[Owen Abroad] Answers on a postcard, please

Answers on a postcard, please 4 February, 2011 Like Chris Blattman, I've just been 'interviewed' by email by a journalist writing a series of articles about poverty.  She wanted, by return, some answers to some pretty preposterous questions.  My answers are below. I'm sure readers of this blog would have interesting answers, so please put them in the comments below. 1. It is realistic to think that poverty can one day end? It depends what you mean by "poverty".  I certainly believe that it is feasible in the near future for everyone to have enough to eat; to have access to clean water; to have access to basic healthcare which prevents them from dying from easily preventable and treatable diseases; to have shelter and sanitation; for every child to go to school and for mothers to face low risks of dying in childbirth. But poverty is also a relative idea; there will always be people who need help.  We should plan to have permanent, well governed mechanisms of global solidarity so that those who are fortunate, wherever they may be in the world, can support those who are less fortunate, whoever they may be.  We may hope that particular individuals will need help only temporarily, but we need permanent systems to ensure that they get it. 2. What are the best global solutions? The countries of the rich world could do much more to create the conditions for poor countries to accelerate development. For example they could, at very little cost to themselves (indeed, with some benefit) improve trade policies and reduce agricultural subsidies to enable poor countries to trade their way out of poverty; permit greater migration from developing countries, so that the benefits of globalisation are more widely shared; adjust government-created intellectual property rights to enable poor countries to share the benefits of new technologies; close tax havens and clamp down on corruption, tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational companies; open up detailed information about financial flows including aid, payments for extractive industries, defence spending, and climate change, so that citizens of developing countries can ensure that those resources are not squandered; create markets for environmental assets, especially by setting global carbon emissions ceilings and agreeing to equal per capita allocations, so that the rich world pays a fair price for their use of more than their fair share of the world's natural resources; and reduce exports of small and large arms to the developing word. As industrialised countries help create the conditions for developing countries to make faster progress, it will be for the people of the developing world to use their own ingenuity and hard work to develop social, economic and political institutions that enable them to make progress in their own way; but it is hard to imagine success that does not involve much greater investment in the rights and status of women. 3. How urgent is it to act? Twenty five thousand people die each day of preventable and treatable diseases.  If those people were citizens of Europe or America, we would have declared a state of emergency. 4. Do you believe there is hope for the future? Of course: hope for the future is amply justified by the extraordinary progress which developing countries are making.  The last fifty years has seen the fastest progress in human history on reducing poverty and improving living standards, from reducing malnutrition to providing access to clean water. See the post online, read comments by others, or add your comments. Unsubscribe | Subscribe | RSS

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Warid Gets Irfan Chaudry Back as CTO: ProPakistani

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• Warid Gets Irfan Chaudry Back as CTO
• Telenor Pakistan Gets New CTO
• Mobilink SMS Plus: 150 SMS a Day for Rs. 1.50
• If your Website Reproduces Content from Other Websites Then You are in Trouble
• Maxthon 3 Review – Part 2

Warid Gets Irfan Chaudry Back as CTO Posted: 03 Feb 2011 05:16 AM PST Warid Gets Irfan Chaudry Back as CTO is a post from: ProPakistani Warid Telecom has re-hired Mr. Irfan Chaudry as Chief Technical Officer of the company, after a gap of four month, we have confirmed with multiple sources close to the situation. Mr. Chaudry had resigned from CTO's office at Warid in September 2010, reportedly, due to differences with higher management. However, recent reshuffle in Warid's Management made a way for him to get back to his lost seat. Mr. Chaudry will also take care of IT department as interim head. Mr.Chaudry has been with Warid for last six year. Telecom experts are taking the re-entry of Irfan Chaudry as a sign that Warid is no longer looking for a buyer, at least for another year or so. This opinion is supported by a fact that Warid employees got up to 15 percent increment in salaries. This announcement was made by Mr. Zouhair A. Khaliq, Executive Director, Warid, in front of managers and senior management at Royal Palm Country Club, Lahore yesterday in a townhall meeting, told us a source in the company. Reportedly, Mr. Khaliq held a similar ceremony in Karachi today, where managers and higher management from south region were present. According to our source, during the Lahore session, when someone asked about the possible merger of Warid, Mr. Khaliq replied "If Warid's merger was supposed to happen, it would have happened by now". Mr. Khaliq also announced that company has no plans for any head cut in near future. Related posts: Warid Loses its CTO, Irfan Chaudhry Warid Quiz Winner [Pic] Warid-Gymkhana Golf League 2008-09 Concluded Warid Delivery Reports are Back, No, They are Not! Jahanzeb Taj Replaces Irfan Akram as VP Sales Mobilink Copyright © 2010 ProPakistani.PK

