Dimapur, July 9 (MExN): Four eminent personalities from Nagaland, Prof. Temsula Ao (Retd), Dr. Dr. Supong Keitzer (retired Director of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland), Monalisa Changkija, Editor, Nagaland Page and Hekali Zhimomi (IAS), Director of Census, Government of Nagaland were invited to participate in the EDNERU’s Round Table of the World Education Summit on July 13, at New Delhi, which would dwell on the emerging challenges of educational development in the Northeast region. However it is learnt that Prof Temsula Ao would not attend the programme due to indifferent health. Gandhian Natwar Thakker would also attend the programme.
The Northeast region occupies a ‘special category’ status in the development priorities of India and in accordance with the country’s priorities, 10% of the plan grant of IGNOU is allocated to promote education, training and research leading to overall Education Development of Northeast Region, through a special unit, EDNERU, which was sanctioned in 2000.
In order to accelerate and strengthen its educational development efforts, EDNERU (IGNOU) has planned this Round Table, at the summit with the aim to look at the emerging educational scenario and its challenges in the Northeast and also to explore possible solutions.
WES 2011, organized by IGNOU, elets technomedia and CSDMS would spread over 2 days and run parallel sessions in 3 tracks --- School Education, Higher Education, and Skill Development and Vocational Education. The Summit is geared towards promoting an enabling environment to promote quality education.
Meanwhile, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts has also extended invitation to Monalisa Changkija to attend the 4th Kala Nidhi Lecture Series and Outreach Programme would be held on July 13, at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, on the topic, “Fighting the Digital Dark Age: India’s Digital Preservation Initiative.”
The topic assumes significance because with the ever-increasing proliferation of Information Technology, the volume of born digital content produced in the social, enterprise, government and personal spaces are exponentially growing to enormous proportions. This digital content, though ephemeral and non-tangible in its existence, forms a significant part of human heritage for future generations. This unprotected digital heritage may not see the living daylight by 2020 as projected by International Data Corporate (IDC), technology experts and researchers, as it is constantly threatened by digital obsolescence and frequent technological changes.
In this alarming context, Department of Information Technology has taken a bold initiated to setup the Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation at C-DAC Pune <http://www.ndpp.in/> to work along with many stakeholder organizations. This presentation gives a brief overview of the digital preservation challenges, international scenario, the Indian digital preservation initiative and the emerging opportunities.
Dr Dinesh S Katre, Associate Director, C-DAC, Pune would be the main speaker. Dr. Dinesh Katre is presently working as Associate Director & HoD of Human-Centred Design and Computing Group at C-DAC Pune, India. He is also the Chief Investigator of Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation project sponsored by Department of Information Technology. He has rich experience of R&D in diverse areas such as Digital Archival Systems, Virtual Museums, e-Learning, Interactive Game Design and Multimedia Authoring. He has published over 40 research papers and 2 books related to Human-Computer Interaction. He is a member of Editorial Board for i-manager’s Journal of Educational Technology and AIAI Journal of Intelligent Human–Computer & Web Interaction. Recently, he has been elected as the Vice-chair for Working Group on Human Work Interaction Design of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He has a Ph. D in Human-Computer Interaction from Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani and Master of Design from Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
The Northeast region occupies a ‘special category’ status in the development priorities of India and in accordance with the country’s priorities, 10% of the plan grant of IGNOU is allocated to promote education, training and research leading to overall Education Development of Northeast Region, through a special unit, EDNERU, which was sanctioned in 2000.
In order to accelerate and strengthen its educational development efforts, EDNERU (IGNOU) has planned this Round Table, at the summit with the aim to look at the emerging educational scenario and its challenges in the Northeast and also to explore possible solutions.
WES 2011, organized by IGNOU, elets technomedia and CSDMS would spread over 2 days and run parallel sessions in 3 tracks --- School Education, Higher Education, and Skill Development and Vocational Education. The Summit is geared towards promoting an enabling environment to promote quality education.
Meanwhile, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts has also extended invitation to Monalisa Changkija to attend the 4th Kala Nidhi Lecture Series and Outreach Programme would be held on July 13, at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, on the topic, “Fighting the Digital Dark Age: India’s Digital Preservation Initiative.”
The topic assumes significance because with the ever-increasing proliferation of Information Technology, the volume of born digital content produced in the social, enterprise, government and personal spaces are exponentially growing to enormous proportions. This digital content, though ephemeral and non-tangible in its existence, forms a significant part of human heritage for future generations. This unprotected digital heritage may not see the living daylight by 2020 as projected by International Data Corporate (IDC), technology experts and researchers, as it is constantly threatened by digital obsolescence and frequent technological changes.
In this alarming context, Department of Information Technology has taken a bold initiated to setup the Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation at C-DAC Pune <http://www.ndpp.in/> to work along with many stakeholder organizations. This presentation gives a brief overview of the digital preservation challenges, international scenario, the Indian digital preservation initiative and the emerging opportunities.
Dr Dinesh S Katre, Associate Director, C-DAC, Pune would be the main speaker. Dr. Dinesh Katre is presently working as Associate Director & HoD of Human-Centred Design and Computing Group at C-DAC Pune, India. He is also the Chief Investigator of Centre of Excellence for Digital Preservation project sponsored by Department of Information Technology. He has rich experience of R&D in diverse areas such as Digital Archival Systems, Virtual Museums, e-Learning, Interactive Game Design and Multimedia Authoring. He has published over 40 research papers and 2 books related to Human-Computer Interaction. He is a member of Editorial Board for i-manager’s Journal of Educational Technology and AIAI Journal of Intelligent Human–Computer & Web Interaction. Recently, he has been elected as the Vice-chair for Working Group on Human Work Interaction Design of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He has a Ph. D in Human-Computer Interaction from Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani and Master of Design from Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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