A device resembling a credit card swiper is revolutionising some of Egypt's politically explosive bread lines and may help achieve the impossible - cutting crippling food import bills. Authorities who…
A new world is emerging as the era of Washington consensus has ended on the back of Covid-19. The pandemic did not cause the demise of the consensus, it only…
THE PTI government completes three years in power this month. At the end of this period, some harsh facts stand out in clear light against the haze of political spin.…
A government’s performance at the end of a calendar year is usually measured in numbers – particularly the data about macro-economic indicators such as growth in GDP, fiscal deficit, current…
The writer is an independent education researcher and consultant. She has a PhD in Education from Michigan State University. As we entered August, Covid-19 test positivity rates (the percentage of…
Bombs and guns aside, a smartphone can be a powerful weapon in the hands of a terrorist - but it can also provide intelligence services with the tools to track…
Every year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, home appliances get more wired and the functions get fancier. But what's really smart for the smart home of the…
Power is nothing more than the ability to get others to do what you want. For doing that you require tools of coercion or payment, or ‘hard power’, and tools…
One of the mistakes multinational companies make is to look at countries as either 'developed' or 'developing', and then try to shoehorn a product or solution into that country that…
According to the latest data available on the website of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), as on December 31, 2023, total number of SIMs issued was 189 million (78.93% mobile teledensity);…
