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ACTIVITIES 2006, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 The Prag Foundation for Capacity Building (popularly known as Prag Foundation ) was established in April 2006 to work towards developing human, scientific, technological, institutional capacities and the skills of the members of the socially and economically disadvantaged communities of Northeast India. The foundation was set up by Alliance for Community Capacity Building in Northeast India, registered charity (No. 1106666), England (www.accb.org.uk) as an autonomous body to work in partnership.
Foundation s areas of activities are: 1. Human Resource Development (equipping individuals with the understanding, skills and access to information, knowledge and training that enable them to perform effectively) 2. Organizational Development 3. Networking between the different organizations and sectors (public, private and community) and 4. Institutional and Legal Framework Development (advocating for legal and regulatory changes necessary to enable organizations, institutions and agencies in all sectors to enhance their capacities)

GNU/LINUX WORKSHOPS, 2006

The workshop was spread over several days totalling 20 hours of intensive work. This current series of workshops is our effort to help build regional ICT capacity using Free and Open Source software (FOSS). The aim of the initiative is to create capacity in terms of trained workforce to support Linux so that low cost ICT facilities (e.g., thin client and load balanced clusters) can be created and supported in the schools, colleges and institutes. This is a pioneering effort, the first and only one of its kind in the region, that uses the great power of free and open source software and open access movement which, we believe, could make a real difference by creating opportunities for many, bridging the digital divide and removing barrier to information and knowledge. Workshop Content: Introduction to GNU/Linux including working with applications (graphics, multimedia, office applications), installation and configuration, command line interface, program installation and update (using yum, rpm), basic system administration, configuring services, aspects of networking, development tools (compiling packages from sources, kernal configuration and compilation), backup, understanding and locating logs, and trouble shooting. 1st GNU/Linux Workshop 3-15 October 2006 List of participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Rituraj Nath, Student, Assam Engineering College Sanjukta Barooah, Student, Assam Engineering College Sanjay Kumar Dutta, College Teacher, Pragjyotish College Anjan Baruah, NGO Service, Eco Systems India Anubhav Mahanta, Student, Gauhati Commerce College Sharbani Dutta, Student, Pragjyotish College Runa Rafique, Professional, Don Bosco Institute, Kharghuli Bidyut Bikash Goswami, JRF, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh

2nd GNU/Linux Workshop 27-29 October2006 List of participants

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Anupama Devi, Lecturer, Arya Bidyapeeth College Bishwajyoti Dev Mahanta, Lecturer, Pragjyotish College Ratul Misra, Lecturer, Pandu College Dipjyoti Barman, Lecturer, Pandu College Jyotirmoy Sengupta, Lecturer, Pragjyotish College Dr Anjan Kumar Bora, Lecturer, Pragjyotish College Manab Deka, Lecturer, Pragjyotish College Biswajit Mahapatra, Business, BSPP System, Rajgarh Road Manas Pratim Baruah, Student, Cotton College

