12 Responses

1. Bilal Siddiqui

   May 11th, 2008 at 7:37 am

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   Your program did not air at 930 and the Dawn tv listings shows the time to be at 230pm. Coudl you please make the timings on the other days available to us also? I catch the show on and off pretty much everyday but don’t know the exact time. YOu may lose some of your viewers because the repeat timings aren’t published. Thanks!

2. Farhan Kamil

   May 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am

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   Congratulations on a job well done on the episode! Finally saw the show today, though I don’t think this was the regular time. It was heartening to see SOMEONE on television taking admitting that they could do a better job in bringing to light, a major issue like this. Thank you.

   It was interesting and sad to see the kind of brilliant talent we’re so readily wasting. Whether these are original projects or not, the fact that ALL students in Pakistan have the power and sense to utilize their projects for the greater good, is what makes the difference. Great show! Excellent effort!

3. Batool S

   May 11th, 2008 at 11:07 am

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   Hello Miss. Just saw the show and Am glad that you spent so much time on it. No, I don’t think you have shown Techelite in a bad light. it is not the event that is bad because of the efforts it makes to give students the necessary platform but what is sad is that nobody from the IT industry came to be with students at the event.

   What kind of support are they going to give us? Do they even know what our needs are? What our requirements are? As students we need all the support we can get.

   Most of us do come from middle class families and it is not possible for us to pursue our research projects without any support. Even at the college level, we are unsure what the future is holding for us. If nobody bothers to mentor us, how can we expect to be producing any kind of results?

   I wish I could have come and said hello to you and Sir Faisal Quereshi, but both of you seemed to be busy with the students. Thank you for coming to NED and spending a little bit of time there.

4. Wasim Farid

   May 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am

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   Just saw the Bits and Bytes episode that you recorded at teh NED’s TechElite event. FIrst of all, thank you for projecting something that such few members of the media promoted.

   Secondly, I would like to point something out to you. Many of us do not even know what kinds of comapneis are working here in Pakistan. One of the students on your program mentioned selling his solution to Nokia or United Mobile. Do yo uthink this shows how much awareness we have about our own companies?

   I think it is sad that we know companies like Tata and Wipro and Intel and Microsoft, but do not know any companies that are worth our students future. I was at the event closing ceremony and was shocked to see that none of the CEOs or Directors of companies even did not bother to come and spend time with us. I am not complaining. Corporate sponsorships are very important, but the time that corporates might invest with each student project, will be a much bigger investment that will last a longer time.

   As a student who has spent 15 months developing my project, I do not want to explain my project to a sales or business development manager of a company. I want the attention of someone who is a mentor. a guru. If they cannot spend their time on me, then I don’t know if I want to spend my time building their company.

   Thank you for portraying this issue. I hope it will help people to think.

5. Maaz Baloch

   May 11th, 2008 at 11:14 am

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   I think there is a lot of scope in Pakistan. These student projects that you showed were obviously just one part of what is being developed. But the comment on the show that hit the hardest was when that young boy said that he wants to leave Pakistan because Pakistani companies do not have the scope for the kind of potential he has. And that his teacher also advises him to leave.

   How can a teacher, a guru, a mentor, a person that guides hundreds of members of the future generations, guide a student to leave his roots and his country? Isn’t that shocking?

6. farrukh ghani

   May 11th, 2008 at 11:25 am

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   First off, let me congratulate the CSI Department students. Mr Umair Feroze? Your team has done an excellent job and we all certainly look forward to the next year’s event.

   I do think, however that the show this weeks makes a number of very valid points. The problem of the gap between the industry and the institutions is really much more serious than is portrayed by us. I don’t think the colleges even know how serious it is. I think the pressure of the studies taht is put on the students right now, is purely theoretical. At most, the students are required to arrange for a seminar as part of a course requirement, and more often than not, most of the people they invite, are either not interested in speaking or just the wrong kind of people. The biggest probelm here is caused because the unversities just don’t have the knowledge of the local industry, so how can they invite the right kind of speakers? Additionally, these seminars are really kept as mandatory, which is fine as an incentive to increase the attendance, but see - if you have good speakers, the attendance will automatically increase.

   The tweaking aspect of these students was an interesting one made and I doubt this is something that any university is even focusing on. Presentation skills and what not… Very important. the fact is, however sad but true, that the image that these young graduates portray before they even open their mouths for an interview process, will be about 50% of the job itself.

   Good show. Good job. Let’s work out solutions to make this “issue” a non-issue.

7. Ali

   May 11th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

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   Great program! I just caught it today while switching channels, glad to know our media also has programs like this. Will watch it every sunday now. Keep up good work!

8. ATIF SHAHZAD

   May 12th, 2008 at 6:13 am

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   HI IAM ATIF SHAHZAD FROM QUETTA I LIKE YOUR BITS AND BYTES PROGRAM VERY MUCH,BUT THE WORST THING IS THAT YOUR PROGRAM IS TOTALLY FOCUSED THE DEVELOP AREAS OF PAKISTAN YOU ARE PROMOTING THE STUDENTS OF KARACHI AND LAHORE I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS THE REASON BEHIND IT YOU PEOPLE NOT EVEN THING ABOUT OTHER CITIES WHICH IS NOT GOOD.
   STUDENTS BELONGS TO DEVELOP CITIES DO NOT NEED ANY EXPOSURE OF THEIR TALENT BUT I THINK IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY SO YOU HAVE TO PROMOTE THE TALENT OF STUDENTS OF OTHER CITIES.

9. nazli

   May 12th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

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   I miss the program . Sunday May 11 episode: TechElite please that ,How I can see this PROGRAM

10. Omair Feroz Sheikh

    May 27th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

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    First of all i would like to thank Miss Rabia Ghareb , Bits and Bytes Team and the Samaa Television team for enlightening such an event .

    TechELITE is a platform where students can display their talent and bring into the notice of the companies and the IT professionals what technologies students are working on and how cabale they are.
    34 Companies sponsored TechELITE and helped us in making this event a HUGE success
    TechELITE comprised of 4 different competitions:
    1-Speed Programming Competition
    2-Software Competition and Project Exhibition
    3-Hardware Competition and Project Exhibition
    4-Network Security Competition

    Then we had lecture sessions form TPS , Kalsoft , TRG , Wavtec , Cybernet . Companies also offered jobs and Internship Programs.

    We had Booth Area where 25 companies displayed their products and technologies that they are working on .

    Secondly i would like to inform all the viewers that there were 100 IT professionals and HR people from different companies like TPS, Kalsoft,Cybernet Microsoft, Intel, Imation and many other companies that visited TechELITE.

    It is an honour for us that because of TechELITE over 30 students are working in different internship programs.

    If you people have any queries you cans surely contact me or visit our website at
    http://www.techelite.org.pk

    OMAIR FEROZ SHEIKH
    President - TechELITE
    0333-3257276
    president@techelite.org.pk

11. Daniel Craig

    June 14th, 2008 at 4:57 am

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    Hey, I was looking around for a while searching for network security seminar and I happened upon this site and your post regarding Sunday May 11 episode: TechElite by Bits and Bytes on Samaa Television, I will definitely this to my network security seminar bookmarks!

12. Omair Feroz Sheikh

    February 12th, 2010 at 1:17 pm

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    Hi,

    There is a good news for all those who have watched this video and are interested in such events and seminars, the 4th All Pakistan IT competition known as Techelite 2010 will be held at NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi , Pakistan.

    I will keep you updated about the dates and details.

    Thanks,

    Omair Feroz Sheikh

    Former President
    TechELITE ‘09