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The Pakistan Innovation Foundation has officially announced their 2016 Karachi Innovation Challenge and Hackathon to be held from 23rd September till 25th September this year. The innovation challenge will be held at Habib University Karachi with four categories of Citizen Innovation. This means that citizens of Karachi are being called out to bring the ideas with which they can recreate the damaged machinery of the city's infrastructure or simply form loopholes to enhance the standard of living within the Karachi city.

The four categories include:-

1- Do It Yourself Citizenship- In elaboration it means that ideas that citizens can do themselves and through which Karachi can be in benefit. This can include wall painting, garbage disposals or even safety modules.

2- Creative humane Spaces:- This can include ideas to promote cultural heritage, art and aesthetics of he city. It can be in forms of societies, cafes, joints or so on..

3- Smart City:- The smart city is a more technology related category which can include applications, modules or services using smart devices to enhance the user interface of the citizen's of Karachi.

4- Trusted City Government- The city government and local bodies are usually missing in action. This category  includes any possible way of rebuilding the government-citizen relationship. it can be through technology, complain centers or most probably anywhere the mind takes one..

The winners of each category will receive a seeding capital of three hundred thousand each & they shall enter the Civic Accelerator to materialize their startup idea. The Karachi city is filled with brilliant minds and there are probably astonishing ideas waiting for this opportunity. The registrations are open from 17th August till 25th off August. The registrations are free of cost and easily done online.

The social media campaigning is done with the hashtag #KHIinnovates and it was a hot trend in Pakistan throughout the orientation trending number 2 on twitter across the country. This proves how eager are the karachities to be in the KIC 2016 challenge. Last year over 400 teams participated, the question is did they give up or will they try again?

Practice often makes a man perfect and after a whole year we believe the inspiration must have doubled to be innovative, after all inclusion inspires innovation..

{August 17^th , 2016} --

The Karachi Innovation Challenge & Hacakthon is an event of Pakistan Innovation Foundation held every year in Karachi to promote the new citizenship idea and startups which can create a better more smarter and productive Karachi. This helps young citizens of Karachi to develop new innovative ideas. The tagline “Ijaad Kar, Nakaal na Kar..”  states clearly that new, inspiring ideas will be taken in notice.

The four categories are:-

Register at: http://www.pif.org.pk/karachi 

before August 25, 2016..

The launch event was held at T2F on 17^th August 2016. The event included big names social workers like Afia Salam, Saad Amanullah Khan, Amar Khan Gharani & Saima Ziadi. Athar Osama & the team of PIF organization did a fantastic job in explaining why and how the event affects Karachi. #KHIinnovates is the official Hashtag of KIC 2016.

The sponsors include I Am Karachi, Open Karachi, The Nest i/o, P@SHA & more… The new enhancement is that the teams this year will be Geo tagged & using WhisperO as a proper channel the teams will go out to their authentic consumers which will show how productive the idea is.. The challenge will refine the youth minds and bring in them the sense of responsibilities that need to be taken to repair the damaged machinery of Karachi city.