INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Collaborations Industrial collaborations

Industrial collaborations

IGIS industry partners for various Academia-Industry collaboration domain include:

  • Earth Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA), Pakistan
  • LMKT, Pakistan
  • e-Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd, Pakistan
  • Associates in Development (Pvt.​), Ltd, Pakistan
  • TPL Maps

IGIS-SCEE is involved in various research projects with national and international collaborations. Few of the collaborations are shown in Table.

Collaborating/Consulting Projects

IGIS-SCEE is also providing consultancy services to Geoinformatics industry and various other organisations in Pakistan. Few of the services provided by IGIS-SCEE are tabulated in Table.

S.No Research/Consultancy Project Location Collaborating Agency IGIS Team/Rep
Development of a National Gender Portal Islamabad UN Women
NCSW		 Dr. Ali Tahir
Impacts of climate vulnerabilities on crop production and agriculture water resources management in Indus Basin, Pakistan Islamabad University of Zurich, Switzerland Dr. Muhammad Azmat

IGIS held different events with collaboration of its Industry partners:

S.No Company name Date of event Type of event Type (Online or on-campus)
1. Zameen.Com 2-3 May 2018 Career Fair, Employer Presentation On Campus
2. LMKT,TPL,  Magma Systems, UNOCHA 10 May 2018 Open House/ Job fair On Campus
3. Zameen.Com 14 Nov 2018 Career Fair, Employer Presentation) On Campus

 

Many other industries each year offer internship opportunities to IGIS students, a glimpse of 2022 is as under:

Sr.No Company name Internships offered 
1. Burraq Geoservices 1
2. C4I 5
3. DHAI 5
4. GCISC 4
5. Ministry of Climate Change 5
6. NDMA 6
7. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics 2
8. PMD 3
9. Own Arrangement 2
10.  Bakhabar Kisaan 1

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Industry Visits

Students of IGIS frequently visit prominent governmental and private organisations e.g. Survey Of Pakistan, TPL Maps, Geological Survey of Pakistan, Army Survey Group; in order to familiarize them with Industry practices of their field.

Some recent Industry visits of BE- GeoInformatics, IGIS include:

  1. Geosciences Advanced Research Laboratory, Islamabad
  2. Technology Incubation Center (TIC) NUST
  3. Survey Of Pakistan
  4. Global Change Impact Studies Center
  5. Pakistan Agriculture Research Council
  6. TPL Islamabad
  7. Cavalier Rawalpindi
  8. National Science and Technology Park
  9. Rawal Dam
  10. National Incubation Center

Recent Collaborations