UNICEF launches U-Report:PakAvaz in Pakistan

 The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched its flagship innovation programme U-Report: PakAvaz in Pakistan here on Monday.

The programme is an innovative mobile-based social monitoring tool designed for young people and communities to further strengthen the process of community development by acquiring direct feedback on social issues.

“UNICEF strongly believes that innovation is vital to ensure the well-being of the world’s children and adolescents,” said Cris Munduate, UNICEF Deputy Representative in Pakistan. “UNICEF has made significant progress in developing and implementing a Short Messaging Service (SMS) based communication platform to collect data and raise awareness on key social issues.”

Munduate further said, “As a result of this initiative, nearly two million people in the world have already joined hands to become agents of social change in their communities through the U-Report messaging system. We firmly believe that U-Report: PakAvaz can become a very strong platform for young people in Pakistan to express their opinion on social issues and bring about a positive change in improving the standards of service delivery to the communities.”

U-Report: PakAvaz is now live in Pakistan with over 6000 young people registered on the network. It works by allowing citizens to respond to polls asking for their opinion and feedback on a variety of social and governance issues through free text messages.

The growing ubiquity of mobile phones in the developing world is unlocking tremendous opportunities to amplify voices of young people via information and communication technologies. UNICEF believes that mobile phones can empower local communities to participate in policy-making, governance and access to information on key social issues. This global initiative is called U-Report and as of October 2015 it has nearly two million active users in over 19 countries globally.

In Pakistan, UNICEF is working with its partners including Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, Mobilink, Telenor, Ufone, Warid, Zong and the School of Leadership which is implementing the programme at the field level to create a network of U-Reporters in Pakistan.

The platform relies on volunteer community members, mostly young people – primarily between the ages of 10-29 years serving as U-Reporters. Members join the programme by sending a free SMS “join” to a short-code 8623 or U-Report twitter handle @PakAvaz. Various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), youth-led networks, educational institutions, media and young people are also supporting the programme.

Weekly SMS messages and polls are sent out to the community of U-reporters, who respond to the polls and exchange views on a wide range of subjects.

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PTCL offers Free EVO Wingle with unlimited downloads

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), has launched the 'PTCL Muft EVO Offer'. This permits any new client the opportunity to get an EVO Wingle totally free. 

Notwithstanding getting a free EVO Wingle gadget, clients benefiting this offer will get boundless web for one entire month by just loading balance of Rs. 1,500. 

Changing so as to exist Customers can likewise appreciate Unlimited Internet their bundle to EVO 1500 and stacking Rs. 1,500 (inclusive of tax). From the second month forward, the EVO 1500 bundle will have 

a 35GB month to month download. 

The PTCL Muft EVO Offer will be substantial from February 1 to 29 and the gadget will be accessible at all PTCL Smart Shops, Franchises and Retailers. For online clients, the PTCL EVO Wingle will be accessible at daraz.pk, Yayvo.com and tcs.hazi, said public statement issued here on Monday. 

Remarking on the offer, Aasif Inam, PTCL EVP Product and Pricing, said: "This is a decent open door for individuals to appreciate PTCL EVO administrations at fast with web network on the go. PTCL EVO stage brings driving edge broadband innovation inside of access of the regular man – furthermore free web utilization through this offer.

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Magic Mirror: Google engineer transforms bathroom glass into high-tech device

An architect at tech mammoth Google has made a cutting edge savvy mirror for his lavatory, utilizing basic and effortlessly accessible supplies.

Keenly utilizing a two-way reflect, a presentation board and a controller board among a couple of other auxiliary segments and expressions and specialties supplies, Max Braun transformed his washroom mirror into a cutting edge gadget.

The generally simple adornment has now turned into a notice focal point of sorts, showing the time, date, climate estimate, and most recent news features.

In spite of the fact that it doesn't have a touchscreen or voice charge abilities – it just upgrades itself frequently – the keen reflect a wonderful thing that will leave your visitors in stunningness.

Braun has given connections to every one of the supplies he utilized, furthermore a brief portrayal of the manufacture process, yet more or less the showcase behind the two-way reflect is associated with an Amazon Fire TV Stick, utilizing a smaller than normal controller board, the Oddity Central reported.

The Fire TV Stick runs the product, while the board is additionally associated with a force catch and green LED.

