TechLahore

A big shout out to Jehanara, President of the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA), and her management team for organizing a brilliant event last night at Karachi’s gorgeous Sheraton Hotel. The 8th Annual P@SHA’s ICT (Information and Communication Technology) awards were wonderfully organized, fairly judged and brilliantly presented. The tremendous momentum and growth of Pakistan’s [...]

I just received a message from the folks over at FiveRivers who have produced this wonderful documentary on innovation & entrepreneurship in Pakistan. It’s really worth watching, and I love the underlying message: the notion that we can redefine our perceived identity with our hard work and achievements. I can certainly sign up for that, and [...]

Stop the presses, ’cause here’s a piece of mind blowingly awesome news. Pepper.pk, a Lahore-based software company we’ve covered in the past, has hit it out of the park with their latest Photo Editor suite for Blackberry devices. Photo Editor has made it to #5 on the list of Top Paid Blackberry Applications ON THE [...]

I must say, a lot of interesting tech events and forums have been arranged recently. First the Blog Awards, then TEDx Karachi, which by the way deserves another post altogether. Now, Jehan Ara, President of PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) has announced that her organization will be starting a series of events appropriately called “Launchpad”. [...]

I just got back from GITEX Dubai a few days ago and still have to share my views on that show with you. I saw plenty of interesting stuff, so I do intend to do a couple of posts on that topic… But, to tide us over in the meanwhile, here’s some good news about [...]

Jehanara is not unknown to anyone familiar with the Pakistani IT scene. She has laboured and toiled for years to promote IT in Pakistan, in both her official capacity as the President of the Pakistan Association of Software Houses (P@SHA) as well as in her individual capacity as blogger, journalist and interviewer. One of her [...]

Pakistan’s software and IT exports are now in excess of $1BN, and the size of the IT industry, which was reported to be about $2BN last year, has grown to $2.8BN. This was reported by The Daily Times in an article based on a PSEB study and an interview with Pakistan Association of Software Houses [...]

Here’s another piece of news to validate something we’ve known for a while now. Pakistan’s software industry continues to show great growth, with the past 4 years showing 50% YoY increases. This is especially impressive given that there was a lot of media coverage of supposed instability in Pakistan close to the November/December 2007 timeframe. The [...]

BASIS, for those of you who don’t know (a group that included me until 5 minutes ago), is the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services. It’s an industry group and the Bangladeshi equivalent of our very own PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) or India’s NASSCOM. Anyway, a Bangladeshi newspaper, the New Nation, came out [...]

The Daily Times is running a story on the EPZA’s efforts to augment IT infrastructure in Pakistan. The export processing zone authority (EPZA) has launched a 6.5 acre facility in Karachi specifically for use by export oriented software companies. This comes at the heels of the software park developments taking place in both Islamabad and [...]