INFORMATION LITERACY AND ICT, 2007-08

Programme for School Teachers (12-19 November 2007):Given the imperative of using our scarce resource in the most efficient way to meet our objective of capacity-building in today s knowledge society, we decided in favour
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ACTIVITIES 2006, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 of a school teacher training programme in computer literacy which would in turn benefit the under privileged students of the state run primary and secondary schools.Sanjay Dutta, one of our volunteers, has developed the programme to initiate the primary teachers into the world of digital literacy. He has conducted the first residential 1 week intensive training workshop starting 12th November 2007 with the participation Shri Imnawati and Smt. Imnasangta from Govt. Middle School and Christian School, respectively situated in a small Nagaland village of Yimjenkimong. Each trainee was given to work on a latest Linux laptop during the week long programme. The workshop was a great success and the two teachers were highly satisfied with what they achieved during the week. The Nagaland school was also donated 2 desktop PC that run on the latest version of a Linux distro with bundles of software suitable for primary school education plus open-source office package.
The second intensive week long workshop was carried out with participation of one teacher from Dimoria School from 18th February, 2008. Dimoria School was donated 2 desk top Linux PC. We already have access to 5 laptops and a projector to conduct workshops and hope to increase the capacity of the programme in terms of quality and increased frequency. We very much believe this programme will contribute significantly to our objectives. Workshop on Information Access , 30th November 2007 Information literacy is just not digital literacy. Our programme on Information Literacy , again aimed at capacitybuilding in today s knowledge society, is targeted at the teachers and students of higher education institutions. The first of this series of workshops was held on 30th November 2007 with participation of 58 teachers and students of higher education institutions from in and around Guwahati city at Academic Staff College of Guwahati University. The workshop was organised in association with the Council for Teacher Education, Assam Chapter. The focus of the workshop was on how to access academic and scholarly information from the world-wide-web. Introduction to Open Access movement which now boasts of 100s of free academic journals offering instant and free access to peer reviewed scholarly articles in various academic disciplines was received with great appreciation by the participants. The workshop also covered the diversity of search engines and how to use different engines effectively for accessing specific scholarly information which again was an eye opener to the participants in regards to the nee d for effective search strategy to derive maximum but relevant information form the web. Finally, the need and methods of critical appraisal of the web content was discussed given the web is unregulated and full of information which are not necessarily of high quality and may even be one sided representation of an issue or even frank propaganda. List of Participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Mousumi Choudhury, Lecturer, Banikanta College Mousumi Bordoloi, Lecturer, Banikanta College Gayotri Changkakoti, Lecturer, Banikanta College Kabita Barman, Lecturer, Banikanta College Lakshmi Lahkar, Lecturer, Rangia College Geeta Rani Kakati, Lecturer, Rangia College R N Bhattacharyya Amarjyoti Bharali, Lecturer, Bahana College Jayati Das, Lecturer, Lecturer, SB Daorah College Purabi Chakraborti, Lecturer, SB Daorah College Subhalakshmi Nath, Senior Lecturer, SB Daorah College Rumamani Deka, Lecturer, SB Daorah College Bandana Baishya, Lecturer, SB Daorah College Manavi Barciala, Lecturer, MC College Abdus S Ahmed Manamee Bordoloi Mandira Bardoloi, College of Education Mridusmita Devi, Pargjyotish College Binod Chetia, DR ABS College of Education Nihar Ranjan Kalita, SBMS College 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. Ajay Das Geeta Rani Das, Subject Teacher, Kamrup Academy Gautam Das, Subject, Jagiraod HS School Samarjyoti Thakuria Banti Barah, Lecturer, Saraighat College Anamika Deka, Lecturer, Saraighat College Deepamani Dutta, Lecturer, Banikanta College of Teacher Education Kanika Medhi, Lecturer, Saraighat College Dr Sabita Baishya Barah, Lecturer, Saraighat College Raghu Jyoti Brahma, Student, Cotton College Dr Rumi Saikia Barah, Asst. Professor, College of Vet Sciences, Khanapara Mrs Manjumala Das, Subject Teacher, Assam Railway HS School Tahmina Begum, College of Education, Panbazar Mridula Das, College of Education, Panbazar Sushmita Choudhury, College of Education, Panbazar Niraj Barua, Gauhati University Dr Nirupama Sarma Sujit Bordhan, Pandu College Ajay Das Rabbani Begum

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21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Dr Madhusmita Devi, B Barooah College Dr (Mrs) Jyoti Rani Borah, B Barooah College Nipan Kumar Das, Lecturer, Jorhat Engineering College Mrs Rupa Baruah Mrs Rajlakshmi Saikia Lahkar Mrs L Baruah Rupmala barman, AV College Jahnabi Gautam, AV College Aparajita Sharma 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. Ruma Kalita Bidyut Dihingia Md. R amin, Lecturer Nabadeep Das, Lecturer Dr Joseph Parakka Ajanta Saikia Nirmali Malakar Jatindra Baruah, Lecturer Dr Phunu Das

Linux LPI Certification Support Programme, 2007-08 We are running an ongoing support programme for young and budding ICT professional to encourage them to take Linux certification examination run by Linux Professional Institute (LPI), a vendor independent quality certification programme. We pledge to reimburse the full exam fee of the 2nd part of the LPI certification exam of any successful trainee from the Northeast India with preference to those who are from a socially disadvantaged background. In addition, we offer training material and books which can be borrowed by the trainee. We are aiming to make available a few laptops for trainee to borrow for a reasonable period for exam preparation if they have not got their own computer to practice intensively.

