Winner of the 2008 Anita Borg Institute Change Agent Award – sponsored by Google

Zahara Khan is CEO of Sehat First, a social enterprise targeted at delivering affordable, quality basic health care & pharmaceutical services across Pakistan through self-sustainable franchised tele-health centers. Company Web Site URL: http://www.sehatfirst.com

Zahara Khan was the Co-founder and President of d.o.t.z Technologies. Her primary area of expertise is social development using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

Zahara did her Masters in Computer Science (cum laude) from FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), the leading computer science education institution in Pakistan. A true believe in individual social responsibility & sustainable business models for development, Zahara left her lucrative job in the corporate sector and co-founded d.o.t.z technologies to develop various software applications, such as e-stores, used to market the “one village, one product” products internationally, and e-Sehat which provides basic health services to rural communities.

Zahara has led many multi-stakeholder public-private partnership (PPP) projects such as the National Education Database Program (NEDP) for informed policy-making, the Family Resource Center project, and the Pakistan Education Initiative which envisions connecting the 175,000 schools in the Pakistan Public School System.

Zahara has envisioned and implemented many programs aimed at inclusion of women in the ICT sector. She is the founding member of the community-based Institute of Computer Studies (Karachi), Graduates of FAST (a scholarship program by FAST-NUCES alumni) and a Mentorship Program for young social entrepreneurs & computer science students.