Mudassir Sheikha is the co-founder and managing director of leading ride hailing service Careem. After graduating from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, where he studied Computer Science and Economics, Sheikha spent a decade in Silicon Valley building technology startups. …Continue reading
An insight into e-voting in 2019 Indian elections
Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi is a former chief election commissioner of India. He has authored the book An Undocumented Wonder – The Making of the Great Indian Election. MIT Technology Review reached out to him for insight on technological interventions undertaken over the …Continue reading
Why drones often aren’t the solution to developing-world problems
New technologies are never introduced into a vacuum. They emerge into a social, economic, and political setting and influence it in their turn. Katherine Chandler, a professor in the culture and politics program at Georgetown University, is researching drones in Africa as …Continue reading
How AlphaZero has rewritten the rules of game play on its own
David Silver invented something that might be more inventive than he is. Silver was the lead researcher on AlphaGo, a computer program that learned to play Go—a famously tricky game that exploits human intuition rather than clear rules of play—by studying games …Continue reading
How can technology help plan cities better?
MIT Technology Review sat down with three urban policy and planning experts to discuss issues in sustainable development in Pakistani cities. Mapping the fast evolving frontiers You have critiqued the methodology employed in the last census to categorize space as urban and …Continue reading
Q&A: Ali Tauqeer Sheikh
Ali Tauqeer Sheikh is the Chief Executive Officer of the Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan, an organization engaged in research and policy advocacy on sustainable development. Sheikh has previously served as an advisor to the Asian Development Bank, European Commission, …Continue reading
Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists
Look at how long people are living, the reduction of under-five mortality, the reduction in how poorly women are treated. Globally, inequity is down: poorer countries are getting richer faster than the richer countries are getting richer. The bulk of humanity lives …Continue reading
Rabeel Warraich
Rabeel Warraich is the founder of Sarmayacar, a multi-million dollar seed fund syndicate dedicated to Pakistani startups. He is currently the interim chief executive officer of Patari and has previously worked in investment banking and private equity with organizations including Morgan Stanley …Continue reading
SynBio takes centerstage
Dr Faisal Khan is the founding director of the Institute of Integrative Biosciences at CECOS University, Peshawar. He completed his doctoral studies on the intersection of Cell Biology and Systems Biology at the University of Oxford, where he was a member of …Continue reading
Social networks are broken. This man wants to fix them.
In the past, if you wanted to change the world, you had to pass a law or start a war. Now you create a hashtag. Ethan Zuckerman studies how people change the world, or attempt to, by using social media or other …Continue reading