DISTRIBUTION OF FOSS, 2007-08

We continually access the new versions of Linux OS of popular distros and various other FOSS applications mainly for home and office computing and educational purpose. Anybody, who need latest version of any FOSS application can approach us and we will be happy to provide the required application at no cost to the individual.

SUPPORTING VOLUNTARY SECTOR, 2007-08 NGO.Net.In

This yet another of our ongoing programmes which assists the voluntary sector to build ICT capacity, efficiency and promote good governance within the voluntary sector working in Northeast India. Please see the details of the programme here at www.ngo.net.in. So far we have built quite a few websites for NGOs. In addition, we provide advice and support of the queries that we receive through the website each day. We have planned to organise workshops in 2008 for the voluntary sector to help understand the need for ICT capacity building and promote good governance including more support activities. North East Clinical Excellence Foundation (NECEF), 2007-08 This is one of our other planned initiatives primarily to build capacity of the medical professionals of the region. The NECEF was formed on 22nd November 2007 and the details are available at www.necef.in. This new initiative is at a nascent state at the moment but we hope that the NECEF will be self-sufficient and start delivering with our active facilitation.

PUBLICATION, 2007 -08

Open-Source Northeast, 2007-08 The first issue of Open-Source Northeast , our quarterly free magazine focusing on Information Literacy and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), was published on 15th December 2007, India s 60th Independence Day. The purpose of the publication is again to propagate the importance of Information Literacy and Information communication Technology (ICT). The focus on FOSS is to help readers to open up to the myriads of quality software that can help to build ICT) capacity thus facilitating information access at an affordable cost both at individual and institutional level.

INFORMATION LITERACY, 2008-09

Seminar on Information Literacy, Goalpara College, 8th August, 2008
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ACTIVITIES 2006, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 This seminar is one of our core activities targeting the college teachers and students in higher education. This year the seminar was held at Goalpara College on 8th August 2008 which was attended by about 50 participants, most of whom are college faculty members. The seminar was inaugurated by Shri Anurag Goel, Deputy Commissioner of Goalpara District and moderated by Dr Kasim Ali Ahmed, Principal, Goalpara College.
Dr Jayanta B Sarma and Mrs.Rituparna Bhattacharyya conducted the seminar covering extensively on how to use search engine to access scholarly information available on the web, critical appraisal, and plagiarism, principle of copyright and fair use. Open Access movement was discussed including the resources freely available in public domain . In his concluding remark Shri Anurag Goel emphasised the importance of information literacy for the academic community to succeed in the current competitive climate and knowledge society and appreciated the work of Prag Foundation. Principal Kasim offered the votes of thanks and distributed the certificate of participation. List of Participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Mr Anurag Goel Dr K A Ahmed Dr A B Ahmed Mr A Hussain Dr M Ahmed Mr Gobinda Kalita Mr Bhakti Medhi Ms Manisha Bhattacharyya Mr K Goswami Mr G Talukdar Dr Salim Ahmed Mr Dhrubajyoti Das Sheikh Lutfur Rahman Ms Bandana Kalita Mr Upendra Nath Deva Sarma Mr Jugabrat Das Mr Pradip Kumar Seal Ms Aparna Choudhury Mr B Das ATM Ferhad Ali A B Sarkar Ms Dhuniya Choudhury Mrs Jyotshna Das Mr Hemanta Kumar Kalita 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. Mr SP Deka Mr D Medhi Mr MA Barik Dr SN Sarma Prof. S Hussain Mr Phukan Mandal Mr Jayanta Kumar Bhrahma Mr Dhruba Jyoti Das Ms Janmani Hazarika Ms Shikha Basak Mr J I Majumdar Mr R Choudhury Ms Snigdha Das Mr S Islam Mr A Ali Ahmed Mr Abed Ali Ahmed Mr Golam Osmani Mr M Islam Mr Gakul Chandra Dev Goswami Mr Mantu Kumar Das Mr Dewan Mafijur Rahman Mr Nilambar Nath Mr Mazbul Haque Choudhury

