With a vision to cater to students with a knack for mobile
app development at a university level, Nokia Pakistan and djuice conducted a Developer
Workshop at NED University which focused on imparting training to students on S40
devices. It was for the first time that Nokia Pakistan conducted a developer workshop solely
for students at a university. The venue for the workshop was Computer and Information
Systems Engineering Department where the trainer Syed Faraz Ahmed from Lakson
Business Solutions shared details of the development tools available to develop mobile
apps for S40 devices and gave hands-on training to participants.
Expressing her views, Rabia Azfar Nizami, Business Development Manager EDX, Near
East, NOKIA said, “I appreciate the interest level of NED University’s students to learn
and excel in their chosen field. Nokia has been organizing these kinds of workshops
for developers in Pakistan for the past 1 year and it is for the first time that it was being
solely organized for students. Nokia partnered with djuice and P@SHA to offer training for
S40 platform and the workshop was geared towards channelizing the strengths of these
students and providing them a rich bundle of resources to develop more locally relevant
mobile apps for S40 devices which are most popular among the masses in our country.”
At the workshop’s conclusion, certificates were distributed among all the participating
students. Ms. Nida Siddiqui was awarded a Nokia Asha 200 for her excellent performance
in the workshop while Mr. YasirTahir and Mr. Shayan Rais, both were awarded a djuice
connection & internet bundle by Ammar Waheed, Assistant Manager Content, Product
Development, djuice. Events of this nature are pertinent to take the local IT/Telecom
industry to the next level and enable better mobility experience for end consumers
especially in countries like Pakistan where majority of people use S40 mobile phones.
