[Sigiii-l] Congratulations to Winners of the 2007 ASIST SIG IIIInternational Paper Contest

[pku at nic.in]

"Heartiest Congratulations" to 2007 SIG III eighth International Paper
Contest Winners  organized by  ASIST. It was my unique and valuable
professional experience to interact and participate in the last year ASIST
Conference at Austin, Texas during November 2006 as one of the paper
contest winner. Paricipation was full of professional papers and
colleagues.

cheers

Pradip Kumar Upadhyay

2006 SIG III International Paper Contest Winner,
Fulbright Scholar (India)(2002-03),
Officer Incharge Library
National Informatics Centre(NIC)
New Delhi(India)



>
> Dear All,
>
> It is my great pleasure to announce the results of the eighth
> International
> Paper Contest organized by the American Society for Information Science &
> Technology (ASIST) Special Interest Group on International Information
> Issues
> (SIG III). Thanks to Julian, Judy and their jury team for making it
> happen!
>
> Our six winners this year are:
>
> 1. Shampa Paul, India.
> "A case study of e-governance initiatives in India."
>
> 2. Soumitra Sharma, India.
> "Exploring best practices in public-private partnerships (ppp) in
> e-government
> through select Asian case-studies."
>
> 3. Rama Devi, India.
> "Towards promotion and dissemination of IK. A case of NIRD."
>
> 4. M.Masoom Raza Amar Nath, India.
> "Use of IT in University Libraries of Punjab, Chandigarh and Himachal
> Pradesh :
> A Comparative study."
>
> 5. Elsa Barber, Silvia Pisano, Sandra Romagnoli, Verónica Parsiale and
> Gabriela
> De Pedro y Carolina Gregui, Argentina.
> "User Interface of Web Opacs in Mercosur Member and Associate Countries."
>
> 6. Medha Joshi, India.
> "Digital resources for information accessibility at the point of care: an
> overview of Library Information System at Tata Memorial Hospital."
>
> The theme of this year?s contest was "Joining Research and Practice:
> Social
> Computing and Information Science."
>
> The principal authors of each of the six winning papers will be awarded a
> two-year individual membership to ASIST. In addition, the leading two
> winners,
> Shampa Paul and Soumitra Sharma will be awarded a minimum of $1,000 each
> to
> attend the October 18-25, 2007 ASIST Annual Meeting, in Milwaukee,
> Wisconsin.
>
> These winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will
> be
> considered for publication by Elsevier's International Information and
> Library
> Review, which is edited by Toni Carbo.
>
> Thanks to the generous donations from participants of the October 6 2006
> Kenya
> Embassy Fundraiser, Elsevier, and many of our previous organization and
> individual donors. Your efforts have enabled us to continue with this
> International Contest. Further fundraising effort