Blah Blah from The TeaBreak Team.

Sofizar Pvt Limited has joined hands with P@SHA this year to announce the Sofizar Constellation Award for the winner of the Tertiary Student Category in the P@SHA ICT Awards 2009.

What that means in essence is that the winner of this category will receive:
1. An Award which will be presented to her/him by the Founder of Sofizar, Zafar Khan
2. A round-trip economy class ticket to Melbourne to participate in the Asia Pacific ICT Awards in mid-December 2009
3. Hotel Accommodation in Melbourne during APICTA
4. A Netbook

The announcement of this Award shows how far the Pakistan IT industry has come – when young companies start to promote innovation by encouraging budding new talent, it certainly shows that we are on a take-off stage to bigger and better things. Thanks to Zafar Khan for joining hands with P@SHA in driving ICT innovation in this country to a new level.

Sofizar is a Carlsbad, CA based internet marketing company with development and operations based out of Lahore, Pakistan. Sofizar is aggressively pursuing a very rapid growth path with its experienced management, excellent team and a great track record since its inception in April, 2004. In FY 2007, Sofizar recorded an 800% growth rate and there is no stopping them. Amazing company. Amazing people. Yet another success story that isn’t highlighted enough.

If you haven’t already watched Zafar’s interview on ITLoW, do it now!

This is an opportunity for university kids from across Pakistan. Nominate your  project for the P@SHA ICT Awards before September 24 and win the Sofizar Constellation Award. Wow things are really cooking now. I betcha there is another company out there waiting in the wings to announce an Award for those bright innovative kids with great ideas that we know are out there.

Here are details regarding the category:

Best of Tertiary Student Project – Software / Hardware

This Award is presented to the most innovative ICT software and or hardware project from students of Institutions of Higher Learning. Any ICT project that is conducted by a student or a group of students who are formally enrolled in an institution of higher-learning, such as college or university, excluding Master and Doctorate programs.

Nomination forms can be downloaded from the P@SHA ICT Awards website.

This cup of tea was served by: In the Line of Wire