The GastroPak Project worth £2 million funding in Pakistan by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), is a collaboration with partners in Pakistan, UK and Ireland. It is one of the 141 new international development research projects announced by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) to generate innovative solutions to…
The scale of wireless technologies penetration in our daily lives, primarily triggered by the Internet-of-things (IoT)-based smart cities, is beaconing the possibilities of novel localization and tracking techniques. With the development of 5G networks, the need for GPS free localization for the provision of location-based services is becoming more and more important. The inherent high-power…
In the words of Thomas Friedman, this world is flat. So, does Friedman belong to the flat earth society? What Friedman wants us to know is that the contemporary world is interconnected and increasingly interdependent; i.e., what happens in one part of the world influences the rest of it. Events like the fall of…
The coronavirus pandemic has swept away the fabric of governance worldwide like strong wind blows away garments hung on the clothesline to dry. In place of a sense of control and direction which was until recently the universal hallmark of the managers and directors of the affairs of the state, there is now a widespread…
A corollary of Buckminster Fuller’s Knowledge Doubling Curve states that the knowledge created since 1900 exceeds the sum total of knowledge created by mankind since the start of recorded history. The pace at which new knowledge is created, and applied towards the development of technologies, is exhaustive and exceedingly hard to track even by ardent…
The twin concepts and mechanisms of the balance of power and power maximization act as key global geopolitical drivers in the current international system. What these concepts mean in the simplest terms is this: the anarchic nature of the international system compels states to act as relentless power acquisition entities in order to ensure their…
