Dear Friends,
Greetings from IFFCO !!
We had successfully completed the first Regional Seminar and first Meeting of the ICA Cooperative Research Committee for Asia & Pacific in the month of October,2009. I take this opportunity to congratulate you all for your active participation and making this event a success.
As I had mentioned during the meeting that this first Meeting is only a curtain raiser and a pointer to the researchers for the events they wish to undertake. Accordingly, now I am inviting your comments and suggestions for taking up future activities in this Region by the Research Committee of Asia & Pacific.
As you may be aware that the next Regional Assembly of Asia & Pacific is scheduled to be held in the beginning of September, 2010 at Beijing, China. The Vice Chair of the Committee Mr. Akira Kurimoto, who because of his pre-engagement could not come to FMDI, Gurgaon to participate in the concluded meeting, had sizeable contribution in shaping up the constitution of this Research Committee and it is his desire (which we also aspire) that this Committee should meaningfully contribute to active research helpful to guide the governance and activities of cooperative societies in this Region. Mr. Kurimoto in his mail to me has made his intentions known that this time it should be a qualitative Research Conference and Committee Meeting at Beijing, China in coming September 2010. Friends, this is a good opportunity for the researchers to present their papers at Beijing. I, therefore, invite all of you to post your views and possible topics/themes which could be suggested for the ensuing Research Conference. For the sake of brevity, I would suggest that you may kindly not suggest more than three topics/themes. After knowing the views, I, in consultation with Mr. Kurimoto and Steering Committee, will arrive at a consensus to decide the topic/theme for the Research Conference to be held at Beijing.
There has been some delay in communication to all of you which had occurred as I was travelling to different places. The Geneva ICA General Assembly has been a roaring success. The main theme was Climate Change and Alternate Source of Energy. Prof. Jeremy Rifkin excelled and regaled every one with his spell bound lecture. The ICA Global Board has been reconstituted in which the Chairman of IFFCO was re-elected as Director securing second-highest votes. From our Region Asia & Pacific this time we have 6 Directors out of 23 Directors on the ICA Global Board. All the six Directors are committed for the betterment of the cause of cooperation globally and specifically for this Region. The details of various events concluded in ICA General Assembly at Geneva, are posted on the ICA Website: http://www.ica.coop/. You may like to read more about it.
This is the time to make up for the lost time in communication. Therefore, I request all of you to promptly respond and send your suggestions as early as possible.
With cooperative greetings,
Gopal N. Saxena
Greetings from IFFCO !!
We had successfully completed the first Regional Seminar and first Meeting of the ICA Cooperative Research Committee for Asia & Pacific in the month of October,2009. I take this opportunity to congratulate you all for your active participation and making this event a success.
As I had mentioned during the meeting that this first Meeting is only a curtain raiser and a pointer to the researchers for the events they wish to undertake. Accordingly, now I am inviting your comments and suggestions for taking up future activities in this Region by the Research Committee of Asia & Pacific.
As you may be aware that the next Regional Assembly of Asia & Pacific is scheduled to be held in the beginning of September, 2010 at Beijing, China. The Vice Chair of the Committee Mr. Akira Kurimoto, who because of his pre-engagement could not come to FMDI, Gurgaon to participate in the concluded meeting, had sizeable contribution in shaping up the constitution of this Research Committee and it is his desire (which we also aspire) that this Committee should meaningfully contribute to active research helpful to guide the governance and activities of cooperative societies in this Region. Mr. Kurimoto in his mail to me has made his intentions known that this time it should be a qualitative Research Conference and Committee Meeting at Beijing, China in coming September 2010. Friends, this is a good opportunity for the researchers to present their papers at Beijing. I, therefore, invite all of you to post your views and possible topics/themes which could be suggested for the ensuing Research Conference. For the sake of brevity, I would suggest that you may kindly not suggest more than three topics/themes. After knowing the views, I, in consultation with Mr. Kurimoto and Steering Committee, will arrive at a consensus to decide the topic/theme for the Research Conference to be held at Beijing.
There has been some delay in communication to all of you which had occurred as I was travelling to different places. The Geneva ICA General Assembly has been a roaring success. The main theme was Climate Change and Alternate Source of Energy. Prof. Jeremy Rifkin excelled and regaled every one with his spell bound lecture. The ICA Global Board has been reconstituted in which the Chairman of IFFCO was re-elected as Director securing second-highest votes. From our Region Asia & Pacific this time we have 6 Directors out of 23 Directors on the ICA Global Board. All the six Directors are committed for the betterment of the cause of cooperation globally and specifically for this Region. The details of various events concluded in ICA General Assembly at Geneva, are posted on the ICA Website: http://www.ica.coop/. You may like to read more about it.
This is the time to make up for the lost time in communication. Therefore, I request all of you to promptly respond and send your suggestions as early as possible.
With cooperative greetings,
Gopal N. Saxena
Chairperson,
ICA- AP Research Committee
Thanks for your post requesting the researchers to come up with their views on the possible themes related to coming Beijing conference.I think in the recent economic crisis the cooperatives have emerged triumphant because of their strong adherence to cooperative values.As far as I re-collect there has not been conferences organised recently with sole focus on values.Cooperative values give a strong distinctiveness to cooperatives.This is a major strength as compared to other commercial organisations.So,why should we not keep a major research theme revolving around our strength area?So,I suggest 'COOPERATIVE VALUES IN THE CHANGING ECONOMIC SCENARIO' as a major theme area.The papers may revolve around this major theme.
ReplyDeleteAnother possible theme may be based on supreme reality which cooperatives are facing today.They have to shed their policy of isolation,and forge strategic partnerships with other organisations even if they are not in the cooperative fold.What should be the broad parameters in this regard?Should there be changes in the legislative arena?What can be the areas where the cooperatives need to forge strategic partnerships?Should cooperative diversification be based on their forging strategic partnerships with other organisations ?So,I suggest 'FORGING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS FOR COOPERATIVES' as a possible major theme.We can chalk out several sub-themes based on this. Sanjay Verma,Nodal Officer,COOP-CONNECT,NCUI Mob-9871146034 [See COOP=CONNECT section on NCUI website www.ncui.net]