Telenor Pakistan Gets New CTO Posted: 03 Feb 2011 01:42 AM PST Telenor Pakistan Gets New CTO is a post from: ProPakistani It looks that Telenor Pakistan is completely revamping the office with new top-level management. In a latest development today, Norwegian company replaced its CTO for group's Pakistani arm, reported Telecom Recorder. We have got the confirmation from Telenor too. Company said that it appointed György Koller as new CTO to replace Mr. Khalid Shahzad. György Koller, an Hungarian, has been with Telenor Group since 1994. Lately, he was CTO at Telenor Hungary for last 6 months only. We don't know Mr. Shahzad's next destination for now. Sources say that group is still in the process of finding out a slot for him. Related posts: Telenor Asked to Pay License Fee's Installment Confirmed: Blackberry Handsets From Telenor Pakistan Telenor Selects TKP Pakistan for Provision of Global Support Services Confirmed: Telenor Going Blackberry Soon Khurram Malik, Director CRD, Telenor Moves to DiGi Copyright © 2010 ProPakistani.PK

Mobilink SMS Plus: 150 SMS a Day for Rs. 1.50 Posted: 03 Feb 2011 12:56 AM PST Mobilink SMS Plus: 150 SMS a Day for Rs. 1.50 is a post from: ProPakistani Mobilink is offering this SMS package, called 'Jazz SMS Plus Offer' that allows its customers to send 150 SMS to any network in Pakistan for a flat rate of Rs. 1.50 plus tax per day. Jazz has revamped its earlier SMS Plus offer allowed 250 text messages from 7 AM to 7 PM for Rs. 1.50. Tariff Details: Price: Rs. 1.50 plus tax Number of SMS: 150 Validity: 24 Hours Minimum Balance Required (with tax): Rs. 1.8 How to Subscribe and maintain? Subscription: Dial *106*1# on mobile screen and press send. Status Inquiry: Dial *106*2# on mobile screen and press send. Un-Subscription Process: Dial *106*4# on mobile screen and press send. Terms & Conditions The offer can be used to send free SMS on any network in Pakistan. On day end, customer would be automatically re-subscribed to the offer and the subscription fee would be deducted from his account. An SMS notification would also be sent to the customer at the time of re-subscription. If the customer doesn't have sufficient balance at the time of automatic re-subscription, then he would be unsubscribed from the offer. An SMS notification would also be sent to the customer at the time of un-subscription. Customer can re-subscribe to the offer after recharging. This is a limited time offer. Related posts: Mobilink Sheds its 200 Employees Mustafa Peracha Resigns from Mobilink Mobilink 3G Setup is on the Roll Mobilink Projects its Contributions Towards IDPs in DVD Compilation Breaking: Zouhair Khaliq Replaced by Rashid Khan As CEO Mobilink Copyright © 2010 ProPakistani.PK

If your Website Reproduces Content from Other Websites Then You are in Trouble Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:33 PM PST If your Website Reproduces Content from Other Websites Then You are in Trouble is a post from: ProPakistani We recently wrote on how to report to Google the copyright infringements for those who think their genuinely written unique content is aggressively copied over the web. Well, to all those legitimate bloggers/ webmaster you may not need to report websites for copy/pasting any further. Actually here's a good news, at same time a death warrant for those scamper bloggers who copy/paste content on their website, and the news is: "we (Google) are evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others' content and sites with low levels of original content.", Matt Cutts, Head of SPAM at Google Via: mattcutts.com In simple words, all those websites which reproduce content from elsewhere on the web will be ranked lower or will be marked as SPAM and won't appear in search engines at all. So if you are working on a blog idea, which will reproduce content from other websites, straight away forget it. If you are already doing this then start looking for other ways to earn money. Related posts: Free Web Templates in Pakistan by Pakistanis PTA Should Block Local Porn Sites, if Not All Where is Search Button on Ufone's Website? This Website Has Thousands of Pakistani Girls' Mobile Numbers – damn! How Girls Should Secure Their Mobile Numbers? Copyright © 2010 ProPakistani.PK

