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Amitha Amarasinghe discusses the use of social media by the corporates in Sri Lanka and ponders whether there are any social media success stories in Sri Lanka.
Talha Bin Ayub at Teeth Maestro takes a look into the sordid state of health care delivery systems in Pakistan.
The Noun Project blog introduces an innovative project titled Urban Launchpad, which uses mobile apps for data gathering to better understand the complex transportation conditions in Bangladesh.
Freedom Of Expression In SriLanka reports that six websites including Ravaya News have recently been blocked within Sri Lanka.
Salman Latif informs that an initiative has been taken by eminent journalists and media personnel to agree to a set of self regulatory guidelines for TV channels in Pakistan. Salman asserts that a similar measure should also be taken for the social media.
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It is of course a very big problem that paypal and ebay services are not available in Pakistan and Afghanistan. I once emailed paypal and aksed what was the problem. They replied that the government of Pakistan was not agreeing on some conditions.
Both the government of Pakistan and the service providers should agree on all things as a very big population is deprived of these facilities.
I support the open letter.
Thank you for supporting the open letter. InshahAllah something will come out of it. If nothing else, in April/May I shall be meeting up with both these gentlemen via the Eisenhower fellowship – and hopefully would be able to plead the case personally.
Yes of course Pakistan really need such a great services here.
Isn’t there some possibility that PayPal instead of negotiating with the government, uses private financial institutes like banks. So if they e.g. recognize bank abc of pakistan, all people who have account / credit card from bank abc can use paypal. And over time more banks can affiliate?
I think they need government approval to handle fraud cases?