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Pakistan Innovation Foundation and I AM KARACHI Consortium hosted… The I AM KARACHI INNOVATION CHALLENGE.

OPEN FOR ALL INNOVATORS passionate about creating a Peaceful Karachi! Student, professional or entrepreneur with an idea for this great city and believe that your idea has the power to solve Karachi’s problems were asked to apply to become part of the most exciting event of the year!

3-day Hackathon took place at Habib University  from 12-14 June 2015.

Problem statements were revealed in the following theme areas:

1. Health
2. Education
3. Law and Security
4. Environment and Transportation
5. Art, Culture and Society

Winners won up to  PKR 300,000 (1st), PKR 200,000 (2nd), and PKR 100,000 (3rd) worth of merchandise and support on the day of the Hackathon. They also won support from our theme partners and sponsors to help them realise their ideas, and the opportunity to participate in a 3-month long Innovation Accelerator!

Where functionality met form!

Under the National Innovation Grand Challenge, more than 20+ teams participated in the Design Day held in Islamabad. The teams were paired up with student designers and faculty from SADA, University of Gujrat and National College of Arts, Lahore. The purpose of Design Day was to assist teams in improving the outlook of their product, while maintaining the same level of functionality. Participants worked with their paired up designers to submit their ideas to win cash prizes worth PKR 50,000/-

Winners include:

Neelam Munir from University of Karachi

Awais Arshad from Islamabad University of Gujrat

Ilm Apps Challenge conducted in 2014, was an “Open Innovation Challenge” focused on creating ‘ilm applications’ to address Pakistan’s Education Emergency. Applicants were invited to create mobile and web-based applications focused on the goal of increasing outreach of education in an improved manner. The Ilm Apps Challenge included a series of eight workshops and three hackathons to produce polished products in the form of web-based and mobile applications that were awarded seed funding amounting to PKR 200 million.

Winners of the Ilm Apps Challenge of include:

Knowledge Platform

Arbisoft

MS-ITE (NUST)

Team Amal

Innovation Forum 2014 was conducted under the theme of “Innovation Nation™ – The Promise and Challenges of Creating an Innovation Ecosystem”. The event brought together notable champions from the academia, government and business together with emerging young innovators and entrepreneurs. The Innovation Forum addressed the challenges and opportunities of boosting innovation in the country by engaging all the relevant stakeholders. Here is the final report of “The Innovation Nation”. Click here to read the Report.