1324 AH TALIQA
1940 – Radio address of H.R.H Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan-III directed to our region.
1940 – Radio address of H.R.H Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan-III directed to our region.
1946 – Establishment
of D.J. Schools and D.J. Hostel in Gilgit in 1949 and SKH in 1967.
1957 – to date: AKDN
facilitation through various agencies/institutions.
2001 – Key Note
speech: Speech by His Highness
the Aga Khan; Washington D.C., USA,
22 April 2001 - Centenary Celebration Meeting, Association of American
Universities - Making a Difference: Reflections on Shared Problems, Shared
Opportunities and Shared Responsibilities in International Higher Education
(Washington D.C., USA)
2001 – Establishment through unified efforts, by
Association of American Universities [especially MIT, STANFORD and HARDVARD] in
promoting MOOCs/OPEN EDUCATION.
2010 – Establishment of 14 excellent centers through government
schools in all districts of GB by PDCN.
2013 – Individual efforts to establish “idea demonstration
projects” in Hunza as “life long learning/Telemedicine” centers – including
activation of the center located in Government Model High School Karimabad
established by PDCN and appeal for mass participation as an essential step
towards a better future.
NOTE:
1.
Integration of outernet makes every home a world class university. For a
demonstration you can visit the model project at my residence in Hunza.
2.
TARGETS
FOR AKRSP/LSOs:
a. TARGET
ONE: In twenty five years’ time span, improve the economic conditions so that
populations in Northern areas and Chitral can meet the ever increasing costs of health and
education and also become SELF SUSTAINING.
b.
TARGET TWO. Groom indigenous leadership capable
of establishing democracy, (pre-requisite for meritocracy and pluralism) and
also capable of planning for a better quality of life for their future without
external inputs.
c.
TARGET THREE: Facilitate establishment of Knowledge Society in
the Program Area (included in 2003).
3. “I think I am fortunate to be able to talk to you about
serious issues and for you to understand to position the Jamat correctly for the next
decades where I would like the Jamat to be, Insha-Allah, in the world in
10 years, 15 years, 20 years.” 13
December 2008
4. The conviction that
home-grown intellectual leadership of exceptional caliber is the best driver of
society’s future development, and that many developing country education
systems are too engulfed by poverty and numbers to develop their talented young
people - hence the KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY INITIATIVE.
5. March towards global
leadership will involve following steps:
- Get rid of BEGGING BOWL/QARATANG MENTALITY
- Develop HUMAN RESOURCES AND ENERGY THROUGH CIVIL SOCIETY:
a. ENERGY: 100-MW in next 20-years through
proposed “HUNZA POWER SUPPLY COMPANY” – A joint ownership of all HUNZUKUTZ
through their LSOs – idea demonstrator project working in KHURUKUSHAL KHAN
since September 2013. FLOATING HYDROPOWER GENERATOR
b. HR:
Through LIFELONG LEARNING CENTERS/OPEN UNIVERSITIES, first one –
SASLLC/OPEN UNIVERSITY– already in operation in Government Model High School
Karimabad.
1)
STEPS:
a) Determine your aptitude through an ON-LINE
course – Example on this link: AptitudeTest Online Course.
b) Choose a subject/specialty out of the
25,516 courses through SASLLC, example link: CONSORTIUM.
c) Download the COACHING material and go for
your specialty.
d) For details of the ROAD-MAP go through the
post on this link:
http://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2010/02/introduction-to-hdf.html
http://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2010/02/introduction-to-hdf.html
6.
Extracts
from the Minutes of the Meeting of His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami
Ismaili council for Pakistan held on March 29th and 30th, 2003 at Conference
Hall, PindiJamatkhana premises, Rawalpindi-Islamabad.
(presided
by Brig Hisamullah Beg)
Responding to an observation IW told the house that Ismailis
working with AKRSP are very old and not seems to fit into new system and that
is why others are more in numbers and in percentage.
Brig Beg observed that a transparent competitive procedure
is likely to result in selection of 90 percent Ismailis in different positions
and advocated a blatant meritocratic competition and opined that such a course
would not face serious challenges from pressure groups as faced previously and
also in the present process. This assessment was not shared by many and
accordingly it was proposed that the council should diagnose the reasons for
lack of competence among Ismailis in coming up to standards and chalk out a
road map for the future.
To this a discussion went on amongst the members as to why
AKDN institutions are not getting good Ismailis. Sharing her viewpoint, Laila
Dossa, a member NC said that we don't want to pay well and do not know how to
retain them, the fellow joins the institution as if he is serving the cause and
then feels squeezed and leaves quietly.
Wrapping up the subject AP said it's good to consider merit
as criteria but we also need to consider the Ismaili constituency. We need to
keep balance keep both merit and Ismaili. If we are not able to find Ismailis
competent enough we should train them to be qualified on merit. He also
proposed to form a committee to address the subject and requested LD to come up
with recommendations.
Higher
Education and Scholarships: We have realized in the March
meeting that Ismaili candidates do not dominate on merit for job opportunities
in AKDN. Competitive human resources can be developed only through access to
higher education and proper stress for the same in award of scholarship and
loans. My proposals for "Facilitation in accessing higher education"
is through re-course to "distance learning" proposal as an immediate
short-term measure. We
recall the keynote address delivered by our Mawla to the MIT two years back and
recent policy announcement by MIT. MIT wants to initiate a global revolution in
education and towards the same making the course material available free on the
internet. Mawla's directions to AKU-IED and the university of Central Asia are
well known to the leadership. The GOP IT policy gives the shape of things
emerging in Pakistan.
We need to adopt this cost-effective and feasible solution
in all our institutional policies at almost every local council/ VO/ the Jamat
Khana and AKDN offices at all levels. Requirement for AKU is to facilitate
asynchronous transmissions directly from the satellites to the centers within
the limits of already purchased
bandwidth.
As regards to the
scholarships I will illustrate my point by a chart which indicates a
distribution of scholarships during Five
years which has been extracted from the databases recently released by the
AKES. This shows out of 72 scholarship (between 1995 - 2000), 47 having been
allotted in Karachi, 4 in Sind, 3 in Punjab, 5 in NWFP, 8 in NA and 2 in
Chitral. We need to reassess the HR needs of these regions and set specific
targets in numbers as well as specialties. I would like the leaders to come up
with recommendations on this or alternate proposal, which we may give to the
AKDN.
NOTE: As a
result the change in appointment policy took place. On this occasion AKRSP was
expected to include a third target “Facilitate establishment of Knowledge Societies” in addition to
the two laid down at the time of launching of the institution.
TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES
TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES
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