Gauri Salokhe

Current

• Knowledge and Information Management Officer at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Past

• Information Management Officer at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Guest Researcher at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Research Associate at Asian Institute of Technology

• Industrial Trainee at Nestle Foods Company Ltd.
• Program Assistant at Continuing Education Center

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Education

• Asian Institute of Technology
• Mahawithayalai Thammasat
• RIS

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Gauri Salokhe’s Summary

* Work on information and knowledge management projects at FAO

Gauri Salokhe’s Specialties:

information management, knowledge management, knowledge sharing

Gauri Salokhe’s Experience

• Knowledge and Information Management Officer

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  (Government Agency; International Affairs industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

  * Assist in the development of the organization’s strategy on information and knowledge management, with specific emphasis on knowledge sharing.
  * Regularly prepare monitoring and progress reports on information and knowledge management activities.
  * Organise FAO’s first Knowledge Share Fair with partners (IFAD, WFP, CGIAR). (http://www.sharefair.net)
  * Participate in the working group for sharing FAO’s best/good practices and identifying good/best practices in knowledge management.
  * Design, organize and facilitate knowledge sharing workshop in collaboration with CGIAR ICT-KM Program and FAO’s Human Resource Division.
  * Participate in meetings on knowledge management at UN-wide level and collaborating with partners working on knowledge management issues.
  * Assist and participate in the organization of meetings of the Interdepartmental Working Group (IDWG) on knowledge management.
  * Review and support the development of FAO Thematic Knowledge Networks.

• Information Management Officer

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

  (Political Organization industry)

  February 2002 — July 2009 (7 years 6 months)

  Development of Semantic Standards
  * Development of information exchange standards in the agricultural domain for: documents, learning resources, projects, experts, organizations, news and events.
  * I am managing projects on Crop Wild Relative, Language and Organizations Ontologies.
  
  Establishing Networks with partners
  * I am responsible for the maintenance and content management of AIMS Website.
  * I serve as an advisor to internal and external partners who apply FAO standards and tools.
  
  Directory Services and Digital Libraries
  * I am responsible for management of AgriFeeds.org
  * Design, management and overseeing implementation of tools for creating metadata using established standards. This involves the DLIO Metamaker, Organizations Metamaker, and Events Metamaker.
  * I am responsible for project management and semantics development of the future AGRIS Database.
  
  Knowledge management
  * I am part of the team working on Knowledge Management Strategy and Roadmap for FAO.

• Guest Researcher

  Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 5 months)

• Research Associate

  Asian Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)

  My main task was to organize the International Conference on Production Research (SPECIAL ICPR – 2000) for over 200 participants. Other tasks included writing documentation on the conference, course work of faculty etc.

• Industrial Trainee

  Nestle Foods Company Ltd.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Food Production industry)

  April 1997 — May 1997 (2 months)

  This was a training undertaken to complete Industrial Engineering course. My main task was to work on the Inventory program for the Engineering department warehouse. This involved the study of parts and their specifications, and then the inputting of data into the inventory program. This was a training period in which I worked in the Engineering department to learn about the Industrial equipment such as boilers, coolers, water purification, supply and transport, and other industrial systems used in the factory.

• Program Assistant

  Continuing Education Center

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  April 1996 — June 1996 (3 months)

  My main task was to organize the training course “Management of Training Centers”, for approximately 30 participants for 30 days. The task involved preparation of training materials and course work, organization and handling of the Course.

Gauri Salokhe’s Education

• Asian Institute of Technology

  MEng. , Information Management , 1998 — 2000

• Mahawithayalai Thammasat

  MEng. , Industrial Engineering , 1994 — 1998

• RIS

  1989 — 1994

Additional Information

Gauri Salokhe’s Interests:

information management, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, capacity building and training

Gauri Salokhe’s Groups:

•    IAALD
•    Knowledge Management Experts
•    KM-Forum
•    United Nations Staff
•    Open Space Technology
•    KM Edge
•    KM4Dev
•    Web2forDev - Participatory Web 2.0 for Development
•    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations current and former employees
•    United Nations (UN) - Open Link
•    Country Information Exchange in Food and Agriculture
•    EFITA

Gauri Salokhe’s Honors:

PTS Scholarship to Portugal, Sponsored by Postgraduate Technological Studies Programme, granted by the European Commission.

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