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In-demand tech skills that can boost your career in 2021 and beyond.
As the world of technology continues to change rapidly. demand for professionals with advanced IT skills has never been higher.
With technology roles dominating the lists of ‘best jobs’ or ‘most in-demand jobs for the future, we look at some of the most in-demand tech skills for 2021 which will help both increase your demand in the tech market and your value as an employee.
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New advances in technology are generally targeted at making our lives better, but any improvement will fall short if it fails to help us preserve and improve the world.
Even before the pandemic hit, the clock was already ticking on our ability to avert an impending climate crisis. The pandemic has given us some additional challenges in terms of balancing economic recovery with environmental sustainability, but it could also be viewed as offering an unprecedented opportunity.
Fortunately, 5G has been designed from the outset as a more energy-efficient technology than its predecessors, and it also has the potential to unlock broader environmental stewardship by means of a number of forward-looking use cases. By enabling behavioral changes, such as allowing larger numbers of people to work from home or almost anywhere else (WFX) and by improving fleet management for efficient transport, 5G could both, directly and indirectly, support measures that improve the quality and management of water, air, and soil, and also nurture other key parts of the environment like forests.

Let every one of us Pakistanis take an oath on this Independence Day to make our country the one that is most readily useful in the foreseeable future world. wishing independence day.

Blockchain technology is a mind-blowing application of Ethereum and Bitcoin. It allows fast transfer of digital assets online without the involvement of third-party like banks or any government institute. Bitcoin and blockchain allow users to complete financial transactions with ease. The way the system works is quite transparent, secure, and fast.
The primary advantage of blockchain technology is that an individual can send or receive money from anywhere in the world at any time. Cryptocurrencies are quite famous as it provides instant payment settlement method to its users. Banks and other financial institutions take a lot of time to verify transactions but blockchain technology takes less time than them.

Neuralink is a technology that can help humans interact with machines using their brains.
Elon Musk’s ambitious project of connecting the human brain to the internet to help control machines is almost at the stage of being released for commercial use.
More prominently known as Neuralink, the company disclosed on 28 August 2020 their brain-computer interface tech on live pigs, showing the neurons inside the pig’s brain firing in real-time. Neuralink could push forward studies in fields of neuroanatomy and neuroscience by years.
So let’s take a look at what Neuralink is all about.
Neuralink is a device, specifically, a Brain-Machine Interface, that will be surgically implanted into your brain and with it, you’ll be able to communicate with machines and even control them. It will also help study and cure various medical problems.

Windows 11 was announced last week, but Microsoft never revealed a precise launch date, only saying that it’s coming “this holiday”. However, taking a closer look at the official Windows 11 images shows hints towards an October launch.
Windows 11 Can Make Your PC Faster:
The image below shows Windows 11 signed in with Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer’s account Panos Panay. At the top right corner, there is a Microsoft Teams message from Stevie Bathiche of the Surface Team which says “Good luck today, Panos! Excited to turn it up to 11… can’t wait for October!”.
Additionally, the official Windows 11 promo images shown by Microsoft on its website also have the October 20, 2021 date in the taskbar. This can still be seen on the Windows 11 page on Microsoft’s website.
Even the retail giant Walmart seems to know something we don’t, as it has been hinting on the date as well. The company says this with some of the laptops it’s selling:
Free Upgrade to Windows October 2021. Upgrade rollout plan is being finalized and is scheduled to begin late in 2021 and continue into 2022
However, keep in mind that the date will only become official once Microsoft announces it, which is expected to happen over the coming months.

The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) influences the growth of many industries such as Healthcare, Fintech, Digital Marketing, Information Technology, Logistics, and supply chain, Agriculture, to name a few. Among the broad array of industries, AI is proving to be a real game-changer in the digital marketing sector.
Last year, Google Analytics rolled out the GA4 tag in addition to the UA (Universal Analytics) tag, based on machine learning technology. With this technology, the data can be manipulated over the website.
Considering that user behavior and data analytics play an important role in digital marketing, leveraging AI will be the most efficient way to maximize business operations. Especially when you consider building strategies for SEO(Search Engine Optimization), PPC(Pay Per Click), and Social Media Marketing, Artificial Intelligence stands out as the trendy choice.