INFORMATION LITERACY, 2009-10

Workshop on Information Literacy, 25th April, 2009, Guwahati Venue: Sri Ram Academy, Kahilipara | Date: 25th April 2009 | Delivered byDr Jayanta B Sarma We have conducted a workshop on information literacy and free and open source software (FOSS) on 25th April, 2009. Participants include workers of Sarba Sikhsa Mission, teachers from the Kahilipara locality and journalists. Participants were shown how to find, download and install FOSS using a live internet connection. Writing in Assamese using Unicode is also covered. A range of information literacy skills were shown including how to search relevant and credible information from the internet using search engines like Google. All the participants received OpenDisc CD (http://www.theopendisc.com) containing a range of useful free software (Design, Games, Internet, Multimedia, Productivity, Utilities). List of Participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Tridib Dutta Surabhi Konwer Ujjal Konwer Dipamani Baruah Jaya Romi Talukdar Matiur Rahman 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Sabera Begum Rumi Begum Mizanur Rahman Anup Baishya Monalisa Hazarika Daisy Das

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7. 8. Noorun Nahar Mitali Buragohain 15. 16. 17. Pallab Borpatra Gohain Sudip Kanta Baisistha Sameer Dutta

Workshop on Searching for Scholarly Material on the Invisible Web Venue: Department of Geography, Bajali College | 18 August, 2009 | Delivered by Dr Rituparna Bhattacharyya List of Participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. D.N. Goswami (Head of the Department) Dr Bhupendra Talukdar (Professor) Sri Sarat Ch. Talukdar (Professor) Dr Prakash Sarma (Professor) Dr Polly Vauquline (Senior Lecturer) Jyotishmoy Bora (Lecturer) Dipak Barman (Lecturer) Student Participants Namita Kalita (Masters Student) Nabanita Moitra (Masters Student) Ankurii Deka (Masters Student) Moumita Roy (Masters Student) Sukamal Roy (Masters Student) Kajal Ghoshv (Masters Student) Dhananjoy Barman (Masters Student) 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Jahanur Rahman (Masters Student) Nitai Mondal (Masters Student) Chandan Kr.Das (Masters Student) Kakali Talukdar (Undergraduate Student) Asraful Alam (Undergraduate Student) Bijit Sarma (Undergraduate Student) Samar Medhi (Undergraduate Student) Baloram Daimary (Undergraduate Student) Kamal Talukdar (Undergraduate Student) Rupam Talukdar (Undergraduate Student) Pallabi Devi (Undergraduate Student) Sajeeda Khatun (Undergraduate Student) Dulumoni Choudhury (Undergraduate Student) Bimala Mondal (Undergraduate Student) Ashok Roy Choudhury (Undergraduate Student) Rudra Singh Brahma (Undergraduate Student)

Workshop on Searching for Scholarly Material on the Invisible Web Venue: IIT, Guwahati, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences | Date: | Delivered by Dr Rituparna Bhattacharyya, PhD List of Participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Jnana Ranjan Prusty Gopal Kumar Sarma Pallavi Sharma Madhuri Saikia Kalpana Bora 6. 7. 8. 9. Rashmirekha Sarma Tanuja Kalita Rakesh Soud Kawal Deep Kaur

