Category: Technology
Nano-technology in Food & Agriculture Industry
At the recent World Halal Research summit, that was held April 6-7, 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Professor Dr Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid presented an overview of nano-technology innovation possibilities in the food sector with implications for the Halal food industry. Professor Dr Sharifah Bee Abd Hamid is the Director of Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre (NANOCEN) at Universiti Malaya, [...]
Online Gaming Industry Emerges: Cricket Power, Tarneeb, Arabic Rappelz
Online gaming is a global phenomenon, with web-based games and Xbox, Wii and Playstation online networks connecting young and old to play games such as Halo3, Sim, Call of Duty etc. Given the OIC regions high youth demographic, which is increasingly online, it is no surprise that online gaming companies from Pakistan to Jordan are [...]
Oasis500: A Technology Startup Accelerator from Jordan
Forty CEOs, investors and experts attend the first Oasis500 Mentor Network meeting. “You are the new generation, this is your chance! So what are you waiting for, get out of the desert!” Dr. Usama Fayyad uses the above quote to graciously describe what his company does best. Oasis500, an entrepreneurial projects and investments company, operating [...]
Meet the Chief Yahoo! of the Arab World
Samih Toukan’s life motto, “It’s better to try and fail than to fail to try,” has made him the globe’s largest Arab entrepreneur success story. When the world’s major Internet portal, Yahoo! signed a multi-million dollar deal with the biggest Arab online community in the world called Maktoob.com on August 25, CEO Samih Toukan was [...]
Unique IT Services in Islamic Finance and Key Players
In the last 25 year, Islamic banking practice has progressed tremendously. The past two and a half decades, serious research done, has established that Islamic banking is a viable and efficient way of financial intermediation. Several Islamic banks have been established during this period under mixed, social and economic settings. Recently, many conventional banks, including [...]
Pakistan’s Defense Private Sector Emerges with Indigenous UAV Technology
Back in 1970, the American Army Gen. William Westmoreland is reported to have said: “On the battlefield of the future, enemy forces will be located, tracked and targeted almost instantaneously through the use of data links, computer-assisted intelligence and automated fire control. … I am confident the American people expect this country to take full [...]
Mobile Technology Innovation and Islamic Finance
That there has been huge growth in the proliferation of telecommunications and information technologies (IT) in developing countries is plainly obvious. From mobile phones and PDA’s (hand carried mini-computer /cellphone devices) to the availability of Internet access at home or cafes has changed the landscape for both consumers and businesses. To get an idea of [...]
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) – Leads a Scientific Renaissance
At a time when intellectually-agile tradition of the Muslim world seems to be forgotten, a pioneering project in a “desert country” is set to revive the past glory of the golden Islamic era. A “country of Bedouins” sometimes accused of breeding fanaticism is doing something fantastic. Welcome to the Saudi Arabia of King Abdullah who [...]
Si3 – the “Accenture of Pakistan” Aims Big
Many ambitious young people in developing countries look to the West not only for higher education but to work for world-class Wall Street or Fortune 500 companies. In the late 80’s, Amer Hashmi of Pakistan, was one of those fortunate ones who got that opportunity, but always wished there could be choices much closer to [...]
Promoting Scientific Innovation in the Muslim World
Scientific and technological research and innovation is not among the qualities that one may attribute to the countries in the Muslim World. Having missed the dawn of scientific age due to reasons beyond the scope of this article, the 50-odd countries of the Islamic world cut a sorry figure when stacked against the modern and [...]
