With Slide Compliments from HEC Pakistan

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Moving Pakistan into the Global Community via
Networking

• Arshad Ali
• Nationaol University of Sciences Technology
  (NUST) Pakistan

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China
Pakistan-China silk trade route
Afghanistan
Kashmir
Islamabad
Dr Abdus Salam Nobel Laureate, Founder of ICTP
Trieste, Italy
Lahore
Quetta
Multan
Iran
India

• 2nd Highest peak K-2
• Oldest Indus Civilization

Karachi
Arabian Sea
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Pakistan (little known facts)

• Capital Islamabad
• Languages
• English (official)
• Urdu (national)
• 167 million people
• Universities Over 120
• Education budget being doubled since 2001
• World highest telecom growth sector
• Over Twelve million internet users

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Living in a Changing World
Science and Technology are the great dividers
---the rich are getting richer and the poor,
poorer World is inflicted with poverty,
hunger, disease, conflicts, violence, economic
uncertainty
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Solution ?
EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Why Science and Technology?
Science can help feed the hungry, heal the sick,
contribute to poverty alleviation, protect the
environment, provide dignity of labour, and
unleash the creative talents of our youth by
fostering innovation and entrepreneurship,
resulting in a satisfying and joyful life
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Challenges of a Changing World----- Innovation
Determines Progress

• New biology is decoding the blue print of life,
  learning to manage the placement and expression
  of genes and mobilizing microorganisms to do our
  work for the production of new products
• New innovations are altering and expanding the
  notions of development.
• the only constant is change !!

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VISION
Socio-economic development is no longer
dependent on natural resources (eg.Japan,
European countries) KNOWLEDGE has now become the
main driving force of world economies and hence
the basis of socio-economic development INDUSTRIA
LIZATION is the key to high GDP growth (through
innovation / production of high value-added goods
(engineering goods, pharmaceuticals, IT,
Biotechnology, etc.)
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Overarching Approach in Pakistan

• Simultaneous Bi-Modal Approach Required
• Bottom-Up
• Basic Health, Primary Education, Water .
• Top-Down
• Higher Education
• Emphasis on Science Technology
• Industrial Linkages

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Impact of just one institution----MIT

• MIT graduates and faculty have founded 4000
  companies
• Employ 1.1 million people
• Annual Sales 232 billion
• Collectively these companies are the 24th largest
  economy in the World!
• Same is true for Cambridge, Stanford and others

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Typical UniversityDeveloping Countries
Student
Professional
University

• Ethics ?
• Creativity ?
• Independent thinking ?
• Ability to apply knowledge ?

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University Role in National Development
Knowledge Base
Develop Social
Tax and Financial
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Pakistan---A Promising Program

• 100 million below age 25 !! ( 66 population)
• Higher Education / ST budget increased several
  thousand percent in 4 years
• A 15 year Vision/ Strategy/ Action Plan prepared
  and programs launched
• Full support from Government in drive to develop
  a K Economy

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HEC Plan of Action ACCESS / QUALITY / RELEVANCE

• Faculty Development
• Infrastructure (Free Access to Literature Free
  Access to Sophisticated Instruments, Technology
  Assisted Learning)
• Focused Support in Key Areas
• Quality Assurance
• Linkages to the Economy

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STRATEGY

• 1) BASIC SCIENCES
• Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Biology)
• 2) APPLIED SCIENCES
• (Engineering, Agricultural sciences,
  Biotechnology, Information Technology,
  Pharmaceuticals, New Materials, Communications,
  Renewable Energy)
• 3) SOCIAL SCIENCES
• 4) ECONOMICS, FINANCE, MANAGEMENT
• 5) LINKAGES WITH INDUSTRY
• 6) EMPHASIS ON K-ECONOMY---HIGH TECH
  INDUSTRY!!

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Attracting the Brightest!

• Change in Salary Structures---under Tenure
  Track system salaries of Professors raised to 3
  times of Federal Ministers in government!
• Research Productivity Allowance----based on
  Cumulative Impact Factors during the preceding
  year
• Reversing the Brain Drain----under Foreign
  Faculty Hiring Program 470 eminent
  expatriate/other scientists attracted to return
  to Pakistan

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Attracting the Brightest!

