Exploring the Future Potential of AI-Enabled Smartphone Processors
HEC Initiatives IT(Division) By A.Chattha
1. Strategic Management & HEC Initiatives Awareness
IT Division Presentation
February 15, 2012 Islamabad
Ch Abdulla Fayyaz Chattha
Director Operations (PERN)
Higher Education Commission
Islamabad – Pakistan
achattha@hec.gov.pk, achattha@pern.edu.pk
http://www.hec.gov.pk ; http://www.pern.edu.pk
2. An integrated electronic environment that enables all students,
faculty and staff to communicate with one another and to interact
with information resources independent of accrediting organization
and place
Free Flow of ideas , the exchange of discoveries and
scientific debate into the digital world
Building Paths for
◦ e-Trust
(Uniform Access Policy )
◦ e-Mobility
(Mobility and electronic
transitivity of trust)
◦ e-Administration
(Nation wide Authentication
and Authorization
Infrastructure (AAI) to
superimpose internal
administrative processes)
7/7/2012 2
3. people-to-
peopleE-Administration E-Conferences
Communication,
Email Virtual Class
Web Portals Groupware rooms
Learning Services Persons
Management E-Presence
access to access to
AAI
Distributed,
facilities
information media-rich
Authentication
information
Authorization
technology
Infrastructure
Digital Libraries
PRR Digital Interaction with
Digital Thesis
Libraries, E- the Physical
OJS Pub Inter-operate
World Docking
Digital Journal
VOD Libraries Networks
7/7/2012 3
5. 2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Core 10x G, Metro 10 G,
1 G Last Mile
2011
Video Conf. Points 75
AAI IDM Infra /Email
PERN 1 - 1.5 - 2
Docking Networks
Video Conference
6 CMS Uni. Pilot
Digital Libraries
AAI Based Digital (Eprints, Ojs,Js)
Libraries (Eprints, Ojs,Js)
Data Centre Up Grade
Hosted/ Managed DC
Wifi Mesh in Univ.
HEMIS
8. RFID based Card readers at all the Door entrances of HEC
◦ Access control to the offices
◦ Access Tracking
◦ Enhanced security
9. Designed & Developed to:
• Build central Data Repository
of File / Documents record
• Search files /docs Location
• Track files /docs and their
Movement details
• File In or Out Process
• Process based file movement
details to measure the
division performance
• Report of Files in My Office
• Generate Reports of File In/
Out in a office w.r.t date
/duration specified
10.
11. Information on
•Academic and Co-Curricular
Activities
•Human Resource Development
•Learning Innovation
•Quality Assurance % from
•Research & Development Pakistan
•Technological Reforms
•Finance, Planning & Development
Methodology Nov 2009-
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09
Apr 11
Sessions
733,067 1,537,005 2,135,581 3,239,623 3,791,644 4,067,655 4,763,419
Page views
4,221,902 8,996,880 11,661,309 20,194,272 24,460,754 26,593,994 24,437,275
Hits
7,081,666 17,320,474 25,111,866 91,768,306 125,096,526 141,760,636 517,986,964 11
16. National Datacenter
HEC Enterprise Services
System Application & Products (SAP)
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Microsoft System Center Operation Manager (SCOM)
Microsoft Office Communicator Service (OCS)
Attendance Visitor System (AVS)
File Management System (FMS)
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Centralized Directory & Email Services
Employee Directory
17. Huawei Microsoft
◦ Interfacing to PERN2 ◦ Computing Platform
Cisco Windows7
◦ Core Network across HEC Server2008R2
Exchange2007
IBM
Oracle
◦ Servers
◦ PeopleSoft
◦ SAN
◦ Database
Codian ◦ Business Inteligence
◦ Multisite Conferencing Unit SAP
(HD)
◦ Enterprise Resource
Tandberg Planning
◦ End-point Video RedHat Linux
Conferencing Units (HD) ◦ Fedora & CentOS Servers
Infrastructure Platform Services/Application Platform
22. NCP is a partner of CERN in this
project and it is the only LCG
node in Pakistan
There are stringent requirements
for computing at LHC. To exploit
the full physics potential of LHC
data in comprehensive manner,
NCP required Linux based PC
farms, data storage capacity in
100s of terabyte and excellent
network connectivity starting
with minimum of 20MB
To equipment NCP with excellent
network connectivity PERN2 has
dedicated TEIN3-PK link
completely.