Braun says that the additional elements don't make the reflect less pragmatic, and that the content won't influence its most essential capacity – to let you take a gander at yourself.

"Unless the climate is overcast, there will be minimal shading in the UI, yet generally the content and symbols are monochrome to keep them from being excessively diverting," he said.

The Google architect is as yet attempting to enhance the format and client interface, exploring different avenues regarding gadgets like movement redesigns, every day updates, and voice seek.

"This model is still a work in advancement and I haven't invested much energy in the product yet," he composed on Medium, an online group where clients offer thoughts.

"The UI above is just a couple of hundred lines of code and I'm exploring different avenues regarding diverse gadgets to run it – at first Chromecast, then Nexus Player, and most as of late Fire TV Stick."

"Possibly I'll post a more definite making-of with the photos I took amid the assemble," he included. I'm certain a considerable measure of geek DIY lovers would love that. What's more, who knows, perhaps they'll have a few enhancements to propose.

We're certain all of you need this savvy mirror in your bathrooms. How about we all trust it turning into a genuine item at whatever time.

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7 Best Free Online Punctuation Checker Tools You Can Use To Fix Your Punctuation Errors

The most difficult part of writing a blog post, a sales copy or an essay is proofreading and correcting the mistakes in it. This goes worse for people that have English as the second language.

Nevertheless, there are dozens of punctuation checker tools that can be used to correct the tiniest mistake in our copy.

Ever thought why the blogs of professional bloggers are so picture perfect without any grammar or punctuation error. It’s not that they don’t write wrong, the fact is they undergo an extra step in the process of content creation.

They check their errors with effective punctuation checker tools. To make things easier, I am sharing a list of some of the best online punctuation checker tools in this post.

1. Grammarly

Grammarly is my go-to tool for any grammar and punctuation issues. This tool is trusted by more than 4 million people (writers, bloggers, teachers, script writers etc) to proofread their articles.

Grammarly has an eye for more than 250 errors that simple text editors like MS word can’t find. This is why people serious with their work use a premium punctuation tool.

You can use Grammarly to correct your punctuations on any platform you write, may it be social media platforms, email body or your blog editor.

It also has an add-in that combines with MS word to give your punctuations and grammar a cleaner look.

2. Whitesmoke

If there is a serious competitor to Grammarly, I guess it is whitesmoke. This is a must-have tool for everyone who has a bad command over punctuation.

Whitesmoke not only provides punctuation checking for fast writers, it also marks the error out, gives possible solutions and offers tips in order to avoid you from committing the same mistake again!

Whitesmoke has an artificial intelligence algorithm that checks out your sentences and compare them to their database of millions of sentences, match them, finds the errors and points out to you on the go.

3. Ginger Punctuation Checker

Ginger is also a very popular tool that most bloggers and writers use to correct their punctuation errors. Ginger’s punctuation lets you correct all your punctuation errors based on your context.

If you are worried about comma splices or misplaced semicolons, trust your writing project to ginger.

This tool is free and worth a try. Just go to the official site, download the software and start writing error free copy.

4. Paper Rater

Use this tool if you are searching for a free proofreading tool, I suggest you try paper rater once. This ad-supported but free version has multiple options and checks your grammar and punctuation to the fullest.

It has options to scan your content based on your education level and the type of post you have submitted (like research paper, blog post, essay etc).

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5. After the Deadline

After the deadline or polish my writing is a very nifty tool for every blogger and publisher.

This not only checks for grammar but also checks for spelling and common punctuation errors in your copy. This is available as both online and offline punctuation checker versions.

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6. Languagetool.Org

Language tool is an open source tool for checking punctuation online. This tool checks for language issues of at least 20 languages.

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7. Garreston Punctuation Checker

This online punctuation correction tool by Garreston is free for essays upto10000 words. You can check for detailed punctuation error or omission in your article with this tool.

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Over to you:

So these were the best and most effective punctuation checker tools. You can use them to get great content with error-free writing.

If you ask me I would suggest Grammarly, because I personally use it and I know how beneficial it has been to me as far as grammar and punctuation is considered.

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How To Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools?

To be effective in your blogging profession you should need to produce OK natural movement to your site. By the term “organic traffic” I mean the traffic which comes to your blog through search engines like Google.

In the event that you are another blogger then you ought to know with the Google Webmaster Tools. This is a great tool which is provided by Google itself. It is useful for bloggers and webmasters to get their blog or website index by the Google and it also help to improve our blog’s crawling rate.

