If you innovate, they will come..

The following poster snap is taken at Dallas Texas Airport. I really like the way it depicts the importance of innovation……

Are you a victim of Cyber Crime? Complain to NR3C Pakistan

It is such a relief to know that “National Response Centre for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) “ (FIA) , Pakistan (http://www.nr3c.gov.pk/index.html) , is combating online crimes . In simple words , they are sort of cyber police whose duty is to monitor , track and catch the criminal involve in online abusive activities. In case you happen to be a victim of cyber/online crime such as identity theft, hacking, child pornography, stealing of sensitive online information, Dos attacks , mis-use of mobile phones etc you can easily file a complain with NR3C. This is just like filing at complain to law enforcement in an offline world and once the complained is filed, you will be assigned a unique tracking number. Be RESPONSIBLE citizen and act upon it. The procedure is extremely simple.

- Online Procedure

Write down your problem, with complete details… and in the end mention your name, contact numbers and addresses.

Fax: 051-9266435
Email: helpdesk@nr3c.gov.pk

-Offline Procedure

Simply write down your application (in English or in Urdu), narrate your complete problem, provide as much evidences, details as you can and send it to FIA National Response Center for Cyber Crimes(NR3C).

Address this application to,

To Director Cyber Crimes,
FIA Headquarters, Islamabad

Lets Work together to combat CYBER CRIMES in Pakistan.

Can Risks be Opportunities???

This Friday we had an amazing training session on Fiscal Management and one of the components we covered was the Risk Management or in other words recognizing and mitigating the risks in business and projects. There is no magic formula to avoid risks and in fact every successful venture have had list of risks and failures with the nickname “Experience”.

I must admit that unforeseen risks always make me panic but during this training I learned that the Risks can sometime be opportunities, which positively reshaped my perspective. During the execution of Jaroka Tele-Healthcare project we came across myriad risks (predicted as well as unforeseen) and the most recent one was the sudden monsoon floods in Pakistan marked as the worst natural disaster of the century. At that time, we were ready to launch the Lady Health Workers training on ICT and mobile software module. With this catastrophic situation in the country we knew the priority should be on providing emergency relief to flood victims rather than planned training. It was obvious that delay in trainings may jeopardize our credibility in front of Jaroka’s funders but our team decided to put an action plan to mitigate the risk rather than to face a failure. Free medical camps and tele-healthcare services on the go were arranged for the flood victims. Our team managed to reach and serve the victims with medical services in completely disastrous areas. This also gave us opportunity to test our software which would otherwise have taken months. Due to the consistent hard work and efficient system many international agencies contacted us and we were also able to train the Community and Lady Health workers on the software during the emergency situation.

I believe that risks are always there and what matter is the actions we take to mitigate the risk. In most situations with effective management the few risks if not all can be your best opportunity.