Further, a good number of preparatory activities have been initiated making AEPSA operational in a short time. Broadly, these include :(i) initiated AEPSA as TAAS Program to begin with,(ii) Identified the Country Resource Persons representing professional platforms, as prime promoters in the respective country,(iii) Consituted AEPSA Advisory Committee of eminent experts, (iv) Developed AEPSA Brochure (including vision, mission, objectives, activities, organogram, etc. (v) Developed Draft Country Extension Profiles(C-AEPs) for the Phase-I Countries and (vi) Identified various categories of the members and fee structure for launching membership drive and mobilization of the funds.
ICT connects, internet platforms, and Social Media applications are crucial in the current dissemination strategies. Accordingly initiation of this AEPSA Website is an important steps. I am sure, it would facilitate information sharing on the progress and performance of AEPSA. Also, it would enable obtaining updates and productive inputs to make AEPSA visible regionally and globally.
Broadly the AEPSA Websites features on the menu bar are Home page, Who are we, Membership, Events, Publications, Media, Links & Contacts. There would be Static and Dynamic features and adequete scope for coverning extension innovations, success stories, extension events, regional and country specific dialogues and uploading relavent pictures and videoes making it attractive and intresting to the stakeholders.
I hope this website gets adequate visibility in the partner countries, in the South asia region and globally. It is expected that the stakeholders would benefit greatly enahancing the overall vision, mission, objectives, activities, growth sustainbility of the AEPSA. Finally, the stakeholders, members,users are requested to provide updates to make it relevant and much appreciated as we progress. I complement the team AEPSA for moving forward on use of this website.
I wish all the best
Dr.R.S.Paroda
Chairman, TAAS & AEPSA Advisory Committee
