Silicon Gali
Posted on February 6th, 2008 in Innovate.pk |
Things have been quite active here in Karachi. With the amount of innovation and amazing stuff happening here I think we should now start calling Karachi’s (and/or Lahore+ISB’s) IT hubs as Silicon Gali ( ‘Gali’ means narrow street in Urdu, also can be spelt as “gulee” ). So you have Karachi’s Silicon Gali, Lahore’s Silicon Gali, ISB’s, etc
I think it would surely do justice to the term. After the one IT mecca, Silicon Valley, New York has a “Silicon Alley”, Austin has “Silicon Hills”. I think its time we gave our own hubs a cool name to identify them by. We want your suggestions and comments, and the new poll that is up has some suggestions for a branding term for the it hubs here, so please vote your for your favourite. I , though, am sticking to Silicon Gali 
Popularity: 2% [?]
6 Responses
Stupid Name. There is no need to come up with silly names like these.
What would you rather do?
Siliconistan
Well, I do not like to copy the name of Silicon Valley. America has Hollywood, India has Bollywood, and Pakistan pops up behind with Lollywood, not really authentical, I think. Surely we should be able to come up alternatives? Like SoftGarden? IT-Baagh? What say others?
we already have 1 - it’s called raygistan (desert)
heheh good one farzal. yeah, some sort of name, any name…something to mark as a umbrella brand name maybe