• Research Funding (upto US 600,000 per
  international linkage program)
• Guaranteed Jobs to fresh Ph.Ds with higher salary
  structures under tenure track system
• 75 Reduction of Income Tax for all academics

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Training the Brightest!

• Massive Foreign scholarship programs
  initiated---500-1000 students being sent abroad
  annually to top universities in Europe, USA,
  China with guaranteed high salary jobs and
  research grants of US 100,000
• Indigenous Ph.D. programs---expansion of the
  existing Ph.D. output to 1500 per year
• Huge Local Scholarship Programs for Undergraduate
  level studies initiated---Rs.1 Billion to be
  spent!

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Training the Brightest!

• Local PhDs being offered opportunities for
  postdoctoral training in top foreign institutions
  (hundreds being sent)
• Linkages being established with top Western
  Institutions---50 with British Universities
  alone, many others
• US 150 million Fulbright program for MS/Ph.D.
  level training in top universities with USA

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Using Technology to Leap-Frog!

• Pakistan Educational Research Network
• Digital Library Program
• PAKSAT 1 (Pakistans Educational Satellite)
• Pakistans International Video-conferencing
  Network

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The IT Strategy
Service to the Citizens
High capacity, reliable and accessible
communications
s and Eabling enviroment
Laws and enabling environment
IT Education

• And an environment that stimulates creativity and
  welcomes advances in the use of Information
  Technology

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From 40 to 2000 Cities on Optical Fibre
(2000-2007)
SDH/PDH (525/622 Mb/s) backbone being upgraded to
DWDM 10 Gb/s

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Internet user growth
June 2000 130,000 Oct 2006 gt12 million
Actual users more than 12 Million!
Dial up
Start point
Today
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Plummeting costs.
June 2000 US 87,000/E1 August 2001 US
6,000 October 2004 US 3,800
Now US 950 per month/2 Mb/s !
Start point
Today
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PERN
Pakistan Education Research Network
Core Network Nodes 03 Total Universities
56 (16 OFS, 22 DXX, 17 DRS, 1 VSAT)
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Pakistan Education and Research Network

• Information highway exclusively for universities
• Promote collaborative research and the sharing of
  domain knowledge
• Platform for launching aggressive distance
  education programs
• Platform for Digital Library service for all
  universities

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Digital Library

• 22,000 full text journalsnation-wide,
  free-of-charge to universities!!! HEC Pays
• Over 12 million articles downloaded in 2006 !!
• Almost 300,000 end users trained nationwide
• One Window Search Engine
• Web of Science, Scifinder Scholar, EMBASE, IEEE,
  Chem/Biol.Abstracts etc.

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Virtual University

• 4 Digital Satellite (PAKSAT-1) TV Channels for
  content delivery (License for 2 granted)
• Satellite Earth Station
• 2 Recording Studios
• Potential for providing high quality training in
  remote areas of Pakistan

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International Video Lecturing Program

• Using Technology to Overcome
• Faculty Shortage
• Cost of Travel
• Nation-wide Lecture Series---Access to
  world-class Faculty!!
• 4,000 International Lectures committed

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International Video-lecturing Program

• High quality video-conferencing equipment
  installed in Universities
• Series of international lectures (nation-wide) by
  Nobel Laureates and top professors from leading
  universities in USA, Europe, Japan etc. from
  November 2006
• 4000 Lectures arranged !!!

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Supporting Private Sector Education

• Matching grants for new institutions
• Major funds for development
• Land on long term lease
• Sharing faculty salaries
• Access to Digital Library
• Access to Research Funding

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Innovation/Entrepreneurship

• Impregnating Innovation/ Entrepreneurship in
  University programs
• STED Access to Venture Capital
• Technology Parks/Business Incubators
• Islamabad Technology Estate

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Establishment of New Engineering, Science
Technology Universities (UESTP)
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Partner Countries

• France
• Sweden
• Germany
• Austria
• Italy
• Netherlands
• China
• South Korea
• Japan

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Demographic Changes in Europe A Major
Opportunity !