The Large Hadron Collider
27. National Service
Integrated Services
Secure Communication
Calendaring
Instant Messaging
Mobile Access
Nationwide Contact
Searching
28. o Enhanced Presence Awareness
o Instant Messaging (including
Rich Client Feature Set groups)
o Directory List of all users
oVideo Calls
o Enterprise Voice Call Control
• Multiparty Calls
• Call Hold
Lync 2010 • Call Transfers
• Call Forwarding
• Simultaneous Ring with Phone
o Audio/Video Conferencing
UCS
o File Transfers
o Desktop Sharing and control
delegation
oCall to phone extensions
o Call forwarding to communicator
Enterprise
Email
Telephony
oVoice Mail
oConversation History
oLaunch Instant Messaging from
outlook
o “Call all” Message Recipients
oDirectly contact using outlook
oMiss conversation notification
oSchedule Conferences
29. o Faculty Connection
Academic Resource Centre for Technical faculty
Customizable curriculums and valuable in-class programs
Connection (Forums and Events) .a network of peers to share knowledge and find experts.
o Course Lab Integration
Training materials on “.NET Framework 3.5” and “SQL Server 2008”
Trains One (01) faculty member per technology from each university.
o Microsoft .Net Club
a community of up to 5 members who can initiate activities and programs inside the
university.
o Microsoft Students to Business Program,
connects Microsoft partners with universities to enhance employability of students.
o Microsoft Student Partner
annual award recognizing students demonstrating strong technical knowledge of
Microsoft
o Imagine Cup
world’s student competition encourages young people
o MSDNAA
Free availability of All Microsoft products and contents to each university/ DAI for
academic purpose.
o Trainings / IT Academy program
hands-on training at Microsoft Certified Training Center for
Scenario Based Customized Training One (01) resource/university
Faculty members Master trainers MCT for IT faculty (02) resource / University
30. Features
◦ All services hosted in Cloud thus reducing the chancesEDU.PK
PERN &
of disaster
◦ With the support and supervision of HEC system would be available
Managed Email And DNS TLD
Web Services
24 x 7 x 365 (99.98 %). No downtime
◦ Already build setup hosted at HEC (No infrastructure required at
your premises)
Services available through Cloud
◦ Email
◦ Lync (Office Communicator)
◦ SharePoint Portal Managed Email And
Web Services
PERN & EDU.PK
DNS TLD
31.
32.
33. Social Relevance
Phonetic Search Ribbon UI
SharePoint Workspace
Skill Search SharePoint Mobile
Organization Office Client
Browser Office Web App Integration
All university Contact Standards Support
Enterprise Content Types
Metadata and Navigation
Document Sets
Multi-stage Disposition
Audio and Video Content Types
Tagging, Tag, Ratings
Remote Blob Storage
Social Bookmarking
List Enhancements
Blogs and Wikis
My Sites
Activity Feeds
Profiles and Expertise
Org Browser
34. RFID based Card readers at all the Door entrances of HEC
◦ Access control to the offices
◦ Access Tracking
◦ Enhanced security
35. Designed & Developed to:
• Build central Data Repository
of File / Documents record
• Search files /docs Location
• Track files /docs and their
Movement details
• File In or Out Process
• Process based file movement
details to measure the
division performance
• Report of Files in My Office
• Generate Reports of File In/
Out in a office w.r.t date
/duration specified
36. Posting of positions advertised by HEC
Universities are also provided this facility to post their positions as well
National Job Portal for job seekers in higher education sector
◦ More than 20,000 registered applicants
37.
38.
39. Indicators Statistics
Universities/ Institutes provided 73
with this facility
Instructors 3,838
Students 13,751
Total Submissions 169,787
Originality Reports 168,080
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40. HEIs in 2002 HEIs in 2011
Pakistan Education & Research Network
• No. of HEIs connected 16 110
• Max. internet bandwidth to an HEI 128 Kbps 310 Mbps
• Max. intranet to any two HEIs 128 Kbps
• Total internet bandwidth available to HEIs 8 Mbps 6,240 Mbps
• R&E link to other NRENs Nil 155 Mbps
Video Conferencing
• No. of HEIs provided facility Nil 75
• No. of interactive events arranged Nil 810+
• No. of users benefited Nil 8,815
Campus Management Solution
• No. of HEIs provided with facility Nil 8
• No. of students benefitting Nil 50,000
• No. of Modules/ Processes automated Nil 9/ 36
Strategic Education Alliance with Microsoft
• No. of Licenses provided to HEIs Nil 40,000
• No. of Software provided to HEIs Nil 450+
41. HEIs in 2002 HEIs in 2011
Unified Communication System
• University specific domain email provided Nil 3409
• Quad-play services (voice/video/data/IM) Nil 3409
provided
• No. of other allied institutions provided the Nil 25+
