The winners for the National Innovation Awards, being held for the first time by Pakistan Innovation Foundation, have been announced in an event at Serena Hotel, Islamabad.
Just last month, Pakistan Innovation Foundation(PIF) announced its plans to introduce National Innovation Awards in Pakistan as a part of its yearly conference event, the Pakistan Innovation Forum 2015. Today, the winners of the 12 categories of innovators, startups and universities have been announced.
Promoting a motto of “Make In Pakistan”, this event was geared at promoting innovation in Pakistan and giving birth to a culture of home-grown products and provide a platform to bring forward new innovators and startups.
Speaking at the event, the Chairman of Pakistan Innovation Foundation, Saad Amanullah Khan said:
“One of the three main streams of our work is about recognizing and rewarding Pakistani Innovators. We often feel there is no innovation in Pakistan and that is not correct. There are many exemplary things that happened in Pakistan from Orangi Pilot Project, to Easy Paisa, and the like and we must recognize those innovators so that the hands of others are strengthened. As Pakistan’s leading and only champion of Innovation, the National Innovation Awards is a way for PIF to do that.”
Here is the complete list of nominess and winners of the National Innovation Awards:
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The award for the most innovative university program went to Lahore University of Management Sciences, School of Science and Engineering.
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The Social Innovation award went to Pink Rikshaw, a women-only rickshaw service launched by Zar Aslam, president of Pakistan’s non-profit Environment Protection Fund, for the women of Pakistan.
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In Corporate Innovation, Qarshi Industries claimed the first award.
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The award for the most innovative tech startup was nabbed by SoloInsight, a company speciliazing in biometric devices and led by one of the best entrepreneurial minds in the country, Farhan Masood.
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The first position in the category of Fintech Innovation was achieved by Tameer Bank and Telenor for their service EasyPaisa while the runner up was also claimed by Tameer Bank’s “Sehat O Sakoon”.
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The Civic Innovation Award went to The Second Floor(T2F), a community space to promote open dialogue and free-speech. The community was founded and led by Sabeen Mahmud, a human right activist and NGO worker who was gunned down in April this year. The runner up award went to the Khyber Pakthunkhwa based startup community, Peshawar 2.0.
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In Government Innovation, NADRA managed to scrape the winning position due to their incredible work in revolutionizing the country’s national Identity Card system and bringing it up to date with the latest technologies.
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The winner of the award for Health Innovation was ProCheck, a pharmaceutical industry based portal and also the creator of an anti-counterfeiting application, Asli Goli. The runners up was claimed by doctHERS
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The award for Education Innovation went to School ofVisuals and Practicals(SOVAP) by IBA Sukkur.
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The award for agriculture and rural innovation went to National Institute for Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering – NIBGE, while E4 technologies made it to the runner up position.
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The National Innovation Award for Industrial Innovation went to Packages, a shopping centre that is under construction in Lahore. The runner up in this category was Forward Sports.
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The winner for the best Art and Design Innovation was Coke Studio, the Coke-sponsored music television show that has been winning hearts around Pakistan for their live studio-recorded music performances by various popular artists, while the runner up went to Burka Avenger.
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