• Diminishing younger populations of scientists
  engineers in Europe
• Companies looking for countries with high
  engineering skill base/lower manpower costs to
  outsource future high tech industries
• A major opportunity for Europe, if they can have
  highly qualified science engineering manpower
  trained to top standards

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UESTP Concept

• Consortium of leading European Universities with
  one as lead university---4,500 of our brightest
  students being sent for MS/PhD
• Rectors, Deans, Heads of Departments and 75-25
  faculty from partner country
• Examination /Quality assurance controlled by
  European universities
• Complete equivalence
• Degrees from top European Universities in
  Pakistan !!!
• Classes commence in 2007/2008 !!

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Benefits to Foreign Partners

• Availability of pool of well trained scientific
  HR for expansion of partner countrys industry in
  Pakistan and make it globally competitive
• Access to Pakistans large and expanding market
  (167 Million People).
• Will help foreign countries to remain globally
  competitive----with access to manpower trained to
  their best standards

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Impact Case Study
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NUST Institute of Information Technology

• Established in late 1999
• Commenced operations by conducting short courses
  in rented residential premises
• Now offer three UG, MS and PhD programs

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International Research Collaboration

• CERN Geneva --- Associate Institute of CMS, 21
  Students and five faculty visited CERN for joint
  research projects
• UWE UK --- 18 Students undergoing joint research
  supervision at NIIT and UWE under EU and other
  funding arrangements
• Caltech USA --- 12 Students and Faculty visited
  Caltech for collaborative research under Pak-US
  scientific collaboration
• Stanford (SLAC) USA --- 9 Students and faculty
  visited SLAC under Pak-US scientific
  collaboration

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International Research Collaboration

• Comtec Japan --- 80 Research transferred at
  NIIT- NUST, Open Source software Jointly
  developed by COMTEC and NUST being taught in Five
  Japanese, Two US and one French Universities
• EPFL Switzerland, Brain Mind Institute 8
  students carrying out research at EPFL under
  joint funding from EPFL and NUST

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VRVS (Version 3) Meeting in 8 Time Zones
Caltech(US)
Japan
RAL (UK)
AMPATH(US)
CERN
Brazil
Canada
AMPATH(US)
78 Reflectors Deployed Worldwide Users in 96
Countries
Pakistan
Stanford
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Local Industry Projects

• SCADA System for Rastgar Pvt Limited Islamabad
• Loom Monitoring System for Gul Ahmed Textile
  Karachi
• Mil Standard 1553 databus controller for Nextek
  Islamabad
• RFID based Library inventory management system
  for Pakistani Universities Libraries

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INDUSTRY SPONSORED LABS AT NIIT

• NCR established their Dataware housing and
  Datamining lab at NIIT
• IBM Open Source Resource Center --- Hardware
  including E-server, Web Sphere Server, Lotus
  Exchange Server Donated
• INTEL established a state-of-the-art computer
  lab at NIIT
• CISCO local academy program partner for
  delivering CCNA/CCNP courseware

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Results

• Many fold increase in ISI (Institute of
  Scientific Information) abstracted publications
  over last 3 years----rate of increase highest in
  Islamic world
• Young men and women have started opting to adopt
  careers in ST subjects as first choice (about
  30 female at NIIT)
• Landscape of Universities has begun to change

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Pakistan Research Output 2001-2006
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Independent Review of HEC(World Bank)

• A Silent Revolution
• Promising debut HEC has launched its attack on
  the twin challenge of access and excellence
• The HEC launched an unprecedented number of
  systemic reforms. These positive reforms already
  have benefited the universities

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International Applause

• Editorial in Nature ----29th January 2004
• Rahman has convinced Musharraf and a deluge
  of
• money and new initiatives has poured out.
  Ministry of Science
• and Technologys annual budget has increased 60
  fold
• compared with 1999 researchers have an
  opportunity to more
• than double their earnings if they publish more
  in peer-
• reviewed journals funds have been released for
  many more
• Ph.Ds. to be trained at home and abroad plans
  are well under
• way for a free digital library for all
  educational institutions
• there is a new scheme to attract researchers from
  overseas to work in Pakistan----------------------
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Real Wealth--

• Our Children----with a population of 167 million,
  about a 100 million below the age of 25, Pakistan
  is blessed with a huge pool of talent and
  creativity
• Challenge is to empower them with quality
  education and skills----and provide them
  opportunities to contribute to the process of
  socio-economic development

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Education, Education, Higher Education
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Thanks