Annual Report 2010 - Comsats

Update on Islamic World Science Net (IWSN)
The web-portal ‘ Islamic World Science Net (IWSN)’ is a joint project of COMSATS and
ISESCO, developed and launched by COMSATS in 2007, to enhance networking and
cooperation among S&T researchers and scientific community in Islamic Countries.
Since its launching, COMSATS’ dedicated team is constantly updating and
maintaining the web-portal to serve the need of networking of ever-increasing number
of scientists from OIC member countries, in particular.
The web-portal is a useful source of information for the scientific community of the
world, which contains S&T profiles of fifty seven (57) OIC member countries, as well
as information of 674 R&D institutes, and profiles of 771 universities and 19
academies of sciences in these countries. The S&T profiles comprise fifty eight (58)
scientific indicators under nine main categories, i.e. general, scientific, economic,
educational, agricultural, industrial, environmental, telecommunication and
healthcare indicators. Moreover, the web-portal is also hosting a databank of CVs of
scientists, and a number of publications including research references, science
journals and research papers.
At present, IWSN has one thousand and eleven (1011) registered members in its
thirteen (13) ‘Virtual Scientific Thematic Groups’. The break-up of the membership of
the thematic groups of IWSN is as follows:
Annual Report 2010
Changes were made/incorporated by COMSATS’ technical team on the web-portal
as per the requisitions made by ISESCO in accordance with the cooperative
agreement reached by the collaborating partners on June 24, 2010.
88