facility
Trainings to IT Resources/ Faculty/ Students/ Staff of HEIs
• Network Administration & Management Nil 50
• Video Conferencing Administration Nil 99
• Campus Automation Management Nil 28,000+
• Advanced Software Technologies Nil 254
Campus Network established through Development Projects
• No. of HEIs having campus-wide network ~10 65
• No. of HEIs having Optical Fiber based Nil 45
network
• No. of Servers available/ provided to HEIs 20 478
• No. of Networking equipment (switches/ N/A 6,570
routers)
• No. of Computers (laptop/ desktop) ~5,000 66,000+
43. ICT Infrastructure Survey
Campus Network Design
Video Conferencing Setup
Special arrangements for high level of
information security
PC-1 Project Proposals Review and Advice
Visit of HEC’s most advanced ICT facilities to
students and faculty
Services to other ministries, government
departments and international collaborators
44. NIP 2007 Statistics NIP 2008 Statistics
Total No. of applications 75,252 Total No. of applications 52,243
Total No. of applications verified 37,598 Total No. of applications verified 29,633
Total records at HEC Total records at HEC
(records collected from 125,000 (records collected from 81,058
universities) (approx) universities) (approx)
NIP 2009 Statistics
100%
6.6% 10.4%
90%
30.0%
80% 30.9% 19.7%
70%
60% 14.8%
81.5%
50%
40%
70.0%
30% 62.6%
55.2%
20%
7.7%
10%
10.8%
0%
General 2009 Sindh Rural Malakand Balochistan
Verified Records Rejected Records VerificationIn-process Records
45. Access to Microsoft Licensed Software to all
Collaborative Unified Communication for faculty
and staff of public sector universities/ institutes
IPv6 Research Test-bed across Pakistan
Hosted & Managed Services
10-months Trial Access of Turnitin to all private
sector universities
46. PABX -UOK IP-TELEPHONY
GSM NETWORK
Wireless
Public Telephone
Link
Network/NTC
Router
Universities/Regional Centers
Across the Country Analog User GSM-Router
BDS
OFFICE COMMUNICATOR
IP-Link
IP-Link
HEC-Exchange
Router
Local-User
Core Switch
Analog user
PABX-NUST
IP-User
IP-Link
Router
IP-Link Router
IP-Link
IP-Link
PERN/
VC-SETUP
Internet
VOICE / EMAIL
TMS
TCS MCU
47. Expansion of Unified Communication facility to
all the universities/ institutes
Digital Library Access @ Home
WiFi enabled Campuses: Hot Spots & Docking
Networks
Handheld Computing Devices with Broadband
connectivity to students and faculty
Electronic Theses Digitization
Online Payment System
48. Lack of Collaborative Applications and behaviors
◦ Professional Networking
◦ Collaboration Plat Forms
Software Applications Product To Brand
Transition
◦ Google , Eprints , People Soft , Linux , LANCOP etc
Network Oriented Research Applications
◦ LHC , Grid Computing , Image Processing etc.
◦ Telemedicine , Weather Forecasting etc.
Cyber Security and Self Reliance Networks
50. Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project
◦ A World Bank funded project
HEC is amongst the six (06) shortlisted potential
Consultants who have been asked to submit
Technical and Financial proposals
UGC e-Management/ HEMIS
◦ Consultancy Services being requested
Project Management, System Architecture, Business Processes
Automation, Hardware Infrastructure, Software design, and HEMIS
◦ Services being offered
Project Management, Solution Architecture, Domain Analysts, Web
Portal, Data Center, Business Processes Automation, Network/
Systems/ Security/ Power Specialist, HEMIS Specialist, and
Implementation Supervision.
51. Pan-Islamic Research & Education Network
◦ A project being initiated by Islamic
Educational, Scientific and Culture Organization
Concept Paper approved by ISESCO
First meeting is being scheduled for 1st week of
March 2012
◦ Participation is requested from
Algeria, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, Turkey, Uganda
◦ Project proposal, guidelines, and organization formation
of PIREN Foundation has been prepared.
52. Q&A
Ch Abdulla Fayyaz Chattha
Director Operations (PERN)
Higher Education Commission
Islamabad – Pakistan
achattha@hec.gov.pk, achattha@pern.edu.pk
http://www.hec.gov.pk ; http://www.pern.edu.pk
Notes de l'éditeur
8Mbps Bandwidth is commissioned to KIU as per requirement at the rate of Rs. 36,450 per MB (400$) , revised for 32mb (300 $)
No. of CAL’s activated: 193 out of 264 providedMSP’s: Mr. Obaid Ullah.NET Club: One . NET club formedeLMS Portal: Activatedfor the provisioning of free access to the licensed software to the faculty, staff and studentsFaculty Connections: Provided to more than 10 faculty members, Syed Najam Deployment Status: “Mr. Irfan will send the email”Imagine Cup: Letters sent but no nomination of Project Supervisor received yetTrainings: Mr. Khalid attended the 5 days MOC based training at HEC RC LahoreOnline event: No participation in online events