Maxthon 3 Review – Part 2 Posted: 02 Feb 2011 11:19 PM PST Maxthon 3 Review – Part 2 is a post from: ProPakistani This is a Guest Post by Fawad Hassan, who is a professional web developer, intermediate designer, and amature photographer. He currently works as Software Engineer for Ufone. He runs a web development blog iFadey and also teach web technologies. Few months ago I wrote an article as a guest writer about Maxthon 3. I am writing another review because there are UI changes and many new features added in the latest release. I am not giving any introduction of Maxthon 3 here because it was already given in the previous article. Revised UI There are minor changes in the UI as shown below. The first thing you may have noticed is that the Page Menu is gone (Button No. 7 in this image). All the options under Page Menu are now moved to under Menu (blue button on top-right). Let’s take a look at the new buttons added in the UI. 1) Feed Reader This button opens Maxthon’s builtin feed reader. 2) Online Notepad It’s actually cloud based notepad which save your notes on Maxthon servers which can be retrieved from any PC having Maxthon 3 installed in it. This is similar to Online Favorites. 3) Translator You can translate complete webpage or selected text directly from Maxthon. 4) Mute Sound You can mute sounds on the opened webpage using this button. Remember that all the buttons (Feed Reader, Online Notepad, Translator) on favorite bar can also be accessed from Menu > Tools. I always hide the favorites bar because I prefer to keep the UI simple and clean. Tip: You can show/hide favorites bar by pressing Ctrl + B. Private Browsing This mode allows you to browse the web privately without leaving the traces (cookies, history, and cache files) behind. It automatically clears all the traces when you close the browser running in Private Mode. To run the browser in Private Mode, click Menu > New Private Window. When browser is running in Private Mode, it shows a shield icon on User Profile button as shown below. Tip: You can clear the traces manually by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Del. Workspace Imagine you have two or more Gmail accounts and want to login all of them at a time using single browser. Maxthon made that possible for you by introducing a concept called Workspace. Open Maxthon 3 and login using your Gmail/Yahoo/Live account. Then click Menu > New Workspace Window and open gmail.com again. You will see a gmail login page instead of logging in automatically with currently signed in email id. Here you can signin using a different email id. Split Screen One of my favorite feature in new release is Split Screen. This mode divides the screen in two halfs and display two webpages at a time. This feature is very nice if you want to compare two web pages. Press F10 to activate/deactivate Split view or goto Menu > View > Split Screen. You can move tabs from one half to the other and also open new tabs. When you close the Split view, all tabs from the right half will automatically appear in left one. Online Notepad Online Notepad is a cloud based text editor in which you can save notes and access them from any PC having Maxthon 3. Remember that you need Maxthon Passport account to save notes online. Tip: Ctr + G is the shortcut key of Online Notepad. Feed Reader Maxthon now includes a built-in Feed Reader. You can access it from Menu > Tools > Feed Reader. Things may change or new features will be added in it because Feed Reader is currently in beta. More cool features will come in future releases of Maxthon 3. So your Maxthon 3 updated to enjoy these exciting new features :) Installing Maxthon 3 You can download latest release of Maxthon 3 from this link. The installer size is around 17 MB. Installation process is very quick and completed within few seconds. Related posts: Maxthon 3 – An Internet Browser from China Open Forum on the Review of IT & Telecom Policies Trend Mobile Phone Prices in Pakistan Nokia Siemens to Undergo Massive Job Cut Spectrum Prices in Pakistan to Go High Copyright © 2010 ProPakistani.PK

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