About Us

Mobile Monday

The idea behind the phenomenon that is Mobile Monday is to bring people concerned with mobile solutions and technology together. Since its launch in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, it has grown into a global community with its chapters active in 60 cities worldwide. The community has attracted industry visionaries, mobile developers and other influential individuals. Virtual and live networking events enable sharing of ideas, best practices, and allow networking opportunities.

Mobile Monday’s objectives are geared towards an open and mobile internet with real broadband that opens up a host of possibilities. It aims to encourage innovation, facilitate networking and help local companies participate in international initiatives. Moreover, it also aims to present innovative vision, trends, studies and forecasts from the mobile market place, as well as contribute to the education of the broader public through its publications, online presence and media partnerships.

History

Mobile Monday started in Finland in September 2000 with a meeting of some influential professionals of the mobile industry on a Monday evening. The group decided to continue meeting on the first Monday of every month – resulting in ‘Mobile Monday’. This movement to spread towards the end of 2004, and today MoMo chapters are active in over 60 cities worldwide, with new chapters launched regularly. This growth has resulted in Mobile Monday becoming one of the world’s leading mobile community.

Mobile Monday Pakistan

Mobile Monday Pakistan has been launched to encourage innovation in the fast-growing mobile sector in Pakistan. The mobile industry sector has seen tremendous growth in Pakistan in recent years, and there is still immense room for growth and development of this sector. MoMo Pakistan will help the local companies, industrialists, entrepreneurs and mobile-industry related professionals integrate into the global community. In this fast developing industry, its imperative for local mobile companies to be on the same page with the rest of the world in terms of vision, concepts, technologies, know-how and best practices.

Mobile Monday Pakistan will be launched in Islamabad on April 19, 2010. The Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunications (CAST) at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology is taking on the exciting opportunity of launching and maintaining the website. Mobile Monday Pakistan is aimed at establishing strong connection between local and foreign companies engaged in the mobile industry. The purpose is to build a community in Pakistan that – through its links with the global community through Mobile Monday – will develop and promote innovations in mobile industry, overviewing the latest and the hottest trends in the mobile world, and contributing to the increased awareness of the general audience.

About CIIT

The COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), which received its Charter from the Federal Government in August 2000, as a Degree Awarding Institute (DAI) in the public sector. The CIIT is now slated for upgradation as a university by the name of ‘Comsats University’ through an Act of the Parliament. Being federally established institute, the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), is a fully flourishing ranking institution of higher learning in the country, with seven functional Campuses in cities of Islamabad, Abbottabad, Lahore, Wah, Attock, Sahiwal and Vehari while six more campuses at Gujrat, Toba Tek Singh, Karachi, Larkana, Quetta & Peshawar are in advanced planning stage. The future plans also envisage opening of more campuses in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, as well as overseas.

Currently the CIIT is offering 47 different degree programs divided as 20 undergraduate and 27 graduate programs in the fields of Information and Communication Technology, Management Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Bio-sciences, Development Studies, Environmental Science, Meteorology, and Architecture and Design. The present student strength is around 16,000 with faculty corpus of more than 1,600. The CIIT has already produced 8,117 graduates up to Spring 2009, who are serving the nation in the various callings.

CIIT has been consistently ranked among the top seven (7) institutions of higher education since 2006, as per certifications notified by the Higher Education Commission (HEC). While in terms of research output, CIIT has been ranked at number 5 among institutions of higher education numbering more than 114 in the country during 2005-2007. CIIT has also been ranked at number 7 in research ranking of Universities on the basis of cumulative Impact Factor based on Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) web of knowledge (USA). CIIT was also ranked at top 2 position for Research Citations during 2008. In 2008, HEC once again compiled results on the basis of publications from Pakistani Universities/DAI’s which appeared in peer-reviewed journals, indexed by Thomson Reuters, ISI Web of Knowledge, and published them in the newspapers on 7th June 2009. According to this publication, CIIT attained 7th ranking among 124 Universities/DAI’s.

CAST

Centre for Advanced Studies in Telecommunication (CAST) was established on 12 December 2007 as an independent research institute committed to quality research in the area of telecommunication. CAST has been directly funded by higher education commission HEC of Pakistan. Establishment of CAST has ensured long term continuity of quality and industry relevant research.

Since there is a absence of any meaningful dialogue and collaboration between regional industry and universities, CAST has been developed with an aim to use it as an interface between university-based telecommunication activities and regional telecom industry, government and community groups. CAST from its inception has been focused on developing strong industry links, with specific regard to the practical implementation and realization of telecommunication technologies. In this regard CAST has established a marketing department for establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial commercial collaboration with local telecom industry.

The mission of CAST is to provide a prominent service to society by promoting quality research in telecommunication by virtue of its highly competent faculty and staff, state-of-art research facilities, mutual relationship with regional industry and by providing an intellectually stimulating environment for post graduate study. CAST is a dynamic research center drawing in talented researchers from the world over and reacting rapidly to the changing technology.