You just need to verify your blog ownership in Google Webmaster Tools and then submit a simple sitemap. It is very important to submit blogger sitemap to Google in terms of SEO which tells Google about your blog and its content.

Whenever you update your blog with new posts, your sitemap helps to index them easily in search engines. This is what we are going to discuss in this post. Let see how to add blogger sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.

Submit Blogger Sitemap To Google Webmaster Tools

Below are some easy steps you have to go through in terms to submit your blogspot blog sitemap.

• Sign in to Google Webmaster Tools.
• Click on the blog title for which you want to add sitemap.
• Click on Sitemaps button as shown below.

• At the top right corner of the page, press Add/Test sitemap button.

• Once you click the button, a small box will appear as shown in the screenshot below.

• Add the below code in the text field.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

This is the sitemap code for your blogger blog which you need to add.

• Press “Submit Sitemap” button.
• Refresh the page.

Congratulation! You have finished the process of submitting your blog sitemap.

Note: The above sitemap will work for 500 posts only. If you have more than 500 posts published in your blog, then you have to add one more sitemap. The Whole procedure will be same but at this time you have to add this code.

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=500

The sitemap which we submit to Google Webmaster Tools is a XML sitemap which is used by search engines to find our content easily. There is HTML sitemap too which is for our blog readers. We should add sitemap page to our blog so that our readers can easily view all of our blog posts at the single location. It’ll be easy for them to read the post which they want to.

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Incredible Innovation: This Detachable Cabin can save lives during plane crashes

Engineers in Ukraine have uncovered a progressive approach to spare plane travelers in a crisis case.

The outline demonstrates an air ship with a separable lodge that discharges in crisis circumstances.

Amid take-off, landing or flight, the upgraded lodge separates from the plane and securely arrives on the ground or water – sparing everybody's lives on load up.

"Getting by in a plane accident is conceivable," said Vladimir Tatarenko, avionics engineer.

"While air ship designs everywhere throughout the world are attempting to make planes more secure, they can do nothing about the human component," he told LiveLeak.

Tatarenko is the driving force behind the outline and has been chipping away at this task for as far back as three years, as indicated by Independent.

Parachutes are joined to the top of the lodge that are in a flash discharged when the lodge is confined from the plane.

There are additionally elastic tubes that expand to pad the effect to the ground or water, and the inflatable gadgets appear to be sufficiently solid to keep the lodge above water.

"The current innovation of utilizing of Kevlar and carbon composites for fuselage, wings, folds, spoilers, ailerons, tail will be utilized amid the configuration," Tatarenko clarified.

"It permits to mostly repay the heaviness of parachute framework."

The configuration incorporates a storage room that holds travelers' baggage underneath the lodge, so there won't be any lost gear amid the flight on the off chance that it needs to disconnect.

Regardless of a blended response from everywhere throughout the world, a survey led by the creator has found that 95% of individuals would will to purchase a more costly ticket keeping in mind the end goal to utilize such a security framework.

This isn't the primary plan the Ukrainian engineer has created. A year ago, Tatarenko got licenses for a creation with a break container framework that would safeguard travelers on board.

The case would be discharged inside of seconds of the crisis circumstance and through a back lid at the last part of the plane.

Once launched out, two explosive motors will bring control to back off the velocity and afterward a parachute will pop out.

However, as indicated by Tatarenko, it couldn't spare lives if the plane blasts inside or goes under a rocket attack.

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Now you can do more than just ‘Like’ a Facebook post (~)

Inside of weeks, Facebook clients will have the capacity to react to any post with ‘sad’, ‘wow’, ‘angry’, ‘love’ or ‘haha’ emotions.

By, Facebook's boss item officer Chris Cox has affirmed that responses are going worldwide.

He has additionally clarified how the organization picked five all the more universally perceived feelings to sit close by the celebrated such as catch.

By representative a study conveyed in testing, which spread over six nations, "yay" did not make the finished edition as "it was not all around caught on".

And also counseling with sociologists, the group broke down the most well-known responses over its system all together the refine the last choice.

To utilize one of the new responses, you will need to hold your thumb on the "Like" catch to look through and select the one that wholes up your mind-set.

Instead of including one symbol for every individual that responds, Facebook will count up the skipping feelings, to diminish mess.

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