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Democracy is vital and powerful political source in major countries and for the established and development of democracy, elections are being practiced. Pakistan is a democratic country and still practicing the manual and expensive methods for election. That causes slow procedure, bogus entries, counting errors, misuse of ballot papers, and serious security, accessibility, and reliability faults....
In this modern age, as time passes new emerging technologies, cyber services have been introduced. In this regard, most of the developing countries have deployed and implemented these technologies and services Such as: e Banking, eCommerce and eBusiness in their countries. Pakistan is also one of these developing countries, who has implemented and currently using for the citizen, users, businessmen...
Advanced and rapid developments in the field of computer and wireless technologies makes easy and possible to be a direct part of electronic media. Social media is an attractive, informative, useful, and approachable way to get information. In last few years, there is an increase observed in the smartphone, smart tablet, and wireless broadband market in Pakistan. It is because of the popularity of...
The 2013 Pakistan General Election was as a democratic milestone in the nation's troubled political history which also witnessed the rise of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI, under its leader Imran Khan), from its marginal status to a formidable political status. This study focuses on the first ever Twitter campaign by Pakistani political parties to mobilize, inform and engage voters during the elections...
This paper aims to perform SWOT analysis of the mobile telecom sector in Pakistan. Detailed study has been carried out by conducting surveys with subjects having different backgrounds and belonging to different professions, regions and age groups. A comparative study of the mobile networks presently operating in Pakistan has been performed. It is found that telecom sector has significant potential...
The correlation between information and communication technology (ICT), and economic growth is well-known and its use for development is already an established goal by UN in the developing countries. Its use in Pakistani villages where approximately 70% of the population presents many challenges such as lack of connectivity, education and electricity. The planners should not only provide high speed...
Human resource management and development in education involves building professional skills in all the stakeholders such as students, teachers and administrators on regular basis. This paper focuses on main areas of human resource management in Education for a developing country like Pakistan. Firstly, it will discuss the human resource management in the process of change in an educational institution...
Governments worldwide are increasingly becoming aware of the importance of employing e-government to improve the delivery of public services to the people. E-government readiness index is a composite measurement of the capacity and willingness of countries to use e-government for ICT-led development. This paper analyzes the Global e-Government readiness with a focus on e-Government Readiness Index...
Pakistan is a country of varied culture and people. One can find people on extreme ends of social set-ups. People who enjoy a lavish life and at the same time people who are living below the poverty line. When it comes to children, we all want them to have the best of everything, but unfortunately due to the financial imbalance in the society many under privileged children who are intelligent, bright...
The main objective of this paper to enhance the entire supply chain of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan, and to examine the SMEs in Pakistan and how the SMEs adopt their way of undertaking business from traditional practice to e-business? Implementation of supply chain management will lower costs and increase efficiency and thus lead to the significant gain for SMEs. The Supply...
Development in information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to provide affordable and accessible Tele-healthcare services in developing countries. In rural and remote areas of Pakistan, lady health workers (LHWs) are the main source of healthcare provision. This paper presents a model for providing tele-healthcare services using web and mobile phone based technologies to rural...
EGovernment promises efficient, effective and digital access to public services through a digital medium such as the Internet. However, with the passage of time it is realised that the Internet cannot be the only medium for electronic public service delivery for technologically less developed countries. A number of hybrid offline and online strategies are coming out of developing countries as an alternative...
Over past decade mobile communications witnessed phenomenal diffusion around globe including developing countries, but internet diffusion and usage remains low among later. By comparing cases of mature mobile and lagging Internet markets in Pakistan, this paper tries to dig out why institutions and instruments for competition are unable to perform similarly for disparate technologies in developing...
Higher education institutes (HEIs) are believed as catalyst for the economic progress of any country particularly and for the whole world generally. This study analyses ICT (Information and communication technology)-based teaching and learning issues at Pakistani higher education (HE) level and efforts to devise a strategy as solution to those issues as a result. Using normative Delphi method which...
Higher education institutes (HEIs) are believed as catalyst for the economic progress of any country particularly and for the whole world generally. This study analyses ICT (Information and communication technology) -based teaching and learning issues at Pakistani higher education (HE) level and efforts to devise a strategy as solution to those issues as a result. Using normative Delphi method which...
Pakistan has a population of over 160 million people out which nearly 30% people comprise of young boys and girls who need to select various academic majors after completion of their high school studies. Development of technologies, businesses and other fields leads to in difficulty in decision making for career selection for these youngsters. Present research is focused on evaluating the performance...
Terrorism has emerged as an immediate and most potent threat to the free world in the post September 11, 2001 years, because of its real and potential damage to the infrastructure, economy and people. In response to this thereat, developed and developing countries, such as USA and Pakistan, have emerged as front line states in the fight against terrorism with the following objectives; i) prevent future...
The three driving forces for the Internet savvy generation are broadband, wireless and mobility. Currently, WiMAX combines the first two attributes while 3G supports first and last effectively. This paper discusses the next generation technology move for the 2G-GSM operators of Pakistan. It provides technical and business justification why 3G alone or WiMAX alone will not be a winning strategy for...
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