Interactive lecture on OpenCourseware Venue: North East India Institute of Regional Management (NERIM) | Date: 28th January 2010 | Delivered byDr Rituparna Bhattacharyya List of Participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Kirki Prakash Choudhury (MCA II) Jyotirmoy Das (MCA II) Raj Kumar Jha (MCA II) Nitul Pathak (MCA II) Prasenjit Paul (MCA II) Syed Asfquz Zaman (MCA II) Dipak Ray Chowdhury (MCA II) Arunabh Das (MCA II) Diganta Saikia (MCA II) Dhrubajit Kalita (MCA II) Atreyee Majumdar (MCA II) Kishor Jyoti Barman (MCA II) Diganta Kumar Ray (MCA II) Swapna Hazarika (MCA II) Anusmita Roy (MCA II) Don Deka (MCA II) Manoranjan Majumder (BCA VI) Debajit Kakati (BCA VI) Nayan Jyoti Chetia (BCA VI) Raj Jyoti Nath (BCA VI) Jasmine Ara Begum (BCA VI) Chandra Prakash Gupta (BCA VI) Bhaskar Bora (BCA VI) 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. 101. 102. 103. Dipshiksha Bhuyan (BCA II) Sabnam (BCA IV) Krishna Jeena Rajkhowa (BCA IV) Dharitri Lahkar (BCA IV) Rimpy Bora (BCA IV) Santana Mahanta (BCA IV) Bidyut Bikash Saikia (BCA IV) Dharitri Talukdar (BCA IV) Deepshiksha Bhorali (MCA II) Smritirekha Acharya (MCA II) Satadruna Sarma (BCA VI) Purabi Pathak (BCA VI) Barnali Kalita (BCA VI) Deepak Singha (BCA II) Probhat Deuri (BCA II) Pravangkar Boruah (BCA II) Nayan Jyoti Das (BCA II) Dhanjit Nath (BCA II) Dhanjit Nath (BCA II) Parveen Sultana (BCA II) Luna Bora BCA II Mayuri Medhi (BCA II) Manjit Nath (BCA II)

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24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. Aditya P Bhattacharyya (BCA VI) Saurav Pratim Das (BCA VI) Uddipta Das (BCA VI) Haragobinda Bora (BCA VI) Arup jyoti Kalita (BCA VI) Himanshu Kumar Nath (BCA VI) Ananta Talukdar (BCA VI) Bijoy Hazarika (BCA VI) Indrajit Kardong (BCA VI) Jitumoni Choudhury (BCA VI) Mridupawan Gogoi (BCA VI) Sanjay Chowdhury (BCA VI) Pranab Jyoti Talukdar (BCA VI) Niloy Pratim Baruah (BCA VI) Girindra Kumar Borah (BCA VI) Kongkan Kishor Deuri (BCA VI) Kallol Bezbaruah (BCA VI) Debabrat Boruah (BCA VI) Pehsan Alam Ahmed (BCA VI) Mustafizur Rahman (BCA VI) Partha jyoti Goswami (BCA VI) Alakesh Kumar Bharali (BCA VI) Pulak Jyoti Baruah (BCA VI) Priyanku Sharma (BCA VI) Sanjit Kumar Nath (BCA VI) Mridul Kumar Gogoi (BCA VI) Parthajit Borah (BCA VI) Krisan Kumar Titani (BCA VI) Mrinal Sarma (BCA VI) Miftahur Ahmed (BCA VI) Amar Jyoti Kachari (BCA VI) Kaushik Handique (BCA VI) Mridupawan Gogoi (BCA VI) Dipu Deka (BCA VI) Suman Das (BCA VI) Pranjal Das (BCA VI) Nilutpal Sarmah (BCA VI) Labar Das (BCA VI) Niranjan Hazarika (BCA VI) Kartik Chandra Das (BCA VI) Dhiman Sharma (BCA VI) Rupam Dey (BCA VI) Jyotish Phukon (BCA VI) Debasish Biswas (BCA VI) Rimpi Sutradhar (MCA II) Aditya Kalita (MCA II) Polash Goswami (MCA II) Nabjyoti Borah (BCA II) Nayan Jyoti Deka (BCA II) Jiaur Rahman (BCA II) Hiren Deka (BCA II) Animesh Medhi (BCA II) Kakul Sarma (BCA II) Bikash Barman (BCA II) Anil kumar Upadhaya (MCA VI) Pranjit Kalita (MCA VI) Priti Kapali (MCA VI) 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. 121. 122. 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. Sanjay Kumar Das (BCA II) Chiranjeeb Dutta (BCA II) Avinash Kumar (BCA II) Kongkon Mahanta (BCA II) Samir Datta (BCA II) Kaustav Gogoi (BCA II) Utpal Goswami (BCA II) Swarup Dutta (BCA II) Saugat Deshmukh (BCA II) Dhrubajyoti Baruah (BCA II) Breezy Zamal (BCA II) Anjan Borah (BCA II) Sima Chowdhary (BCA II) Syeda Shamin Shabnam (BCA II) Bhargav Jit Sharma (BCA II) Bitupan Baruah (BCA II) Kakul Sarma (BCA II) Antara Roy (MCA VI) Depanjali Das (MCA VI) Bhabesh Das (MCA VI) Md Arif Khan (MCA VI) Dipanjal Borah (MCA VI) Pranti Dutta (MCA VI) Monsumi Kakoty (MCA VI) Bandita Kalita (MCA VI) Sacheta Chakraborty (MCA VI) Kabita Borah (MCA VI) Soma Dutta (MCA VI) Kakoli Das (MCA VI) Abhinaba Chakraborty (MCA VI) Dibyajyoti Das (MCA VI) Anirban Deb (MCA VI) Teenamoni Dutta (MCA VI) Geetamoni Tamuli (MCA II) Chandamita Barman (BCA IV) Minakshi Baishya (BCA IV) Bijeta Dey (BCA IV) Chandrani Nath (BCA IV) Karabi Malakar (BCA IV) Bondita Gohain (BCA IV) Nandita Das (BCA IV) Sangeeta Phukan (BCA IV) Puja Baruah baruahp_0810@yahoo.in BCA IV Rashmi Rekha Das BCA IV Mamtaj Begum (BCA IV) Mayuri Neog (BCA IV) Madhusmita Das (BCA IV) Sneha Dutta (BCA IV) Aruna Bora (BCA IV) Harshita Sharma (BCA IV) Mary Borah (BCA IV) Ritu Tripura (BCA IV) Pallavi Gogoi (BCA IV) Sukanya Parashar (MCA II) Sudhir Sharma (MCA II) Abhijit Dey (BBaII) Tanushree Manta (BCA IV) Anita Thakuria (BCA IV)

