Mapping Voters Turnout in Pakistan

Higher turnout makes the democratic governments more strong, and at the same time makes Governments more accountable to the people of the country.

In any democratic system voters turnout is the most common and probably most important component of the individual's participation in the Political process. Economic, demographic, cultural, natural, technological and institutional factors effect the voters turnout in a country. However, one agreeable fact is that higher voters turnouts provide legitimacy to the elections and Governments. 

In recent Egypt elections; more more than 70% of the voters participated in the first and second stage of the elections. That shows the will of the people to drive change in the country. Today, Pakistan is at a very crucial stage in its very short democratic life span. History has shown that most of the people in Pakistan do not take part in the elections; showing their lack of belief in the change through electoral process. In Pakistan, the highest voters turnout (55%) was observed in 1955 elections. http://pakreport.org/dowevote/#comparison

As maps with the interactive statistics are the right tools to tell story on the Internet today, our team compiled 2008 National assembly data and created the interactive chart to show how many percent of voters take part in elections in 2008 and launched http://www.pakreport.org/dowevote. You can zoom the map to the district level to see how many of us take part in the electoral process from each part of Pakistan.

The map shows the parts of the country where voters turnout ranges from 12.8% (Bajur Agency) to 67.33% (Bhakkar) percent. 

Our efforts are to demonstrate that low voters participation is not a path forward to change in our country. Higher participation of the common people in the elections and steps of the Government to make voting easy for every one are the key factors to sustain democracy in Pakistan. DoWeVote map is first effort and we need your involvement and feedback to take this step forward.

We hope we will see more active participation from people of Pakistan in electoral process and higher voter turnouts in next elections!

A project of BrightSpyre team for promoting democracy in Pakistan.

Google Summer of Code Program 2011. Opportunity for Pakistani Students

March 2011 is closing. Pakistan has at-least 150 educational institutes offering computer science and related degrees, where approximately 10,000 students graduate every year.

After 45 days, as summer will be approaching, students will have a plenty of time to do something. Living in a country where opportunities are not as abundant as in the developed world, it is very important for all the students to look for opportunities in the global context.

It is time to explore and pitch for the every possible internship or part time work opportunity  locally and globally that can make best of the time available in the summer period. In the words of Seth Godin “Go. Do that”. And these three words that make you do actions and apply for these programs.

We wanted to focus on our blog about a few important opportunities that Pakistani Students should try to avail during summer of 2011. One of them is

1. Google Summer of Code 2011

According to Google Summer of Code Program “Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects.” In this program along with students Google works with several open source, free software, non profit organisations that are developing software, and technology-related groups to identify and fund projects over a three month period.

Also through this program Students are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects (175 open source projects are selected for 2011, see a complete list of selected organizations here), thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits.

At this time selection of participant organisations is complete, student applications are opening after 4 days on 28th of March 2011. Along with working with the best organisations of the world to sharpen and learn new skills the program offers US $5,000 stipend.

The deadline to apply for students is 8th of April 2011 and complete timeline is available here and very detailed instructions on how to apply for students are available on the Google summer of code program website and can be find out by joining Internet Relay Chat (IRC) (now most of the discussions have moved to IRC channel and is open for everyone to join) or join Google mailing list (the mailing list is very active right now)

A few of the Pakistani students have been selected in the past in Google Summer of Code program including Mr. Adnan from Virtual university of Pakistan. This fact also negates the phenomena that only top university students have access to the opportunities in Pakistan.

BrightSpyre.com is not associated with Google Summer of Code Program. This post is written as per BrightSpyre's mission of "Connecting people with opportunities in Pakistan". Most of the information is referenced from the Google official summer of code program website 2011.

We may not answer any queries on this program but we may frequently post more updates about this or other relevant opportunities on our blog, twitter of facebook page.

BrightSpyre Hiring Cabin Crew for an European Airline

BrightSpyre, Pakistan’s largest job portal has always been facilitating its user by providing them with exciting job opportunities with the national and International Employers in all leading sectors from oil and gas, FMCG, Government, IT and Telecom to Non Profit Sector. This time BrightSpyre brings more than 40 Job Openings of “Cabin Crew” from an European Airline.

Recent addition of International Airline recruitment has further recognized BrightSpyre as Pakistan’s most trusted brand in online recruitment which is serving HR industry since 2002.

An European Airline is currently looking for its Cabin Crew Staff “Air Hostess” who has an Outgoing and Flexible Personality, is considerate, team orientated and appreciates working in a hectic environment. The basic requirements for the jobs are presentable personality and excellent communications skills. You can start your career or can move it to the next ladder by taking part in this exciting job opportunity and can prove yourself in only 3 hours.

Eligibility Criteria:

We're looking for people who have sociability and kind nature towards unknown people and can handle crisis or tough situation with rational and have excellent Physical Stamina. If you're ready to discover just how far your talents can take you, we invite you to explore it from this exciting opportunity. From there, how far you go is up to you.

The basic requirement for the jobs is Proportionate figure with good body language, Excellent
Communication skills (Fluency in English, Urdu, and knowledge of an international language is an added advantage) and voice quality.

For complete job detail click here Air Hostess

Procedure:

All applicants need to apply online on www.brightspyre.com. Shortlisted candidates will be considered for further processing. The recruitment process will involve pre screening by BrightSpyre. The shortlisted candidates have to undergo an assessment center/group discussion followed by a personal interview by Concerned Airline team at a suitable place in Rawalpindi/ Islamabad in next 30 to 45 days. Candidates also have to take part in the water activities like swimming to qualify for appointment.

Spread this message with your friends to let them know about this exciting opportunity.

If you have any queries, feel free to contact us on 051 287 1173 or send email on hr@brighspyre.com