Pakistan Innovation Foundation (PIF) announced Pakistans First National Innovation Awards at its second annual Pakistan Innovation Forum 2015 on December 9th, 2o15. The Conference, titled MAKE IN PAKISTAN, sought to showcase and promote individuals and institutions who had built something from scratch in Pakistan. The Conference also organized Pakistans first Innovation and Makers Showcase in...
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Perfidy in the blood
As children, we are brought up to believe that the home is a safe haven we share with our parents and siblings, and perhaps even extended family and a few pets; it is a place where we are reared, cared for and protected so we have the opportunity to become the best version of ourselves....
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Painting the World Orange!
The last one century or so has witnessed women make great strides when it comes to freedom of speech, expression and movement. Starting with women having no say in socio-economic or political spheres of society; even when ironically, history is replete with examples how many an absolute monarch (female) helmed states globally, navigating through troubled...
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Spotting the Glass Cliff
We have all heard of the proverbial glass ceiling which is a term coined by Katherine Lawrence and Maryann Schreiber of Hewlett-Packard in 1979 at the National Press Club during a discussion at the Conference of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. The glass ceiling refers to a perceived barrier in the corporate...
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Launching lives with KiteChild
All around us are people who need help, but not everyone believes they can be of help, or are capable of making a difference even in just one strangers life. And while the boxes we slowly build around us as we go through life perfectly serve their purpose of boxing us in, the people behind...
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Islamabads first ever #GirlsAtDhabas Meetup
In the midst of Pakistans political affairs hub, a group of 11 working women ambitiously gathered at a local dhaba (a small tea shop traditionally considered a mens-only place) to support and participate in a brilliant movement #GirlsAtDhabas to reclaim public spaces for women as they hope to change the mindset and reclaim Pakistans public spaces. The...
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Celebrating the #DayOfTheGirl
International Day of the Girl Child (Day of the Girl) is celebrated annually on October 11 to highlight issues concerning gender inequality facing young girls. This years theme is The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030. There are nearly 600 million girls aged 10 to 19 in the world today, each with limitless...
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Empowering the girl child through tech
Today an estimated 122 million youth are illiterate globally, out of which 60.7 percent are young women according to a UNESCO report. More than 1.3 billion people live in abject poverty and then there is also the current devastating refugee situation the world over from Syria to Burma, among the numerous issues afflicting mankind. All...
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Smashing the Glass Ceilings
Equal participation of both men and women in the economic activity of a country is critical not only for sustainable development, but for a balanced and equitable society. Although this a fact already acknowledged universally, there still exists a disparity between awareness and reality. A number of companies have begun to realize that empowering women...
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The trade of gendered vulnerabilities
Theres a reason why Liam Neesons movie Taken has captured our attention as its terrifying premise of losing ones daughter to a powerful international human trafficking syndicate hits a raw nerve in every parents mind. And while we would like to think that the government is doing its job to protect its citizens, news of...