In recent news, the Ministry of Commerce organized a one-day Virtual E-Commerce Youth Conference with the Kamyab Jawan Program and USAID PREIA where the main aim was to provide Pakistan’s youth empowerment through the ever-growing e-commerce sector by implementing the National E-Commerce policy.
The National E-Commerce policy, based on ‘Empowering Youth and SMEs through e-commerce’, aims to collaborate with the government to run special initiatives and accelerate the digital skills within Pakistan’s youth.
The conference's opening ceremony was attended by the Parliamentary Secretary for Commerce, Miss Aliya Hamza Malik, and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs, Mr. Usman Dar.
Miss Aliya mentioned in her opening note that the focus currently is to empower young entrepreneurs by providing them access to finance and digital skills training while ensuring consumer protection and improving the ICT and telecom infrastructure.
Moreover, the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs highlighted how the Kamyab Jawan Program and its respective initiatives, such as the Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme (YES),, such focus on promoting e-commerce businesses.
In the end, group discussions were held on numerous topics in regards to the country’s progress and the current crisis it faced followed by closing remarks from the Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Muhammad Sualeh Ahmad Faruqui.

Pakistan has entered the $1 trillion global cloud kitchen market during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As restaurant owners cope with lockdown restrictions and government SOPs to prevent the spread of the virus, the cloud kitchen market has grown in Pakistan. A cloud kitchen restaurant operates as a ghost kitchen on a delivery-only model. It has a ghost kitchen that contains kitchen equipment and facilities but has no dining area for walk-in customers.
The global cloud kitchen market relies on online orders placed through a website, mobile app, or online food aggregators.
Abdus Samad Rashid, founder, and CEO of Hotpod explains here that “Cloud kitchens help food brands discover themselves digitally. The coronavirus situation has also acted as a steroid to the idea which was already gaining popularity due to the mounting costs of restaurants.”
Hotpod is the first shared cloud kitchen in Pakistan. It is a Karachi-based kitchen that operates as a Service (KaaS) platform enabling restaurants and food owners to expand their network by accessing a managed kitchen infrastructure with minimum capital risk, zero hassle, time-saving, and excellence in customer service. Hotpod has launched its operations from 3 kitchens in Karachi and plans to expand to more than 50 shared cloud kitchens in the country.
The potential of the cloud market in Pakistan is roughly about Rs7.5 billion ($47 million) per year. "The major drivers behind the success of cloud kitchen business included high demand for online food delivery, rising real-estate costs, and coronavirus infections," says Adeel Hashmi, the Chief Growth Officer at Hotpod.
While Pakistan's food industry is estimated to be around Rs20 billion per year, the introduction of cloud kitchens can boost revenue for restaurant owners which were adversely affected by the pandemic.

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet is fast approaching the speed of regular broadband, a test has found.
Elon Musk's space-based network, which beams internet down from 1,650 satellites in orbit, recorded an average download speed of 97.23 megabits per second (Mbps) in the second quarter of 2021, according to a report from Speedtest, published Wednesday.
Starlink wasn't too far off the average download speed for US fixed broadband providers. They averaged 115.22 Mbps during the second quarter, Speedtest said in its report.
Fixed broadband providers, including AT&T Internet and Comcast, deliver internet through a phone line or fiber optic cables.
Starlink's average download speed in the first quarter of 2021 was 65.72 Mbps, Speedtest said.
With a 100 Mbps download speed, users can download a film in under a minute, according to the USwitch speed calculator.
According to the Speedtest report, fixed broadband recorded median latency of 14 milliseconds (ms) in the second quarter. Starlink was the only satellite service to come close to this, with a latency of 45 ms, according to the report. Latency is a measure of the time it takes to send data and receive a response, and the shorter the time, the better.
Starlink has lower latency speeds than HughesNet and Viasat, competitors cited in the Speedtest report because its satellites are closer to Earth.
The Speedtest report showed that HughesNet and Viasat provided average download speeds of 19.73 Mbps and 18.13 Mbps respectively in the second quarter.
In October, Starlink told its users that they should expect download speeds between 50 and 150 Mbps and latency from 20ms to 40ms as the company enhanced its systems. However, some users have seen speeds of more than 210 Mbps.

