Annual Report 2010 - Comsats

COMSATS’ Participation in the International Training Workshop in
China
Mr. Nisar Ahmad, Sr. Assistant Director (Systems) of COMSATS Secretariat attended
the 'International Training Workshop on ‘Information Technology and its Application',
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in Shanghai, China, from 10 to 30 June 2010. The Workshop was organized by the
Ministry of Science and Technology of China as a part of its international cooperation
with developing countries. Fifteen participants from seven countries, including
Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam attended the
Workshop. Country reports were presented by the participants, one for each country.
Pakistan's country-report was jointly
presented by Mr. Ahmad and Mr. Attiqu-ur-
Rehman of COMSATS Institute of
Information Technology (CIIT). It included
an overview of the status of Information
Technology (IT) in Pakistan with a brief
introduction of COMSATS.
The training workshop comprised various
lectures and training sessions conducted
by subject experts, followed by question
and answer sessions. The topics of
lectures delivered included: 'City
Informatization Development and Future';
'An introduction of Information Security System'; 'Introduction to Optical Fiber and
Optical Fiber Cables'; 'Basis of Strategic IS Planning'; 'ERP in China'; and ‘Easypano
Software & City8 Street View System'.
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In addition to these lectures and orientation sessions, visits to
organizations/institutions, working for developing IT-related solutions were arranged.
These included visits to Shanghai Super-Computer Centre (SSC), HANGTONG
Group, as well as ShanghaiAnimation Valley.
The Workshop provided a good opportunity to share new ideas and technologies
being developed and tested. These included: SMART Grid, GIS for water
conservation, smart chair, anti-temper software, hardware-security, internal IT audit,
E-court, mobile court, remote computers, UNITAR, Shanghai Open Student Lab
(OSL), and Shanda Literature web-portal.
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