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Association of Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows (ACSF)

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ACSF Round Table Discussion on 19^th January 2016

On the day of the inauguration of ACSF, an interactive round table discussion in the “world café” format was organized among the attending alumnus. Five round tables were set up with a host and a set of five different questions with the common thread of how we can contribute towards a visible, successful and sustainable alumni association and make a difference were distributed for brainstorming amongst the participants. The ideas which emerged are summarized below table wise.

                

Table No.1:  Theme: vision for ACSF five years down the line

1a)  Imagine you are in a meeting to review the achievements five years later. What do you expect to hear?

1b)  Why do you think ACSF would be able to have these achievements?

Summary points which emerged from the discussion:

1.      Knowledge sharing

2.      Visibility of ACSF in various channels, sectors

3.      Application of knowledge/training  gained towards development of India

4.      ACSF in advisory role in selection process, policy making

5.      Recognition of alumni achievements

Table No.2: Theme: Activities that ACSF can initiate

2a) What kind of activities should ACSF engage in?

2b)  Why do you think so?

Summary points which emerged from the discussion:

1.      ACSF as an expert group for education and other broad based government policys

2.      Theme based subgroups

3.      Publications and holding seminars and conferences

4.      Local chapters

5.      Community development

Short term goal: Increase membership, publish newsletter

Long term goal: Local chapters, journals

Table No.3 Theme: Motivating and mobilizing members to ACSF

3a)  How can more Fellows/scholars be Motivated to join ACSF?

3b)  Are there Scholars/ fellows you Know who you think must join ACSF?

3c)   Can you help them join ACSF?  How?

Summary points which emerged from the discussion:

1.      Word of mouth publicity

2.      Letters to various organizations/institutions/agencies seeking information of commonwealth alumni

3.      Media coverage-alumni day

4.      Regular interdisciplinary meetings

Table No.4 Theme: Individual engagement and contribution of members

4a)  How would you like to be engaged in and contributing to ACSF?

4b)   What skills would you like to bring into The ACSF space?

Summary points which emerged from the discussion:

1.      Donate time

2.      Popularizing the association

3.      Reverse fellowship

4.      Public lectures

5.      Fund generation

6.      Towards skill contributions: E-platforms for alumni interaction, editing and writing for websites, newsletter, delivering public lectures

Table No.5 Themes: Taskforces and planning for the future

5a)  Going forward, ACSF has plans of creating specific task forces. What task Forces should be created? Why?

5b)    Which of these task forces would you like to join? Why?

Summary points which emerged from the discussion:

1.      Technology development including popularizing indigenous knowledge

2.      Sustainable community development

3.      Health and wellbeing

4.      Women empowerment

5.      Human rights

6.      Climate change

 

 

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S.NO.	NAME	OCCUPATION	DESIGNATION IN THE SOCIETY
1.	Dr. Dhruva Chaudhary	Medical Teacher & Professional	President
2.	Dr. Anuradha Mishra	Professor of Chemistry	Vice-President
3.	Dr. Mukesh Kalra	Medical Teacher and Professional	Vice-President
4.	Mr. Manu Mahajan	Urban Design Teacher and Professional	Secretary
5.	Mr. Ashis Kumar Dash	Business	Joint Secretary
6.	Dr. Nayan Ahmed	Principal Scientist	Treasurer
7.	Dr. Pakhee Aggarwal	Doctor	Executive Member
8.	Dr. Sanjay Kataria	Librarian	Executive Member
9.	Dr. Adarsh Kumar	Medical Teacher and Professional	Executive Member
10.	Dr. Vishnu Srivastava	Chief Scientist	Executive Member
11.	Dr. Tamil Selvan Muthusamy	Teacher	Executive Member
12.	Mrs. Durba Datta Ghosh	Development Professional and Social Worker	Executive Member
13.	Dr. Sharmistha Barthakur	Associate Professor/Senior Scientist	Executive Member
14.	Mrs. Kiran Saluja	Research Associate	Executive Member
15.	Dr. Sayed Khurram Nisar	Assistant Professor-Physical Education	Executive Member
16.	Dr. Ajay Mahajan	Doctor	Executive Member
17.	Mr. Anand Gautam	Researcher	Executive Member
18.	Mr. Dilip Kumar Jena	Consultant	Executive Member

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To build a strong national level platform of Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows in India.

To positively impact issues of education, livelihoods, environment, health and culture through collaborative interventions on-ground and online with multi-stakeholder involvement.

To strengthening relations between India and UK and all other commonwealth countries towards academic interaction, and social, spiritual, scientific and technological collaboration and development.

To provide think-tank, strategic and capacity building support towards strengthening policies and on-ground development initiatives.