Landlords built Lahore in a haphazard way over centuries. They didn’t concern themselves with city grids or sensible mapping. As a result, Lahore is renowned in Pakistan for being almost impossible to navigate. And that’s where Asim Fayaz and Khurram Siddiqi come in. Fayaz and Siddiqi won a $10,000 grant from TED, the U.S.-based foundation […]
SMS-all, previously known as Chopaal, happens to be the pioneer in text based group messaging service in Pakistan. Idrees Butt, company COO tells me that SMS-all now houses over 400,000 established communities, with 1.5 million registered users, 2.5 million users through corporate clients and has exchanged whopping 4 billion text messages on its network till […]
TEDxLahore provided the perfect platform to celebrate and honour the work of Pakistanis who may not have always been in the spotlight. This week, the city of Lahore got under my skin. It wasn’t just the idiosyncrasies and beauty of the city that crept into my resolutely Karachi-heart, but the people that I was able […]
A TEDx organizer says goodbye to apathy and reactive behaviour as she discovers heroes all around her. The upcoming event inspires her to believe that the ‘truth is out there.’ Organizing an event like TEDxLAHORE is no easy feat. Imagine pulling a ship over a mountain with nothing but your inexhaustible belief that you will do this […]
The rapid rise of online social communities in Pakistan, such as Orkut and Facebook, have revamped the concept of pen pal’s to fit the modern 21st century. They have created a new paradigm for personal networking and given valuations in hundreds of millions of dollars to these networks. However, the ‘connection’ provided by these international […]
Sharing emails and interests with your friends has never been this easy and fun, writes Nizar Diamond Ali. The usefulness of email has been realised and extended with mailing lists and groups, and through other similar concepts which are now adopted in telecom industry. One such service is Chopaal (http//chopaal.pk/). This innovative idea of creating […]