Pakistan.PK, National Rabta Online Portal, has been visited by 150,000 visitors with-in its first two months. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had developed and launched an exclusive online information portal (www.pakistan.pk) on 13th December 2010. Pakistan.PK acts as a single source of information and a content repository to residents, visitors and International communities. The visitor’s statistics available at the portal speaks for its upbeat success during [...]

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Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are the domain names (or simply websites name) represented by local language characters. Present domain name architecture is based on ASCII characters (the English alphabets "a-z", numbers 0 to 9, and hyphens) and doesn’t interpret non-ASCII character scripts (like Arabic, Hindi, Chinese). IDNs efforts are subject to ICANN resolution in 2000 stating “that it is important that the Internet evolve to [...]

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Policy makers are developing strategies to maintain and enhance their position in the new knowledge-based economy era. World Bank Institute is supporting an initiative called Knowledge for Development (K4D) Program to help countries identify challenges and opportunities they face in making this transition towards a knowledge-based economy. In this regard an interactive tool known as Knowledge Assessment Methodology (KAM) is developed to assess the present [...]

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Internet without any doubt has become an important part of our daily life routine. Every segment of a society especially professionals, students, kids and even senior citizens browse around this amazing sphere of ‘networks of networks’ as per their interest of usage. From sending a simple text e-mail to viewing streaming movie video, Internet is there behind the scene. Pingdom, an Internet research company has [...]

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The revolution of ICTs has fundamentally changed societies and sectors and would probably continue to do so in the foreseeable future. These developments on one side of the coin have given shape to unprecedented economic and social development, however they have also given birth to new type of crimes called ‘Cyber Crimes’. These types of threats are more vulnerable in a sense that they are [...]

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The revolution of Information and Communication Technologies has given their countless advantages to all spheres of a society. They not only have opened new ways to do business for enterprises but also invited the public sector organizations; to bridge gaps between citizens and Government. The Internet which stands as a primary communication medium of today’s electronic age is surely the catalyst behind improving Government information [...]

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