| | | | 1. Successful Conduct of CSI Elections: At the outset, the nominationcommittee deserves all our members and ExecCom appreciation for conducting CSI national elections successfully. Our heartiest congratulations are to all winners and best wishes to them for carrying the roles and responsibilities ahead of them. For those who could not make this time, there are enough opportunities for all in pluralistic professional societies like ours.
2. New Editorial Team for Journal of CSI: The President has nominated new editorial team for the Journal of CSI with Prof. M. Chandwani, Prof. H R Vishwakarma and Dr. Achuth Sankar Nair as the Editor-in-Chief, Hon. Editor and Associate Editor respectively. The team has been given a target-oriented set of deliverables including clearing the back-log of journal and bringing out new issues. Any contributions and suggestions for the journal may please be sent to csi.journal@csi-india.org
3. CSI Certifi ed Information Systems Courses: As an initial step toward realizing the ultimate goal of CSI Virtual University has been taken by constituting the CSI National Curriculum Committee with Prof. V. Rajaraman, Fellow CSI and Professor Emeritus, IISc as Chairman and Prof. H.R. Vishwakarma as Member-Secretary. The committee comprising of more than 10 members including senior professors and domain experts from industry will meet for a brainstorming session at Bangalore in early March 2011. The members are requested to send their views and suggestions on the above to the Hon. Secretary and Director (Edu) who have been nominated by the President to coordinate the above initiative.
4. Summer Faculty Development Programmes: There is a proposal to host Govt funded Summer Faculty Development programs by CSI Education at four locations (one FDP each in Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Regions at premier institutes). The members from academia are requested to come forward to actively involve in planning, execution and participation – in this new initiative of our CSI Education Directorate with support from a few of ExecCom colleagues. The suggestions and views can be sent to the Director (Edu.).
5. Appreciation of Who’s who Book and Proposal for Members Directory: There have been wide-spread appreciations by the members across India for bringing out the CSI who’s who book after a long gap. Several of senior and fellow members have also suggested reviving the practice of publishing The CSI Members Directory which was discontinued some years ago. As such, it is proposed to publish the CSI Members Directory containing all the members’ contact details. The members across are requested to update their contact details at the earliest by logging in the CSI KM portal. They may write by e-mail to member-services@csi-india,org in case of any diffi culty in updating their contact details.
6. Complimentary 1-year CSI Membership for Sponsors and Participants of Events: There are several suggestions for vigorously putting into practice the previous guidelines about complimentary 1-year CSI institutional membership and individual membership for CSI event sponsors and participants respectively. The senior members and event organizers who have prior experience or new ideas about the above practices may please write to the Hon. Secretary with cc member-services@csi-india,org. All the suggestions will be compiled
and put before the ExecCom for decision making and formulating the guidelines in this regards.
7. CSI SIGs and IFIP TC Calendar for 2011-12: All the SIG Chairpersons and IFIP TC Representatives functioning at different locations across India are requested to ensure that the CSI SIG and IFIP Events are announced through CSI Communication in addition to their other regular media. This is essential so as to encourage a wider participation by the CSI members, optimize resources utilization and avoiding any overlap of themes and dates with the CSI events and programmes. The SIG and IFIP event reports may also be appropriately published in the CSI Communications. The potential event organizers
of SIG and IFIP may write on the above to csic@csi-india.org.
8. CSI Research Mentors Network: The formation of this research mentors network has been approved with an objective to helping out the ICT researchers across India. The need of such a network was felt in view of acute shortage of PhD qualifi ed faculty members in ICT domain. There are about 800 Ph.D. qualifi ed CSI members with rich experience who can be potential mentors to our young researchers. The expertise of all our SIGs and IFIP TC Representatives will also available through this network. Any suggestions and queries on this initiative can be sent by email to csi.research@csi-india.org. The CSI members with PhD qualifi cation may send their latest profi les to above address to join the network.
9. State IT Conventions and Summits: It is noteworthy that every Indian state and territory occupies a unique position in terms of its vision and mission, roadmap, growth potential, infrastructural and human resources, grass-root level ICT needs, frameworks and policies for governance of public and private sector. In view of the above, there have been several suggestions and proposals for hosting State IT Conventions, HR Summits, Developers Summits and Entrepreneurs Summits. A few of these events have already announced and planned
by the respective states. The leading chapters in each state may pleasecome forward to send their proposals (vp@csi-india.org with cc to conference-services@csi-india,org for hosting such events in 2011-12.
10. Consultancy and Career Counselling: Several of our senior members have shown their keen interest to offer consultancy and career counselling services to organizations and individual members respectively. These services are already being provided by several leading professional societies. In view of the above, there is need to formulate policies and guidelines in CSI with ExecCom approval. In this context, the members with experience in such domains are requested to send their views and suggestions to the Hon. Secretary with cc hq@csi-india.org
11. Summer ICT Research Symposia: There have been suggestions from our young researchers and postgraduate scholars to host ICT research symposia towards nurturing research in different emerging technological fi elds and innovative applications. A few of CSI senior members and institutional members have come forward to host these symposia in the coming summer. These symposia will deal with the ICT research methodologies, work-in-progress presentations, technical paper writing/reviewing, thesis writing, future directions in ICT research and development. The potential participants will be the research guides and scholars apart from eminent professors and researchers. These symposia will held in association with CSI partner societies and organizations at different locations. The members desirous of to participate as resource persons or potential researchers may submit their profi les to csi.research@csi-india.org. The shortlisted candidates will be intimated giving further details on these symposia.
12. Criteria and Early Preparation for Awards and Recognition: The Chapters, Student Branches and members at large are requested to gear up themselves wrt to annual awards and recognitions given by the CSI to the best contributors and achievers in different categories. It is noteworthy that all the potential institutional and individual nominees (except in the category of Honorary Fellows) are required to be active CSI members of good standing prior to their nomination. As such, the all concerned are requested to ensure the potential nominees are CSI members in good standing (say for 3 years or so including the year of awards and preceding/succeeding years) and their contributions/achievements are tangible and visible for the CSI
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Prof. H R Vishwakarma
Hon. Secretary, Computer Society of India
E-mail: secretary@csi-india.org
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