Technology is not just an intellectual concept associated with advanced tools and systems. It is much more than that. It assists shape people’s actions, development, and adaptation in society. In terms of advancement, technology has supported bridge a global gap, enabling people to determine regarding the world and associate with each other in ways that were close to unachievable in the past.
Today, we can order tickets, flights, and hotel rooms to move conveniently around the world with a few valves on our mobile phones. Mobile banking and ATM machines have cleared financial executions more rationalized and quicker, with more productivity. Technology has escaped into every feature of our daily life whether it is interaction, conveyance, education, or employment.
But, unhappily, there still remain huge incorporation gaps when it occurs to digital assimilation in the improving world. In Pakistan too, the divide is widening and requires to be directed on priority. Fortunately, the country’s Information and Communications Technology sector is supporting a great share in promoting these spaces and guiding the people into the fold of digital insertion so the advantages of technology can be expanded to everyone.
Both telecom participants and ISPs are giving significantly to advancing the nation’s pace towards Digital Pakistan that would honor itself in an Information Technology-based recognition economy. From basic correspondence to internet retrieval, these players are trying to embrace more people digitally and alleviate their entrance to a world of opportunities, be it fitness, pedagogy, information, or work.
The telecom industry in Pakistan observed a high in data utilization, with the wide-band customer taking off to a hundred million in 2021 over the past years. This new, post-widespread normal has given the telecom industry a distinctive opportunity to provide the economy with an essential raise to meet the influence of the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
One of the ICT players conducting the digital adaption in Pakistan is Wateen Telecom. It has appeared as one of the important participants in the country’s encouraging Information and Communications Technology sector. It is one of the quickest-developing fiber-optic networks for businessmen, occupations, and Small and Medium Enterprises all over the country, with over thirty-five KM of modern fiber infrastructure, approaching two hundred forty cities across Pakistan.
With a new goal, Took with its commute in management, Wateen has performed a significant role in giving data and connectivity services to users and occupations alike. The organization has provided high-level services be it fiber, controlled amplitudes, VSAT networks.
Wateen businessmen are successfully done tactical from starting to finish Information and Communications Technology proposals with a government institution, Small and Medium Enterprises, large enterprises, the health sector, and monetary institutions.
The institution has maintained to promote extensible collaborations, owing to its extensive apartment of directed services profiles. As an institution that is persistently innovating to match raising demands, Wateen is on its way to lead Pakistan’s digital expedition with a large profile of users and enterprises depending on its services.
Surviving in a post-pandemic globally and having acquired availed to the new normal, we now understand the pivotal significance of digital eruption and smooth connectivity. It is our immediate occurrence how dependable internet access maintained us all safe from the fatal pandemic and also empowering us to perform everything remotely while performing social isolating.
To resemble our step with the rest of the world, the country’s digital field requires to be durable and smooth to remove the digital divide and provide connectivity possible for all. Furthermore, digital incorporation is also the very basic precept and measure for the digitalization that we envision for Pakistan.

Indonesia’s Floating solar photovoltaic (PV), initially considered a niche technology, is now the fastest-growing solar PV category, alongside ground-mounted utility-scale solar and rooftop PV. As of August 2020, more than 60 countries have actively pursued the deployment of floating PV, with more than 35 installing an estimated 350 operational floating PV systems, equal to a total 2.6 GW of installed capacity.
DNV acted as the Lender’s Technical Advisor, during the development phase, for Indonesia’s first-ever floating solar photovoltaic (PV) project at Cirata Reservoir in West Java. The project owner, PT. Indonesia’s Pembangkitan Jawa Bali Masdar Solar Energi (PMSE), is a joint venture between the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC – Masdar (MASDAR) and Indonesian state-owned electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) subsidiary PJBI.
Indonesia’s PMSE achieved financial close for the project on August 3, 2021, after the satisfactory completion of the lender’s due diligence review. The senior debt of the floating solar project is being provided by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Societe Generale, and Standard Chartered Bank.
Once operational, the 145 MWac Cirata floating PV plant will be one of the largest of its kind in South East Asia. The region is already home to several large-scale floating PV systems including Vietnam’s 70 MW FPV system in Quang Thanh and Singapore’s 60 MW facility at Tengah reservoir.
The Cirata floating PV project will have a plant capacity of 145 MWac. All power generated by the plant will be supplied and sold to PLN under a power purchase agreement (PPA).
DNV supported the first phase of the Cirata floating PV project, which began in April 2020 and involved pre-construction due diligence. DNV’s role included undertaking site studies, estimating solar resource data and energy yield, and reviewing the financial model’s technical assumptions.
\For Indonesia, which has historically relied on coal, gas, geothermal, and hydropower to produce electricity, the Cirata floating solar power plant is expected to pioneer significant growth in solar PV by demonstrating the technical and commercial feasibility of solar PV systems in the country.