Keep us updated please as to how its coming along and if he requires any assistance

@Mudassir

In the last decade there has been a huge flow of outsourcing to Pakistan in IT, but certainly there is a greater scope as the discipline matures there. I like your point about importing stuff from Facebook, linkedin etc.

This is an excellent idea if its carried out carefully and thoughtfully. It would need a lot of advertisement for sure but a good professional website is a must to get people to notice. There are so many Pakistani entrepreneurs outside of Pakistan who would want to outsource work to Pakistanis. However, the trend we see repeatedly is that it just doesn’t work out for them for reasons such as non professional work ethics and demanding too much for too little. On the other hand, our Indian counterparts are much ahead of us in presenting themselves. However, I think we have a great edge over them language wise.

So the bottom line is, if there’s a well known website that you could go to and compare people’s profiles that would be a great plus point. For those who already have profiles on facebook or linked in but are too lazy to create another one, why not let them import it over or simply provide a link.

Around a month or so ago I got to talk to one of the acquaintances and came to know that he’s working on something similar to this idea so, yes this idea is being worked upon, however, haven’t yet checked out any updates regarding implementation. I shall ask the guy to share some details with the readers here when i get to talk to him again!

It should be very easy to get free lanced/outsource projects, as, for instance, we can even use the site as a proxy — that’s not a problem,

I dont think it would require much financial capital as much as human capital (to get the show on the road).

I am not sure if starting of with “Professionals Network of Pakistan” is wise. Lets focus on one thing. If needed, we can expland later and make Pak IT Network as a subordinate of the bigger network.

So if here is any investor there keep in touch and all of the IT professionals like Developers, Analysts and Designers should participate. I will send my idea very soon with all the initial details. I hope you would like inshallah.

email: hasnatkool@hotmail.com

Regards,
Hasnat Bokhari

Regards
Muhammad Tariq

I have seen this little community discussing ideas which you guys think are required, but due to some financial or technical reasons no-body yet have offered to develop such thing. :)

you guys think its realy a need of time, for Pakistani people or for whole world.

some guys have been found saying that Facebook and Linkedin covers all the things. I feel them right at the same time because of their thinking level which is still not broad enough to think at thatspecific point. i am sorry if you guys feel it like criticizing.

i am here to solve or try to solve this need, i wish if i can help in a way to develop this thing, or if somebody have an idea of features then i am ready to help in its any stage.

regards,

Derwaish

My issue is why create a platform when we can use existing web sites e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn etc. Groups on these sites can serve the requirements.

As a user, I don’t want to sign up again for another website.

Make a profile all over again. Then copy paste my contacts to make them come to that site and provide value to network.

I don’t know why in Pakistan everything needs to be started from scratch and gets abandoned. You can look on classified sites of Pakistan there are so many, yet they don’t have any good content.

So an IT Professionals (interest group) network for Pakistan (a specific region)…makes GREAT sense. It will add enormous value IF it is adopted by the community of professionals it is targeting.

Facebook is not just for IT professionals and if it provides any of the features discussed in this idea for e.g. freelance job board etc. that is through forming groups. Do you think a facebook group can serve the purpose similar to that of Rent a Coder perhaps (if we consider just the job board it provides and not the entire system that includes payment system etc. as well)?
LinkedIn is also to make an online professional network but can we find the information about all Pakistani IT shops there?
Our main purpose behind proposing this idea to have a network for the Pakistani IT professionals so that the world may know the single point of getting in touch with the brilliant professionals we have here.

Welcome to Ideas Hut Yousuf..read your comments on another idea too. They are really insightful so, keep them coming.
Just checked out Zumbeel, the ‘Networking’ feature there can perhaps be somehow related to the idea being discussed here otherwise I don’t see any similarity between Zumbeel and ‘IT Professionals Network’ idea. Am I missing something?
Zumbeel seems to cater to just the telecom sector.

http://www.zumbeel.net

You are absolutely right Qasim, in order to justify the amount of effort we spend implementing any idea, we need to figure out how much value it adds to our current set up.

a) With majority (if not all) IT professionals of Pakistan at one place, the world would be able to know better about our talent pool
b) Anyone from anywhere in the world can hire professionals (preferably as freelancers…we don’t really want brain drain :P) depending upon the requirements of their projects. Since I’m hoping that individuals on this network will have the option to either work onthe project themeselves or get it done in their companies….so this will lead to more outsourcing. This eventually will benefit the country because Outsourcing = Shifting of Power and actually Shifting of Power to East :)

My brain is evaluating this idea for the past few days and this is what I think about it…,however, I’d keep you posted if anything else also comes to my mind :)