Profile and Core Competencies Directory Fellows of NVA Volume 2 - August 2007 Volume 2 - August 2007 Volume M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation 3rd Cross Street, Institutional Area Taramanai, Chennai - 600 113, INDIA Tel: +91-44-2254 1229, 2254 1698 Fax: +91-44-2254 1319 email:
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[email protected] [email protected] www.mssrf.org; www.mssrf-nva.org Design and Printing by: AMM Screens, Chennai. NVA FELLOWS Foreword The Jametji Tata National Virtual Academy for Rural Prosperity (NVA) represents in the words of our former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam “the celebration of rural India’s core competence”. The Academicians are grassroot workers who have mastered ICT for addressing their day-to-day needs. In addition they serve as Master Trainers and Managers of the Village Knowledge Centres and Village Resource Centres. During 2007 Fellows from abroad have also been inducted so that there could be mutual learning among grassroot ICT leaders in our region. The first foreign Fellows of NVA numbering 25 come from Afghanistan, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Nigeria. The Academy now has 1010 Fellows who are the torch bearers of the Rural Knowledge Revolution. 593 of the Fellows are males and 417 are women.