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Dr. Savithri Singh is also a strong supporter of the Free Software movement. Under her leadership her college has switched to Linux operating system. Her college is the first under the University of Delhi that has attained this position. She also attempts to introduce free and open source software to the new members of WikiEducator community.

He is among the prominent academicians who promote WikiEducator from the very beginning of its launch. He strongly believes that the technology enabled learning is a great educational delivery method where we can create one-to-one environment for learners. Elearning is always an excitement to Dr. Pankaj. He always introduces himself as Wiki Pankaj and wants fellow WEs to prefix Wiki with their names while introducing themselves. This shows his deep-rooted commitment and attachment to the project.

Dr. Pankaj has created an online Video tutorial for WikiEducator. Another very exciting and important project he had initiated on WikiEducator is Handbook of Open Universities project. His other ongoing WE projects are Bangladesh Open School Project , Scenerio Based eLearning Project and Tutorial on tables. He is also actively involved in Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate project.

Dr. Pankaj Khare is always very keen to promote the use of WikiEducator in the academic events that are being either conducted by him or attended by him. In IGNOU he has used WikiEducator for a couple of academic projects and training programmes. He provides online support to the WE community members to learn wikimedia skills as well as to develop content pages.

Apart from WikiEducator he is an active participant of Development Gateway communities, Solution Exhange communities of UNDP, GKP Net, Open Learn of the Open Univeristy of UK etc. In all these online forums Anil is always very keen to promote WikiEducator. Links to his thoughts on a wide veriety of subjects are available from his user page. He calls himslef as a Free and Open thought Engine.

Anil's major contributions on WikiEducator can be viewed at:

• India Click on 'History' of this page
• Qualification Framework
• Free content for Post Graduate Programme in HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
• Commonwealth Computer Navigator's Certificate

He is also contributing to Lifelong Learning for Farmers project of Commonwealth of Learning and organized two WikiEducator workshops in Colombo Srilanka and Madurai, India to develop Agricultural Open Education Resources on WikiEducator along with Agricultural scientists, teachers and farmers. He has also provided support in conducting WikiEducator workshops in London (during the Pan Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning at University of London) and in New Delhi. As a devoted WikiArtisan he performs network management functions & participates in network development projects. Above all he is a true WikiNeighbour, encouraging all new members.

Dr. Ramakrishnan joined WikiEducator community in April 2008. From the very beginning of his association with WE he strives hard to build strong presence of WikiEducator among both academicians and students. Dr. Ramakrishnan has organized launching of WikiEducator India Team slogan A computer literate, internet enabled teacher is better equipped to create nation-building generation and off line campaign of L4C Workshop on 5th Sept. 2008, on the occasion of Teachers Day at Sri JCBM (Jagatguru Chandrashekhara Bharati Memorial) College, Shringeri, Karnataka. More than 500 students and teachers attended the function. A Prayer Song also was released.

At the UGC Sponsored State Level Two Day Seminar on New Vistas in the Teaching-Learning of Communicative English, organized at Sri Mahaveera College, Moodbidri, Karnataka on 26-27th Sept. 2008, Dr. Ramakrishnan has presented a Paper titled "Towards Greater Teacher Empowerment" in which he highlighted the relevant role of WikiEducator Community and it was well received. He has created a WikiEducator related topic for the doctoral thesis titled ELT Specific Computer Literacy and Internet Enabling : A Study and Survey. The candidate, Sri Naveen ( Thenavina ) has registered this title in Dravidian University, A.P.,India under his guideship. Probably it will be the first topic given to a doctoral thesis with specific study requirement on WikiEducator.

It is Dr. Ramakrishnan's repeated demand and strong initiative for a national event for WikiEducator community paved the way for the formation of India Chapter of WikiEducator. Dr. Ramakrishnan strongly believes that the wiki environment is conducive to achieving the ideals of being human globally.

Her favourite quote from Rg-Veda "Getting together is beginning. Staying together is progress. Working together is success" that she has put as the title of her user page alone is sufficient to reveal her inner views as well as the radiance of sincerity and the strength of initiatives. She is innovative and always very keen to observe and practice new knowledge.

In the WE community Dr. Gita is a very effective community builder. She always finds time to help the community members as well as review the contents that are being developed on wikieducator. She has conducted one L4C workshop in her college and will now conduct two online eL4C (EL4C26 & EL4C27) workshops.

She was one of the very active contributors of Commonwealth Computer Navigators Course (CCNC), starting from February 2007. CCNC is an officially announced ODL development project on WikiEducator.

Now she is very actively engaged in contributing to Commonwealth Youth Programme Regional Centre for Africa CYP RCA space on WikiEducator.

Featured WE: Dr. Sarita kumar
Dr. Sarita Kumar is an Associate Professor in Zoology in Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi. She is in teaching profession since 1990. She is also very actively involved in curriculum development, review and editing work at NCERT, Training of PGT teachers at SCERT, writing books at the school levels (primary and secondary) and developing e-learning content materials at college levels. Dr. Sarita became a WikiEducator family member through the face to face L4C workshop conducted at Acharya Narendra Dev College during October, 2008. Now she is one of the most active WikiEducator Ambassadors. She has facilitated six face to face workshops in New Delhi, India. Apart from the facilitation of face to face workshops, she is also supporting various OER as well as project management initiatives that are being taken up by WikiEducator community. She is also very keen to provide online support to the new members of our WikiEducator community. Featured WE: Dr. Dilip Barad Dr. Dilip P. Barad holds Ph.D. degree from Saurashtra University and M.A. from Bhavnagar University where he teaches in the Department of English as a senior lecturer.He has recently (in Dec 2008) cleared GSET (Gujarat State Eligibility Test) for the eligibility for lecturership. He has vast experience of teaching communication skills to the students of Business Management and Commerce. He taught Business Correspondence and Communication Skills at NRV Institute of Business Management and JJCET Commerce College (Saurashtra University), Junagadh (Gujarat) for 10 years. He has presented research papers in several international and national seminars/conferences and has also published research papers in journals and magazines. He has done his Ph.D. research on Thomas Hardy and his areas of interest are CALL, Literary Criticism, use of ICT in TELL, Business Correspondence, Communication Skills, English Language and Literature. He has successfully completed C.I.C.(Certificate in Computing) from IGNOU, so he has first hand experience of distance education and have good exposure to SLM and OERs. He has applied for counselling for English course under Ambedkar Open University. and IGNOU courses for B.A., M.A. and other English Language Courses. Being co-ordinator of fully computerized, LAN based language lab (which runs under Ambedkar Open University.), he has good experience of working for Open universities and he is associated with text book & material production for the same courses. Having a wealth of experience and exemplary credentials Dilip P. Barad, Ph.D has steadily increased his participation in WikiEducator since July 2008. Dr. Barad is also an excellent ambassador for WikiEducator as he frequently speaks of the benefits of accessing and in contributing to WikiEducator. Dr. Barad has an excellent user page that showcases how text, photos and rich media can be used to portray information and ideas. The Userpage of Dr. Dilip P. Barad was selected as the UPE award winner for March 2009.