Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS)
September 28 2011 2011
COMSATS initiated its Telehealth Services in Zhob, Balochistan, with effect from 28th September 2011. As a part of COMSATS’ efforts to expand its Tele-health programme to enable greater access to medical specialists from the main cities/hospitals to the communities living in far-flung areas, COMSATS in collaboration with Human Development Foundation (HDF), has setup the first …
September 26 2011 2011
The 10th CTWF International Training Workshop on ‘Regional Climate Change and its Impact Assessment’ was held in Beijing, China, on September 26-29, 2011. The 4-days Workshop was jointly organized by the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) and CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum on Climate Science (CTWF). The United Nations Educational, Scientific and …
September 20 2011 2011
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani received a presentation by the Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. Imtinan Elahi Qureshi, at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat in Islamabad on 20th September 2011. Also present on the occasion were the Minister for Science and Technology, H.E. Mr. Changez Khan Jamali, Federal Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, …
August 03 2011 2011
On August 03, 2011, Mr. Akhlaq Ahmad Tarar, Federal Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Government of Pakistan (GoP), visited COMSATS Headquarters, Islamabad. The primary objective of Federal Secretary’s visit was to hold a meeting with the Executive Director COMSATS, Dr. I. E. Qureshi, to receive a briefing on the recently drafted Science, Technology …
July 30 2011 2011
A one-day awareness and advocacy seminar on “Use of Information and Communication Technology in Pakistan Healthcare Setup” was held by the eHealth Association of Pakistan (eHAP) in Lahore, on 30th July 2011. The seminar was organized in collaboration with the University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore. Dr. Asad Ashraf, Member of Provincial Assembly, Punjab and …
July 27 2011 2011
A five-day international training workshop on “Internet Security: Enhancing Information Exchange Safeguards” organized by the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) was successfully concluded in Damascus, Syria, on 27th July 2011. The Workshop has been organized in collaboration with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO); the Inter-Islamic …
July 26 2011 2011
The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad Campus, jointly, organized the First Meeting of Sub-group on ‘Green Technology’ under COMSATS’ Thematic Research Group on ‘Climate Change and Environmental Protection’, on July 26, 2011, at CIIT (Abbottabad Campus), Pakistan. The meeting was …
July 21 2011 2011
On July 21, 2011, Mr. Akhlaq Ahmad Tarar, Federal Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Government of Pakistan, visited COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, to attend a briefing on CIIT’s role as a higher education institute in Pakistan, evaluate the research and teaching facilities available at the Institute, and to hold meetings …
July 20 2011 2011
A national training workshop on “Digital Library using Open Source Software” was organized by eHealth Association of Pakistan (eHAP) at the Secretariat of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), Islamabad. The workshop was supported by COMSATS Secretariat, COMSATS Internet Services (CIS), DlnetSA, and LISolutions. Librarians and I.T professionals …
June 30 2011 2011
On June 30, 2011, a historical announcement was made by Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, Director International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS). Ten years after the first human genome was sequenced, the first Pakistani genome has been mapped using a newly developed massively parallel DNA sequencing technology. Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (Fellow of Royal …
