Gauri Salokhe

Information Management Officer at FAO-UN

Rome Area, Italy

Current
  • Information Management Officer at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Past
  • Program Assistant at Continuing Education Center
Education
  • Asian Institute of Technology
  • Mahawithayalai Thammasat
  • RIS
Connections
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Industry
Information Services
Websites

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

  • Information Management Officer

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Political Organization industry)

    February 2002Present (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 2000January 2002 (1 year 5 months)

  • Research Associate

    Asian Institute of Technology

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

    May 2000August 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 1997May 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 1996June 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 , 19982000

  • Mahawithayalai Thammasat

    MEng. , Industrial Engineering , 19941998

  • RIS

    19891994


Additional Information

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Gauri Salokhe’s Interests:

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

Gauri Salokhe’s Groups:

  •    IAALD
  •    Knowledge Management Experts
  •    KM-Forum
  •    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
  •    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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