LUMS students get ‘nobel prize’ for IT
LAHORE: Students from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) won the Stockholm Challenge Award 2006 for a relief information system for victims of the October 8 earthquake, Daily Times learnt. Nuzhat Kamran, head of Management and External Relations Department, said the award was considered the “Nobel Prize in Information Technology” and the project was a great help to earthquake victims. A group of Computer Science Department students and faculty had developed a software information system called Risepak to manage detailed information on demographics, locations and indicators of earthquake-hit areas and its notice boards for each area featured announcements, comments, opinions and requests from relief workers and victims. The software also enabled information-sharing by telephone, SMS, fax, email and website. The project was organised by a network of students and faculty from LUMS, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and Pomona College and economists from the World Bank. The LUMS team consisted of Sadaf Aziz, Dr Ali Cheema, Moeen Cheema, Yasser Hashmi, Dr Furrukh Khan, Dr Sohaib Khan, Miguel Loureiro, Milal Minto, Shandana Mohmand, Osama Siddique, Dr Sarah Zaid, Sana Faraz, Ahsan Kamal, Ahmad Abdul Karim, Nizar Nadir, Syed Ali Asjad Naqvi, Dr Sadia Qadir, Najam Tariq and Batool Zaidi.
Source: Daily Times
Date:10/9/2006
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