Since the two mad Pakistanis who have come up with ‘Ideas Hut’ happen to be bloggers as well so, they have now got Ideas Hut a place in blogosphere by creating a dedicated Ideas Hut blog.

So, welcome to our blog! Here you will get updates about our project, views about the ideas being discussed along with information regarding their implementation and a lot more. Not to forget all this might get sprinkled by occasional rants as well :)

Assalam o alaikum and Howdy Ladies and Gentlemen. So, I am back to live blogging once again. This time I’m going to live blog 2nd Annual Pakistan Blog Awards.Enjoy!

Salam Netizens, live blogger is in action once again and will be covering the International Social Media Summit live from Karachi, Pakistan, on June 11, 2011 from 9-6pm local time.

Wonder what Social Media Summit is all about? Read further the introduction to it that I have stolen from the summit’s invite email:

“With the sponsorship and assistance of several major technology companies, Intel and Raffles Systems and media partners Newsweek Pakistan, Express Media Group, City89FM, PC World and the U.S. Consulate General in Karachi, Network! Will gather together Pakistan’s top bloggers, Twitterati, netizens and other experts from the local social media scene with bloggers and social media experts from around the world for a day of interactive sessions designed to spark discussion, forge new connections and showcase the positive force that Pakistan’s active social media is.

Three exciting sessions in the morning of the 11th, on Education & Good Governance: Going Digital, Women & Social Activism in the New Media Era, and Monetizing your Social Media Space, will be followed by several breakout workshops throughout the afternoon. The idea of the summit is to enable a collective gathering of people from the Pakistani Blogosphere and how to enable them as well as understand better on bringing about a positive change through social media.

Joining us for the sessions will be prominent international bloggers, Ong Hock Chaun from Malaysia, Hanny K. and Nonandita P. from Indonesia, Rebecca Chiao and Mohamed El Dahshan from Egypt.”

Howdy folks, here I am covering the 8th Conference on Innovation Journalism live from the Stanford University. Expect to read about some interesting talks.

According to IJ-8 ‘s mission:

“….Our handsets are feeding us information from the Net, and it feeds the Net information from us, by us, about us.

We are becoming a part of a growing collective intelligence, which is conscious about space and time. This collective intelligence has an infrastructure: search engines enable people to find information, and social network applications enable communication between people, together enabling people to make collective research, collective reasoning, collective decisions, but also enabling fragmentation of these things, by empowering each single user.

It’s farewell to oblivion, information is no longer forgotten, and the access to information is becoming less of an issue than access to attention…..”

Read more about what IJ-8 is all about here.

As floods play havoc in all the four provinces of Pakistan killing hundreds and affecting millions – different communities work to bring relief to those who have lost their lifetime earnings. The IT community of Pakistan has also started relief drives for the affected. Below are the details of some of the relief drives:

CIO Pakistan Relief Drive

The CIO Pakistan team has raised some money by donating a portion of their salaries, which they plan to send to HR Activist Tahira Abdullah. Should anyone else is be interested in joining hands with the CIO Pakistan team – drop a comment on this post and the CIO Pakistan team will get back to you with details.

CIO Pakistan also offers “Record your Flood Appeal” service that can help support your flood relief efforts by getting the word out. You can view details about it here.

P@SHA Flood Relief Drive

The Pakistan Software Houses Association has also started a relief drive for the flood affected. Details of it can be grabbed here

Apart from these relief drives, Pakistan Changemakers Hub is regularly posting updates related to Flood Relief. They along with some other tech-enthusiasts have also set up a Wiki with information relevant to floods in Pakistan. The Wiki is accessible at: http://pakistan.wikia.com/wiki/Floods_2010

Seems like this weekend will be spent live blogging! :) I’m at the Wi-Tribe Mini Bloggers Meetup today, which has been organized at Ciao and I will be covering it live here. Wi-Tribe plans to make it casual meet-up and not like other corporate events – let’s see how it turns out to be!

Hey dear readers, here I’m covering Pakistan’s first blog awards hosted by CIO Pakistan and Google Pakistan. Stay tuned to get minute by minute updates.

All the photographs here are by Jamal Ashqain also known as Jamash!

Ideas Hut blog has been mostly used to bring to you live coverage of different Tech events. This time, the event to be live blogged is one of its kind and is dedicated to women entrepreneurs from different sectors.

Historically, majority of women in Pakistan have had no form of savings other than their jewelry. Culturally, they have kept their money in gold or cash and if the latter, are often tempted to spend it. In addition, many have not kept it in banks for fear of interest (riba) and/or they have lost money in the past through fraudulent schemes. For this reason, LADIESFUNDâ„¢ is available in Shariah-compliant investment advisory services as well as capital protected structures.
LADIESFUND™ is Dawood Capital Management Ltd.’s way of enabling women to have a financial savings plan in which they make routine payments, where they can slowly but surely build a nest egg for themselves. Some LADIESFUND™ investors have for the first time in their life been able to buy a substantial purchase for themselves or a gift for their spouse with their own money because routine savings adds up.

LADIESFUNDâ„¢ Women’s Entrepreneurship Awards builds on this concept and honors women who are making a difference with their lives, both for themselves and for others. This unique forum provides like-minded individuals with the great opportunity for them to network, and more importantly find kindred spirits.

The 2nd LADIESFUND™ Women’s Entrepreneurship Awards are to be held on 12th March 2010, at the Mohatta Palace Museum to celebrate the excellence of outstanding women entrepreneurs of Pakistan. The awards will be attended by leading women from all walks of life.

The chief guests at this year’s awards ceremony will be Ms. Nasreen Jalil & Ms. Khushbakht Shujat.Elite panel of judges for the awards includes Barrister Shahida Jamil, Ms. Frieha Altaf, Ms. Ameena Saiyid, Ms. Sameera Raja and Ms. Rehana Saigol, who will be selecting exceptional Pakistani women. These special women will be honored with prizes for their outstanding achievements and vision as entrepreneurs.

The 2010 Award categories and their respective criteria can be viewed here.

For live coverage of the awards ceremony, check out this space on Friday 12th March, 3:15 PM PST (Pakistan Standard Time GMT +5)

So, here comes a surprise, this time yours truly is blogging from LAHORE! :P You can find the details of the event here

As always yours truly will be there today at the Dine-Up organized by CIO Pakistan, Google Pakistan and Dell, to provide you with the live coverage of the event. However, I’ll be going there a little late because of some commitments at work and till I reach someone else will be caught to live blog – let’s see who’s the lucky one (or perhaps no one :P) ;)

Here goes the live coverage of P@SHA ICT Awards 2009 being held at Sheraton Karachi