Local IT talent: Can we stop Ibad?
Pakistan is a very unfortunate country that it has lot of talent in various fields of life. The reason I said unfortunate because we always get failed to take advantage of our local resources and outsiders take full advantage of them and use them for their economy. We have habit to ofend local talent due to some lame reason whether it’s field of science and technology,education or arts, we love to ignore our talent and when it’s respected by others then we run after them. The very latest example is Pakistani comedians like Shakil Teeli,Kashif Khan and Rauf lala who were never respected in Pakistan but when India gave them respect then they are now invited in different cermonies. Irony!
Two and half years back I made a post about some local talent which were not respected in home which made an excuse to leave this country and earn outside. I mentioned about Adnan sabzwari who had made Pakistan’s first animated movie back in 90s when we could not think about animation in Pakistan then I made a post on the occasion of Pakistan’s 60th birthday and made an attempt to pay tribute our IT stars who made us proud in outer world. Most of people mentioned in that post left Pakistan for sake of better future since they were not able to do much in this country which actually pays more respect to ignorant and illetrate politicians than talented people.
Recently I came across an interview about a local IT talent in Jang paper who made a software to overcome plane hijacking.
Meet Ibad Ahmad who belongs to IT field. Ibad has made an anti-hijacking system which can regain the control of plane with in a minute!Yes, within a minute.
Details of the system are not mentioned( and I can understand the reason) . The article says he and his pals started this project but all of his pals got disappointed and leave him but this courageous guy never gave up and kept trying and one day he became successfull.
The thing which actually impressed me is NOT the technology but his passion for this country. When the interviewer asked him that why didn’t he sell his solution to some foriegn or 3rd party company, he said, “My objective is not to earn money only, I want to open the doors for other youngesters as well. If I would have sold this system to someone then could I serve my country?”
Amazing, simply amazing. This guy deserves to be respected but the question is, can our appreciation be helpful for him? Like majority of youngers, Ibad is pretty much disappointed about the future of software development in Pakistan.
Ibad has given a deadline of 18th Feb. After that like many other fresh brains, he would also fly to US or Europe where he would be given a respect which he deserves and money which he could not get in Pakistan. I am sure Ibad would not feel comfortable since it would give him pain that his services are not being helpful for his own people. When Ibad will get famous in western world due to his work then we would come out of ignorance and think, “Oh , he’s the same guy who made something for our comfort but we threw him out”. we will then respect him and give him job offers. In urdu there is an idiom, Thook kay Chaatna. we are like such people. Curse upon us. I don’t know how many more Ibads we have to lose. All I know that we have to stop this brain drain anyway. If we really have to export something then we should export our flith in the form of politicians so that it could be helpful for us. I just hope that someone read about him and can do something for his product.
Ibad also claims that he could make a security system which can guard banks,pumps etc and there would be no need to hire guards. Ironically he’s not being taken seriously. We literally going to lose a gem due to our ignorance. I don’t know how to stop this guy. Can you stop Ibad for sake of this country?
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February 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 am
I could try to stop him by pleading with him, but I dont think that would stop him. Secondly I could interview him, and let the more people know about him. If we cannot stop him, at least we could tell people about the loss we are going to suffer.
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
ppl are pather dil now. they will not do any thing . They have been just made to run for aata and ghee
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February 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
This article made me sad and VERY frustrated at our pathetic people. Ibad- Ya Allah, truly a being to cherish. I am very dissappointed after reading this, and very angry…
February 5th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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February 7th, 2008 at 10:25 am
If ibad wants to stay back, then he must be needing one good reason to do so. I dont think of one myself. One thing that is compelling me to be around is my parents. nothing else matters to me. This country dont give a bother about respecting Edhi in the eyes of foriegners then how can i make him stop for nothing?
For Ibad, i think his ideas needs to be exposed. It has to be on media. People should know about him. Other, i think he should start his own company for products development.
Adan!! If you got him in contact.. make him come over to some forum.. and we can discuss the future prospects here. He just needs to be exposed. I came across one workshop about cyber security and there i saw many of security guys who are here and helping out. If i can be of any help in contacts, do let me know.
Thanks for wonderful post.. Keep on rocking!!
February 7th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I think if he can’t sell his idea, he aint an entrepreneur, just a nerd sitting behind a cubicle somewhere. its not THAT very difficult to sell a software idea in Pakistan AND abroad!
By the way, reading the statements like, “…he gave a deadline…”, it makes me wonder whether he is pleading someone to buy his software or he thinks he made something so great that people will just come attracted to the smell of it and he would be sitting up on his ass till the deadline comes!
y not forward this to PSEB and PASHA for a change, see what happens?
February 8th, 2008 at 11:23 am
good idea from grapesaresour. Bring him on in some forum or in media.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I wonder how this software would work? May be I don’t know much about software development cause for me, I have to be able to create the scenario or atleast know the parameters that play role.
Honestly if someone asks me to write an anti-hijacking software righ now, I would just do
while (Plane.notOnGroud)
{
if (Plane.isHijacked)
{
while (still.hijacked)
{
Response.write (”Please stop hijacking”);
}
}
else
{
Response.write (”Not Hijacked Yet”);
}
}
I think this software would still stop hijacking.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Is there any reference to this news. Who has acknowledged his work. Whats the proof that the software works. Any papers published? So many questions that need to be asked before you even think of stopping him or not. And its his disicion to go or no who the fuck are we to decide wether he should go or not. And we he is so smart to write a good software then he will make a smart deision. Can we stop convencing other people that our way is right and stop being pretentious.
And you trust the news so much that you heared the interview and you started believing it for heaven sake do some reaseach about this guy before you write a blog just for your bias and rants. you fukin moron.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:57 am
@AdhaNaan: did yo just want to make comment or was dying to show off your class and background by swearing at me?
first of all, this is a BLOG not IEEE website where I have to put research papers as referrence. Second it belongs to me. Third I just shared a news which appeared in a paper. As far as knowing the details, i emailed to the guy but so far got no answer. I wanted ti know more about his system before publishing here but when I got no answer then i had no option other than referring paper news.
so be mature and throw up your frustration somewhere else.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 am
ASALAM O ALIKUM
IAM CREAT THIS PROGRAME AND DEVICE TO STOP PLAN HIJECKING WITH IN 60SEC.
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