User:Anil Prasad

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My question to me
What would have been the destiny of human beings if the people discovered/identified/popularized the use of Fire and Wheel had taken Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for that?

Anil Prasad

Occupation:

Nodal Officer (Website), Finance Department, Govt. of Kerala, India.

Other roles:

Member, All India Management Association (AIMA)

Nationality:

Indian

Country:

India

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About

My name is Anil Prasad. I'm from Kerala, India.

I strongly believe that Online Open Distance Learning is the real promise for the future of Higher Education. I also understand the need for networking Educators all over the world for the success of this great Teaching and Learning Freedom Movement.

I find time to this voluntary social service, by the creative use of my holidays and out of office hours.

For sustained inspiration I keep on asking me the question "What would have been the destiny of human beings if the people discovered/identified/popularized the use of Fire and Wheel had taken IPR for that?" <smile>

I am also a Wikipedian since July 2007.

Education:

Master's Degree in Human Resource Management (MHRM)

My Association with Wiki Educator

My landing on WE was accidental while searching a good governance related topic on Wikipedia in September 2007. Then the search page listed a link to www.wikieducator.org. The name of the URL (wikieducator) itself attracted me and I followed the link to land on this fascinating world of online ODL. From WE I also learned about Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and visited COL website. Seeing the great ideologies, principles and strategies that lead COL and WE (that are the need of time and people), I decided to associate with WE by creating a log in for me.

After some experimentation on my user page with the help of WE online tutorial, I understood that one of the important initial milestones for WE project is to start country nodes on WE for each participating county. So I set up a page for India on WE on 26/09/2007, the very next day on which I had created my user page (that was on 25/09/2007).

Subsequently, I have participated in the M&E Workshop conducted by the CEMCA (Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia) in New Delhi from 30/11/2007 to 02/12/2007.

Assisted the Indian WE Community and CEMCA in scheduling and conducting the inauguration function of the India Chapter of WikiEducator in New Delhi on 15/11/2008.

From 15/11/2008 onwards I am also a member of the Interim Advisory Board for WikiEducator India Chapter.

This user is a Member of
Interim Advisory Board of
WikiEducator India

The opportunities that I got to serve WE in conducting L4C Workshops

workshop on collaborative content development for the University Partners of L3 Farmers Project, Sri Lanka from 31/03/2008 to 03/04/2008 in association with Sri Lanka Association of Distance Educators.

In India at Madurai, from 16/05/2008 to 18/05/2008.

Half Day WikiEducator workshop conducted at the Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum for Distance Learning (PCF5) at University of London, U.K (hosted by Commonwealth of Learning and Co-hosted by University of London)(PCF5 was held from 13/07/2008 to 18/07/2008).

L4C Workshop conducted at Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of New Delhi, India on 3,4 and 6 October, 2008.

Online support for the F2F L4C34 Workshop called WikiEducator-Gargi 2009 conducted by Dr. Gita Mathur at Gargi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, on 12,13 and 15 January, 2009.

L4C 60 and Collaborative OER Development Workshop conducted in Khulna, Bangladesh from 25/05/2009 to 30/05/2009 in association with RUPANTAR

WE Pages where I spend more time

Other major events attended

Workshop on Effective Quality Undertaking and Improvement Process (EQUIP)held at National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN), INTAN Main Campus, Jalan Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 23/05/2005 to 28/05/2005.
National Level E-Governance Standards Workshop” conducted by National Informatics Centre (in connection with National eGovernance Plan of Government of India) at MASCOT Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from 15th and 16th May 2006 - Presented a white paper on Documentation Standards in eGovernance.
Participated in the eConfernce on Agricultural Learning Repositories – 2008 (AgLR 2008)conducted by Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force AgLR-TF from April 24 to June 15, 2008 and assisted to prepare a summary report of the Phase-6 of the conference on "Promotion and Use of Agricultural Learning Repositories"-moderated by Dr. Krishna Alluri and Dr. Wayne Mackintosh. Summary Report of the entire conference is available from here...
Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum for Distance Learning (PCF5) held at University of London, U.K from 13/07/2008 to 18/07/2008 (hosted by Commonwealth of Learning and Co-hosted by University of London).
Think tank meeting on Knowledge Info-mediaries in livelihood education conducted by COL at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India on 22 and 23 September 2008.
Second International Conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture with the theme Free Software, Free Society held at Mascot Hotel Convention Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India from 09/12/2008 to 11/12/2008.

I also contribute to

Solution Exchange - A UN Initiative for Development Practitioners in India.
dgCommunities of Development Gateway Foundation for Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Worldwide.

Free Software user

I use gNewSense version of GNU Operating system, which is free as free in freedom!

Hobbies

Trekking
fiction writing - if you would like to read a few, welcome to http://groups.google.com/group/tales4all/web

Me as a Free & Open Thought Engine :)

My document contributions available online

All are free; free as in freedom

Governance & e-Governance

Comments offered when dgCommunities' members have been extended a special invitation by the Russian government (Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russia, or MEDT) via the TACIS PSIR Project to offer comments on the concept paper CONCEPT OF E-GOVERNMENT FORMATION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR THE PERIOD UNTIL 2010.
e Governance - A quick starter guide available on dgCommunities.
DOCUMENTATION IN eGOVERNANCE - A quick guide to government officials available on dgCommunities.
Administrative Reforms in Governments: Bureaucracy and TQM available on dgCommunities.

Education

Need of Transnational Qualifications Framework available on dgCommunities.

Open Distance Learning

ONLINE OPEN DISTANCE LEARNING – Promise for the future available on GKP Virtual Community

Fiction

A Strange Farewell - Flash Fiction available on tales4all group on Google Groups.
Obsessed in writing - Flash Fiction
Separated by Time - Flash Fiction
The Heaven Guards - A flash
They longed to hear the loud bang again - Flash fiction
The Quake

Poems

My Blog

http://www.apletters.gather.com (since 2006)

Picture Gallery

L4C Workshops

L4C workshop for AOER in Colombo, Srilanka	L4C workshop for AOER in Madurai, Tamil Nadu	WikiEd08 - L4C workshop, Acharya Narendra Dev College, New Delhi	WikiEd08 Niyam Bhushan, Gita Mathur, Andrew Lynn, Savithri Singh & Anil Prasad
	L4C, Content & Community Dev Workshop, Khulna, Bangladesh	Khulna, Bangladesh	Khulna, Bangladesh

Other ODL involvements

M&E Workshop organized by COL in New Delhi in 2007	PCF5 held at University of London, UK	PCF5 held at University of London, UK	PCF5 held at University of London, UK
Think Tank Meeting on Knowledge Info-Mediaries at ICRISAT, Hyderabad	At WikiEducator India Chapter Launch, IIC, New Delhi.