How to Search Social Science Materials available in the Public domain Venue: Guwahati University | Date: | Delivered byDr Rituparna Bhattacharyya List of Participants
1. 2. 3. MrinaL Nath (Teacher Fellow) Asif Mehboob (PG 4th Semester) Farhaz Zebin (PG 4th Semester) 8. 9. 10. 11. Kancheng Buragohain (PG 4th Semester) Mrinal Baruah (Project Fellow) Biman Lahkar (Research Fellow) Utpal Deka (PG 4th Semester)

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4. 5. 6. 7. Priya Agarwa (PG 4th Semester) Suzan Ahmed (PG 4th Semester) Md Aftab Rehman (PG 4th Semester) Khangsembou Bungnamei (PG 4th Semester) 12. 13. 14. 15. Prasiddha Borah (PG 4th Semester) Dhrubajyoti Sahariah (Sr. Lecturer) Nityananda Deka (Research Fellow) Minakshi das (Research Fellow)

Searching for Scholarly Information Venue: Handique Girls College | Date: 4th November 2010| Delivered byDr Rituparna Bhattacharyya Organised by Prag Foundation, a workshop on Searching for Scholarly Materials on the invisible web was held in Handique College, Guwahati on 04-11-2010. The workshop covered open access resources residing within the internet, how to search specific web addresses by carefully crafted search query, and critical evaluation of the webpages and issues of copyrights and plagiarism. List of Participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Biren Sarma Manjoo Goswami Misra Madhurima Hazarika Choudhury Mausmita Devi Bitopi Sharma Manash Gogoi Meenakshi D. Mazumdar Shobnom Hazarika Ranjita Bhattacharyya Nirmali Medhi Deepandita Rajbongshi Rinti Sarma Vinita Sharma Lilu Pradhan Tara Devi Gariyashi Bordoloi Dhanashree Baruah Kritika Goswami Sweta Jain Aninidita Chanda Munmun Rani Roy Shobnom Laila Monika Devi Chetry Porshia Moirengthem Dimpi Gogoi Deepa Kumari 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. Jutika Bhuyan Meenakshi Das Nandita Pandit Juri Goswami Sanghamitra Goswami Nisha Kayfa Manashi Barua Mitali Mudai Ashmita Mazumdar Prity Barua Vinita Sharma Vinita Devi Kongkona Chakraborty Nilimpa Nizara Bora Dolly Kumari Jha Anju Kumari Sultana Elima Ahmed Sonam Jain Plavita Sharma Pallabi Barman Neelakshi Dutta Rubi Barman Ellora Das Kalpana Dawka Pallabi Gogoi Roma Das Sonali Dey

