05-14-2006, 10:08 PM
<b>Pakistanis win Stockholm challange</b>
http//pakistanidefenceforum.com/index.php?s=4b614788ddd19b72a05ca1d61ef5b58a&showtopic=55274
In a very formal ceremony of STOCKHOLM CHALLENGE at City Hall ( the hall where nobel prizes are given), yesterday evening, Pakistan won the Final award for ICT Entrepreneurship in Public Administration category. More then 500 projects all over the world were competing
in 6 diffrent categories for the final awards. There was very low participation from Pakistan, so only two projects could reach the final round.
One of them "RISEPAK" who just managed to reach Stockholm from Pakistan at 11th hour (as they were working with very limited resources ) won the Final award.
RISEPAK is an earthquake relief coordination and accountability tool designed to collect, collate and display information about damage, access and relief for rural Pakistani citizens affected by the Oct. 2005 Earthquake on a public portal, setup within 12 days of the earthquake. www.risepak.com ,
The kind of work what pakistan is doing is as good as anywhere else in the region, but somehow we dont have the buzzword unlike others.
This event was sponsored by Sun Microsystems, CISCO, Ericsson, SIDA, SPIDER, and KTH
For more info on Stockholm Challenge go to http//www.stockholmchallenge.se/default.asp
http//www.stockholmchallenge.se/projectdata.asp?id=1&projectid=1031
http//pakistanidefenceforum.com/index.php?s=4b614788ddd19b72a05ca1d61ef5b58a&showtopic=55274
In a very formal ceremony of STOCKHOLM CHALLENGE at City Hall ( the hall where nobel prizes are given), yesterday evening, Pakistan won the Final award for ICT Entrepreneurship in Public Administration category. More then 500 projects all over the world were competing
in 6 diffrent categories for the final awards. There was very low participation from Pakistan, so only two projects could reach the final round.
One of them "RISEPAK" who just managed to reach Stockholm from Pakistan at 11th hour (as they were working with very limited resources ) won the Final award.
RISEPAK is an earthquake relief coordination and accountability tool designed to collect, collate and display information about damage, access and relief for rural Pakistani citizens affected by the Oct. 2005 Earthquake on a public portal, setup within 12 days of the earthquake. www.risepak.com ,
The kind of work what pakistan is doing is as good as anywhere else in the region, but somehow we dont have the buzzword unlike others.
This event was sponsored by Sun Microsystems, CISCO, Ericsson, SIDA, SPIDER, and KTH
For more info on Stockholm Challenge go to http//www.stockholmchallenge.se/default.asp
http//www.stockholmchallenge.se/projectdata.asp?id=1&projectid=1031