Dr. Simon Hodson Chair, European Commission’s Expert Group on FAIR Data, which is preparing a report and guidelines on how to make FAIR data a reality; Co-chair, GEO Data Sharing Working Group, to which CODATA has made a longterm contribution; Simon is also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Dryad Data Repository, a not-for-profit initiative to make the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable; and he sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of CESSDA ERIC, the European data infrastructure for the social sciences. He was co-chair of the OECD Global Science Forum and CODATA Project on Sustainable Business Models for Research Data Repositories. Simon has a strong research background, as well as considerable project and programme management experience: from 2009 to 2013, as Programme Manager, he led two successful phases of Jisc's innovative Managing Research Data programme in the UK. |
Ms Neeta Verma Under her leadership, NIC has launched first National Cloud for Government spanning across its National Data centre to provide state of art, agile, on demand ICT Infrastructure to government departments for delivery of Citizen Services. Apart from authoring the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites, She has written large number of technical papers published in National and International books and journals. She has been an invited speaker at many Scientific and Technical Seminars across the globe and received many significant awards to her credit. Email : dg[at]nic[dot]in |
Kiran Pandey Email : kiran[at]cseindia[dot]org |
Richard Mahapatra Email : richard[at]cseindia[dot]org |
Rajit Sengupta Email : rajit[at]cseindia[dot]org |
Sunita Malhotra Information Specialist, World Bank smalhotra@worldbank.org |
Dr D D Basu Debadatta Basu joined Central Pollution Control Board in 1976 after completing Master of Science in Chemistry from West Bengal, India. He further obtained Diploma in Environmental Science and Technology (equivalent to MS) from Delft University, the Netherlands. He also did his PhD from Jadavpur University. He was resource person for a workshop on UN sponsored programme on Universal Codification at Johanesburg, South Africa. He has published around thirty technical documents and papers in various journals in India and abroad. After retiring from Central Government, he joined Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi as an advisor for training in India and abroad. basu@cseindia.org |
Subhojit Goswami As a member of the web team of Down To Earth, Subhojit experiments with content formats for better presentation of stories and handles social media assets with the aim of bringing more online audiences into the magazine’s fold. He holds a Master’s Degree in English Literature. |
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