Monday, January 26, 2004		Companyspeak

Pak IT delegation

Nasscom has announced that a 20-member IT delegation from Pakistan will be participating at Nasscom 2004- India Leadership Forum being held from February 3 to 6, 2004, in Mumbai. The delegation, led by Ms. Jehan Ara, president, Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA), will also visit few other key IT cities in India to meet some major IT companies. The Pakistan’s software industry is in its infancy with approximate revenue earnings of $ 50 million. At present, the industry employs 10,000 professionals.

Aptech’s staffer awarded

Dr N.J. Rajaram, Chief Technical Officer, Aptech Ltd, was recently awarded ICQRIT’s prestigious award on Pioneering Research in Reliability Engineering in the area of Software Quality Assurance by the International Conference on Quality Reliability & Information Technology (ICQRIT). The other winners included Prof. S. Osaki and S. Yamada from Japan, also for Quality Assurance. The award, instituted by Indian National Science Academy (INSA), seeks to promote pioneering research in Software Quality Assurance.

NIIT pact with ICSI

Under an exclusive arrangement, NIIT will train students and members of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), the apex body governing the company secretaries in the country. According to a MoU between NIIT and ICSI, the IT training leader will offer a specially designed program at select NIIT centres across the country. This task-oriented special program will train the students and existing members of ICSI on high-end personal computing skills. Learners will have the flexibility to choose and practice from a range of specially designed task alternatives as part of the curriculum.