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Pakistan Launch of Asi@Connect Project
When: 6 December 2018 Where: Higher Education Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan
Asi@Connect local launch is a major milestone for PERN, as TEIN connectivity is the core link used for R&E purposes by PERN partner universities. We are planning to project the R&E activities in front of the Government officials as well as whole academia linked with PERN. The launch event may hive officials from European Commission in Pakistan along with Chairman Higher Education Commission, Pakistan and Minister for Higher Education in Pakistan. The event aims to provide all interested stakeholders with a key opportunity to present, share, meet and discuss on: • Recent research and development applications/results on RENs • Experiences and learned lessons in research and education with the other members • New ideas of applications on research and education networks • Future development of advanced research and education networks in Pakistan • Collaborations with international initiatives among the TEIN-connected participating institutes
About PERN Pakistan Education & Research Network is the only Research and Education Network of the country established and administered by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. The PERN project was initiated under the concept of Educational Intranet in 2002 under the Government of Pakistan, IT Action Plan which afterwards evolved as PERN2. PERN provides various services to the education and research institutes in Pakistan, that include Internet, Intranet, digital library, video conferencing facility, and unified communication, cloud computing, management information system, business intelligence solution as well as International R&E connectivity to the member universities. PERN has taken and intends on taking more such initiatives to ensure high quality services reach all institutes who are forward looking to leapfrog in the information age using PERN as its springboard.
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