group is a great and timely initiative from NUS, and it is very
encouraging to see this marquee Asian university work so hard to
jump-start a forum such as this – bringing together like-minded,
skilled practitioners who are managing, collectively, a huge number of
students and alumni members in the region, to improve their skills and
expertise and to provide their technology partners like Oracle with
rich feedback and insight for us to help make the solution even more
applicable to institutions in Asia."

The Asia CSSIG is open to all existing institutions that use
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, or who are considering the use of the
solution. Response to the inaugural Asia CSSIG was overwhelming, with
the number of attendees significantly exceeding initial expectations.
The 140 participants from 25 education institutions in Singapore, Hong
Kong, India, Pakistan, Malaysia also represented a good mix of
management and project/support team representatives from the various
institutions.

How Best to Utilize ICT for Development: Meeting Held

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:21 AM PST

How Best to Utilize ICT for Development: Meeting Held is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistan Technology Board, Ministry of Science & Technology held an
Expert panel meeting under the Technology Foresight Project in PCST.

The objective of the meeting was to discuss the "Effective utilization
of ICT for the sustainable development of Pakistan".

The Director General, Pakistan Technology Board, Mr. Muhammad Khalid
Siddiq chaired the meeting. Amongst the participants were members from
Public and, private sector, academia and civil society.

The Director General in his remarks told that the Foresight is not a
new concept for the world and it dates back to early 70's when Japan
first took the initiative.

Considering the huge socio-economic benefits the world has
experienced, this concept was brought to Pakistan in 2007 when
Ministry of Science & Technology undertook this project through
Pakistan Technology Board. Mr. Siddiq expressed his hope that the
expert group will produce a plan and a document which is implementable
and do able.

The expert group, following the international practice, selected Mr.
Mansoor Malik (Ex Chairman IEEE) as the chair of the panel with Mr.
Paras Ali (Editor Technology Times) as his secretary for the up coming
meetings. The panel came to a consensus to identify the applications
of ICT in various sectors including Agriculture, Industry, Health,
Education and Environment.

Further it was proposed a model through which the panel will take this
activity to the provinces and establish a linkage with the academia
and societies in each province. The major outcome will be to find the
key applications of ICT in respective areas considering the next 10-15
years.

Telenor Rewards its Retailers

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 07:54 PM PST

Telenor Rewards its Retailers is a post from: ProPakistani

Telenor Pakistan, gave away 12 motor bikes and around 2200 cash prizes worth Rs. 4.8 million to its Easyload retail partners from different regions of Pakistan under its 'Telenor Maala-maal Offer'.

Retail Partners whose July Easyload sales exceeded previous month by 5 percent were eligible to enter the lucky draw. A 10 percent increase allowed them a double entry in the draw.

Appreciating the support of retail partners, Telenor Pakistan's Director Sales & Distribution Malik Faisal Qayyum said, "Our retail partners have been the backbone of our distribution network. We would like to thank them for their enthusiastic participation in the 'Telenor Maala-maal Offer' and extend our heartiest congratulations to all the winners”.

The Maala-maal offer gave away 12 Motorcycles, 30 prizes of PKR 10,000 each, 60 prizes of PKR 5,000 each and 2100 prizes of PKR 2,000 each to easyload retailers across regions in the country. The Maala-maal scheme is a continuation of the previously run Easyload Millionaire Prize Schemes.