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Two decades of experience in corporate,NGOs and media sector. Worked extensively with grassroot NGOs. Active writer and theatre activist. Looking for challenging positions in development sectors in Karnataka. Extremely fluent with written and spoken Kannada, English and Hindi. Completed Masters in Kannada Literature through Karnataka state open university. Willing to travel short term. |
 Contact Ramesh Gururajarao
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Area of Expertise: |
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Communications, IT, Media, Knowledge Management, Editor
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Infrastructure, Technology, Engineering, Science
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Professional Experience: |
Non-Profit Sector
EQUATIONS (Equitable Tourism Options) from March 1996 – June 1998
EQUATIONS is a research and documentation center for tourism studies. EQUATIONS seek to situate the tourism critique within the overall development debate. EQUATIONS activities include documentation, publications, research and supporting individuals and groups involved in concerted action on tourism concerns.
Role - Program Coordinator
Responsibilities
Major task was to build up extensive network in Karnataka among academia, grass root level organizations, Also in-charge of the issue of research on child prostitution issue, which cuts across the geographical boundaries of the states.
Some of the major movements / accomplishments involved were:
Struggle of Adivasis (Jenu Kuruba) at Nagarahole against a five star resort which was planned in Nagarahole in the name of ecotourism. Provided Campaign Information support to the entire movement. The documentations which we provided by us proved to be one of the strong points for the grass root organizations who won the battle
Fishing community’s struggle at Majali, Karwar, against loss of their land and their access to fishing at Arabian Sea due to a beach resort which was planned. Here again, we built strong network of activists and media representatives to make sure that the justice was provided to the fishing community.
Part of interactive sessions with government in terms of critiquing Karnataka State Tourism policy and created documentation towards sustainable development with tourism being part of the development debate.
Built strong networks among academia, media, thiktanks, fishing communities, Adivasi communitie and grass root NGOs in the locations like Sirsi, Banavasi, Mangalore, Uppunda, Udupi, Mysore, Gokarna and other locations where tourism was considered as one of the key economy makers.
Conducted a ground reality check for CRY on Migration of Children from Karnataka to Goa, where the children were forced to get into child prostitution, which, once again is, the result of irrational tourism activities.
Initiated discussions with academia in terms of sensitize the student community about sustainable model of tourism and address tourism as part of the development debate.
Documentation in Kannada, translation of English documents to Kannada, articles and papers presentations on issues related to tourism and working towards sustainable model of tourism
Handling the internal policy matters at EQUATIONS like internal review meetings, assisting the organizers of different meetings within the organization. This helped the team to have the meetings more interactive than being just a monologues and update sessions.
MEDIA
CITY TAB (1990 – 91)
A weekly tabloid in Bangalore and quite a popular tabloid at Chennai
Role
Assistant Reporter/ Staff Reporter
Responsibilities
As an Assistant Reporter and later Staff Reporter, I was assigned to do the coverage of films a
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Education: |
B.Sc, Course completed. I could not obtain the degree due to family situations.
Diploma in Computer Applications
Masters in Kannada Literature from Karnataka State Open University in 2009
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Affiliations and Achievements: |
Silver Recognition Award (December 2008) – A prestigious award across Unisys for contribution in the capacity of a Design Team member at the leadership level
India Recognition Award / Individual Contributor Award (July 2010) – One of the first few recipients in Unisys India after the award was introduced.
Team Recognition Award (February 2012) – This award was in recognition of being a crucial contributor in terms of event management, during Cloud 20/20 Version 3.0, a national level research paper contest and seminar
Valuable Contribution Award (November 2012) – This award was in recognition of my contribution as Event Manager in UniLight 2012, a unique event on Knowledge Management
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