Digital Pakistan
Al Baraka Bank (Pakistan) Limited and NIFT signed an MOU agreement that will enable ABPL to provide domestic online/e-commerce services to its customers using the “NIFT ePay” platform. The signing ceremony recently took place at Al Baraka Pakistan’s Head Office and was signed by Mr. Ahmed Shuja Kidwai – CEO Al Baraka Bank Pakistan, and […]
Startup Weekend Karachi will be taking place virtually from December 18-20, 2020. Startup Weekend is a three-day program where aspiring entrepreneurs experience the process of converting their ideas into workable business models. NIC Karachi, Stimulus Private Limited, and SZABIST Karachi have joined hands as strategic partners for the event. The event takes place all over […]
Careem, the Super App of the greater Middle East and Pakistan has announced to slash its restaurant commission fees to 5% with the second wave of COVID-19 hitting Pakistan and the closure of indoor dine-in. This announcement was made on Careem’s social media assets encouraging people to order more. The reduction in commission fees will […]
The online Civic Hackathon 2020, organized and presented by Telenor Pakistan, Code for Pakistan, and OPEN Islamabad was successfully concluded on Sunday. The Civic Hackathon brought together a mix of technologists, designers, urban planners, social scientists, NGOs and CSOs, and government, to approach and solve problems digitally. It was Code for Pakistan’s first-ever virtual hackathon […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pakistan and Jazz have signed a funding agreement worth USD 400,000 to promote youth-led social innovation in Pakistan through a series of SDG Bootcamps across the country. The training boot camps will engage 800 social entrepreneurs in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and ICT/GB/AJK. Given the current COVID-19 crisis, […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life for many, including children in need of lifesaving, routine immunizations. In countries like Pakistan, additional roadblocks as a result of the pandemic have been compounded by an existing hesitancy in some communities to vaccinate children as well as global disruptions to the delivery of immunizations. That’s why Facebook’s Data […]
Smartphone brand Tecno, with its official distributor Muller and Phipps (M&P), is celebrating the ‘one billion sales’ record achieved in November 2020 alone. Tecno joined hands with M&P earlier this year to make it the official distributor which helped Tecno become one of the most sold brands in Pakistan. Both companies celebrated this one billion […]
National Institution Facilitation Technologies (NIFT) recently signed an understanding for collaboration with HashMove (a global multi-modal logistics platform) to facilitate the payment solution for Global Commodities Trading & Multi-Model Logistics Platform. The purpose of this arrangement is to enter into a strategic partnership, enabling the real-time commodities trading and logistics services offered by hundreds and […]
The President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi, has appreciated the Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Dr.Reza Baqir, for leading the initiatives of SBP in the areas of women empowerment through financial inclusion and expanding the landscape of digital payments in the country. He was addressing an online meeting with Governor State Bank of Pakistan […]
OLX, Pakistan’s number one online marketplace, has introduced its auto inspection service under the ‘OLX Autos’ umbrella to facilitate car sellers and buyers residing in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Under the OLX auto inspection service, formerly known as CarPro, a detailed car inspection is carried out supported by a comprehensive post-inspection report […]