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, 2009-10

Venue: Chaaygaon | Date: 5th November 2010 | Delivered by Dr Jayanta B Sarma Organisers and office bearers of grass root organisations participated in this interactive seminar on Leadership development. List of Participants
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Sri Anandi Kalita Sri Sanjit Basak A S Siddique Sri Prabin Kalita Sri D C Boro Md Atowar Rahman Sri Bharat Kalita Sri Kamal Dewan Sri Satya Ram Soud Ejaj Saikia Sri Dipak Chandra Das Sri Padum Das Sri Diganta Kalita Sri Golap Das 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. Sri Girindra Dewan Md Maijuddin Ahmed Md Najim Ali Md Afajuddin Ahmed Sri Jagmohan Boro Sri Biren Rabha Md Mahiruddin Md Shahab Ahmed S A Choudhury Md Ohab Ali Ahmed Md Habibul Ahmed Sri Arabinda Deka Md Ismail Ali Sri Arun Nath

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We are pleased to announce that one of our long standing goals has come to fruition with the opening of a 'Skills and Enterprise Centre' at Guwahati, Assam. This is a collaborative effort of Alliance for Community Capacity Building in Northeast India, Prag Foundation and a few enterprising individuals. The centre named Op n Institut fo Skills, Ent p is and Lif lon Learnin and at present equipped with a cluster of 10 high specification PCs (Intel i3 processor/ 19 inch LED monitors) and 5 Dell laptops (Intel i5/19 inch monitor). The cluster is networked and connected to the internet.We are planning to offer a range of courses in the centre. The centre will help us to professionally carry out initiatives throughout the region. The centre will support affiliated satellite centres run by 'grass-root organisations' thus creating a regional network. We will recruit volunteers/apprentices to support our activities who will in turn benefit from e perience while working with us. We have already invested about INR
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ACTIVITIES 2006, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 8000,000 so far but the centre still needs furtherinvestment to complete unfinished internal works, buy furniture and equipment. The process of formalising this venture into a Not-for-Profit (section 25, Indian Company Act) company has been initiated so as to run the entire operation in a professional manner.
Current Services of Prag Foundation
1. Self-learning support to IT trainees who wish to study towards Linux Professional Institute (LPI) certification, a vendor independent internationally recognised qualification. We provide learning materialfrom internationally accredited agencies which the trainee can follow at his/her own pace either at home. We can even lend a Linux laptop for active earning and preparation for the examination. 2. Periodic seminar/ workshop on information literacy and information access using the internet particularly suitable for scholars and academicians in all subject areas. 3. Distribute both Window and Linux based popular Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) such as OpenOffice.org, a complete office suite alternative to MS Office, GIMP, a graphic programme alternative to Adobe, and other educational software. In addition, latest versions of popular Linux distribution are also distributed. 4. We build low cost Linux system (with optimal hardware configuration) preinstalled with popular free office and productivity software customised to suit home and office computing according to one s budget. Students, teachers and entrepreneurs on tight budget can avail this service if want to bypass the middlemen. You pay only the hardware component cost plus a small service fee. 5. Conduct regular workshops on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) applications e.g., introduction to openoffice.org, graphics, multimedia, games and educational applications aimed at general users. 6. Conduct regular workshops on GNU/Linux covering introduction to GNU/Linux covering configuration, program installation, and update and using the tools, cross-installation of several GNU/Linux distribution like Ubuntu, Fedora and SuSE, comparison of Linux and Windows, localization, and career opportunity. 7. Publication of Open-Source Northeast , a publication on Information Literacy and FOSS .

Trustees, Prag Foundation

1. Dr Jayanta B Sarma, MBBS (Guwahati), MSc (Manchester), FRCPath (London) 2. Mr Dwijen Sarma, MA (Guwahati) 3. Mr Arup Misra, B.A (Guwahati), Master in Music (Bhatkhande)

Executives
Chief Exceutive: Dr Jayanta B Sarma (jayanta.sarma@accb.org.uk) Director of Studies: Dr Rituparna Bhattacharyya (rituparna.bhattacharyya@accb.org.uk) Joint Director of Studies: Dr Polly Vauquline (polly.vauquline@accb.org.uk)

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