MoMo Islamabad – Post May 7th Event Report
Posted on: May 8, 2012 – Filed under: Islamabad
Mobile Monday event was held on 7th May, 2012 at CIIT Islamabad campus as per schedule. Around 120 participants including students and faculty from NUST, APCOMS and CIIT Islamabad attended the event. The main objective of this month’s event was an introduction of wi-tribe bazaar among the students community.
Muhammad Yousuf Khan described the background and history of Mobile Monday and briefly gave a presentation about the activities done so far under this platform. Mr Atif abdul Majeed from R&D Lab described the research and development activities of his lab and also gave a snapshot of some of their projects like COMSCAN(Super fast OMR), Electronic Voting Machine, Data Logger and Remotely monitored & controlled LED lights. He emphasized that there is a lot of potential in the students to develop distinctive projects in the related fields of ICT.
Mr. Zohare Haider from wi-tribe described the background and current state of wi-tribe company and presented the idea of Wi-tribe bazaar (Pakistan’s 1st ‘Buy’ & ‘Sell’ online software bazaar). He said that the intention of wi-tribe bazaar is to support, encourage and proliferate the local IT industry and software developers in particular. Later on, Mr. Ali Fahad and Mr. Luqman Arshad from wi-tribe also joined the discussion and explained that wi-tribe bazaar is a non exclusive platform for software developers where they can share their projects and can sell them to the interested customers. wi-tribe Bazaar is powered by wi-tribe scratch cards, allowing the purchase of software through scratch cards available at over 600 locations throughout Karachi, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Faisalabad. wi-tribe bazaar is also organizing Pakistan developers’ challenge which is a software development competition. They concluded the discussion by thanking Mobile Monday for inviting them and appreciated the efforts made by this platform for organizing activities related to telecommunications and particularly mobile devices.
The session was concluded by a vote of thanks from Mr. Shahid Ansari, head of Technology Incubation Center. He expressed his gratitude for wi-tribe’s participation in this month’s event. wi-tribe team then visited Modeling & Simulation and Antenna Design labs and appreciated the advanced level facilities provided by COMSATS to its students.